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SubscribeHi there everyone
I've not posted before but felt so fed up today I'm hoping to use the hive mind to improve my mood.
I'm approaching 60, single parent for the last 15 years after a long unhappy marriage. Currently I'm working 5 short days a week in a stressful health care role, whilst caring for my elderly parents, mum is terminally ill with breast cancer, and my 2 adult DC at home because they are ASD.
I have been really careful with Covid precautions and have successfully worked through all the lock-downs to keep our very vulnerable patients in the unit free from this virus.
I was tested at work as usual on Friday and tested negative. Started to feel increasingly unwell over the weekend so got a drive through test on Sunday and was notified by text that I was positive on Monday morning.
I feel pretty grim, bad cough, aches and fatigue, hoping that the vaccination I had 10 days ago will mean that avoid a hospital admission.
My problem is that I am really annoyed about catching this, I have a background studying microbiology and have taken all precautions possible whilst continuing to work and care for my family.
I'm fuming with people who don't wear masks, my neighbours are still having parties every Friday and in the supermarket locally I have seen staff members not wearing masks (I'm aware they may have a health exemptions) but what about the gangs of teenagers hanging around on the streets? The people who wear masks incorrectly?,
I have potentially risked the health of all my colleagues and patients (hopefully the PPE will help prevent any transmission)
Cheer me up Gransnetters please any funny stories greatly appreciated or cat photos are equally acceptable 2 of my terrors are attached.
Alison333
Not a grannyyet1234 you have done your very best, now it's time for you to focus on yourself and getting better.
Don't know about your attitude to guinea pigs, but 'David the Lodger' is gorgeous!
Thank you! I will let David know ??
CrazyH My toddler GD does the same, we have to wedge the fridge door closed when she visits. She actually managed to turn my boiler completely off last time she visited!
Toddlers eh? ❤️
At least you doing everything right.I just had my test negative though I do have aches and pains and tiredness and nausea.we will all get idiots in this day and age and this will keel us from leaving lockdown. I think there should be a curfew like other countries.but we are getting the vaccine out although it will take time. Stay indoorsindoor and get some me time
Hi everyone, sorry for not replying to you all individually but WOW! Thank you all so much for the lovely photos. So many wonderful pictures of much loved pets, and thank you also for the lovely words. I am okay so far coughing, a little breathless if I try and do anything too exerting. I dread to think what a state the kitchen must be in, as I haven't ventured downstairs since Monday when I really struggled to climb back up the stairs. But this too shall pass, the kitchen will be a mess until it is cleaned, the family are existing on rubbish I suspect but at least they have eaten something.
My middle child has been staying with us since the November lockdown she lives in shared housing in a busy city and 1 housemate had tested positive during the first wave. So I said "come home, we are out in the back of beyond you will be safe here" how little I knew...She tested positive today. Hopefully we will be fine and at least having this cursed virus has given me the joy of reading about all you lovely people and your lives.
Sorry to hear you tested positive notagran
My photo is of the jigsaw I completed when I was off sick recently with Covid.
I never lost my appetite nor sense of taste/smell, and as soon as I felt better and was out of isolation, I drove straight to the shops to stock up on the chocolate I had craved whilst completing the jigsaw
So very sorry to hear you've tested positive but when you read these posts, I hope you feel cheered up.. Twigs post was amazing, what an amazing women her DM is, and makes you realize that many older people pull through
How are you, OP?
Nota sorry your daughter has tested positive. I hope you both don't suffer to much and make a full recovery. I am in isolation until 1st. My daughter had a call from the nursery on Friday. A child her eldest was with on Wednesday tested positive for Covid. I had him Friday afternoon for 4 hours we made scones then played. She feels guilty that she has exposed me to possibly getting Covid but told her not to. I wouldn't miss a minute I spend with them. So far we are all well.
Forget about the kitchen at least they are eating. Hope they are feeding you healthy food and having plenty of drinks. Long time ago I had flu the children were young. They wanted fish fingers with rice . My late husband cooked the rice for 45 mins You can imagine what happened to it?. The children came up and begged me to come and look. Wall paper paste. He dashed out to the chip shop while they eat the fish fingers and had chips when he got back. Hope that has made you ?.
Both of you get well soon and hope the rest of your household don't get it. ??
My daughter has just phoned she tested positive for Covid. Had a cough and had a test got the results last night. Waiting game to see if any of us get it.
Whiff
Sorry to hear that Whiff. Let’s hope you remain uninfected.
Hello Notagranyet1234
Noticed it's 5 days since your last comment. Hope you are coping and still resting (upstairs). Don't worry about that kitchen.
Yes. I hope she’s ok.
A " Hope this cheers you up" message from me and my Goldfish, Wellington. Not able to post photos, unfortunately! I religiously wear a mask and so does my daughter in our effort to help. Wellington, however, does not!
How are you op
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