Much missed through Virus

Just not having that nagging concern behind everything I do, COVID

I miss trying on glasses and being able to put them back on the rack rather than in the tray you’re having to carry so they can be disinfected.

Your post applies to me too BugBertha. Can’t get an appointment for love nor money.

Sorry BigBertha

Our surgery has a system where you state your name etc a door opens, you enter a room, temperature taken then the inner door opens. Or doesn't! Sometimes people don't know how to face the temperature "machine".
Especially older folk. And you can't bring anyone with you. I spent about ten minutes recently trying to help someone through the window and more time via intercom getting an actual person to come. Long queue, time wasted. I wonder what the staff are doing.

I miss going to the cinema and can't quite bring myself to start going again. But I hope I do.

I miss choir practice. This fell together with our conductor announcing that she was giving up, so everything is up in the air. We are a church choir so we have a couple of commitments coming up. At the moment, we are allowed to sing in church, but that might change back to no singing between now and Christmas.

I feel so much happier for having socially distanced chats with fellow dog walkers, something I wasn’t doing before being vaccinated. I can’t imagine what the last year would have been like without forums and Facebook etc.

Taking the motohome to France and then into Spain. I know we could but I’m not very good at jumping through all the hoops needed to enable this ?

Miss going to the theatre. Meeting a big group of friends but mostly miss feeling safe wherever I am and whatever I am doing.

Making travel plans without any stress.
Face to face meetings.
Not worrying about every little illness just in case …..
Seeing my grandchildren enjoying school with no restrictions.

Singing

I agree with most everything said here, though I am not one for holidaying or gyms,etc.

but I think spontaniety (if only I could spell it) looked it up, checked it. still it is underlined in red! duh!

so I miss my active brain, it is not so frisky! not sure if grieving or the lockups affected me in so many ways..

but oh yes, BigBerthal
I so agree,, what does a doctor look like? I have been very healthy, but now,, so many different things , but can`t see a doctor, and come on!!! who wants to divulge our problems to a receptionist, cos that is what we have to do, discuss with a receptionist what we want to talk to doctor about, and maybe, JUST MAYBE need a physical examination???

and the receptionist decides if you can have a TELEPHONE appt.. I have really lost my trust and everything in doctors, well not the hospital doctors! what makes them so different?

rant over.

Travelling abroad: 4 trips cancelled during past year and a half.
Meeting friends and family, although now that has eased off.
Generally choosing to do things spontaneously.

I lost 18 months of my life...

Going where I want when I want. Specially visiting family. Covid made me realise what was important to me and what wasn’t.

I miss live music and long face to face evenings of relaxed conversation with a groups of friends. I think the loss of the latter affects me most as the ability to just relax listen and chat seems to have deserted me.

I miss freedom and spontaneity. I hate having to be constantly vigilant, and the stress attached to even the smallest of things - opening the door to the postman, getting a haircut etc etc

Hugging friends and family

Singing and Choir practice

Painting with my Art Group

Not being able to see a doctor or even get a telephone appt so having to juggle all my health conditions on my own. Could not have coped without the online support groups I belong to.

Trips to the cinema and theatre.

honestly I didn't miss anything so I guess i am blessed. I worried about my family but don't worry so much now that they are all vaccinated except the youngest. I have only used real masks when I went to get vaccinated, other than that I have used light scarves which get used once and washed.

Apart from seeing family nothing really. I've been my husband's carer for 30 years so gave up lots of things over the years and my GP has been fine, I've had phone consultations and seen him in person more than once. My dentist is the same. Queuing at the pharmacy can be a bit of a pain but not a daily event so not much of an issue.

I was given some antibiotics that didn’t agree with me brought me out in lumps all over my body. I rang my drs up and 6hrs later drs rang me. my blood pressure was crazy high and crazy low I was blacking out so rang 111 they sent an ambulance to me which rushed me into emergency and I ended up having to have them flush out my body by drip. Spent few days in hospital. Anyway when dr rang a nurse answer my phone and told him I’d being admitted in. Dr rung me when got home and said I should have said I wasn’t feeling too good. I said I did ask receptionist. She said I will get dr to call you. So I’m now sitting with badly bruised shoulder and broken ribs after a fall with the blackouts I was having.

Going overseas to see my family. Their country won't let us in from UK, and I don't think I could face all the travel stresses at the moment, despite being double vaccinated. (Airport hassles, Covid tests, related paperwork, increased risk of Covid contact....)

I guess I miss the planning and anticipation - for visiting family, travel, meeting friends- having things to look forward to- as well as actually being able to do these things!

I'm missing the feeling of just doing as I like. The mask wearing, hand washing, queuing is tedious, but it has to be done. I've rescheduled tickets for a show on the 30th Sept and I'm usually so looking forward to the night out with my friends, but there's this dark cloud hanging over it all. Although by the look of things I'd just better try and get used to it all being like this for the foreseeable, its a right pain in the butt though.

Family, as I am one of many, who still haven't been able to visit or them travel to us from the U.S and OZ
Almost 2 years now, since I saw either of my daughters and their families