friend not being a friend?

Never mind vivid.
Covid!

I am sorry my post seemed harsh, I didn't intend it to be so, but it was just the original post seemed to show so little understanding of just how serious the COVID pandemic has been - even after she had caught it.

Your attitude doesn’t seem to have changed much after your awful experience with Covid although I’m glad you are now vaccinated. I work in intensive care, and I can assure you that fully vaccinated people rarely, and I mean very rarely, end up in intensive care on a ventilator. All we have been doing all summer is treating the unvaccinated. There is no way you saw many sick vaccinated people.

But back to your friend, perhaps she is just busy, could you be more sensitive to that?

The vaccine doesn't stop u catching Covid or spreading it. It does make symptoms less serious in most cases. So why do people avoid antivaxers?
If you want to be sure someone doesn't have covid a LF test or PCR test before visiting is the only way.
I'm not an antivaxer and had 2 vaccines but can't understand why people avoid those who don't have it. I'm just realistic about the vaccine's capabilities. Do people avoid the unvaccinated incase they die of the virus or do they falsely believe it prevents infection?

I avoid the anti-Vaxers I know because it’s part of a cavalier attitude to the infection. I suppose I feel that they’re much more likely to dismiss any symptoms and carry on meeting up and very unlikely to take any sort of test.

When we were in lockdown they were the ones that wanted to come round and who met up with several other like-minded people. I avoided them then too.

I would imagine that despite the long history of your friendship, you are not the person your friend thought you were.

You received a very hard lesson but don’t appear to have learned much from it. Does the fact that the majority of posters disagree with your stance give you any thoughts that you may have made a very poor decision and put others at risk whilst doing so?

I would imagine the pneumonia, stroke, and 6 week stay in hospital did that already.
Pinkcakes has said that all these responses have made her wish she didnt survive, so it might be best not to read pages of "telling off".

sazzi the vaccine doesn't stop you catching a disease, no vaccine does, but it considerably reduces your chances of doing so. The incidence of COVID in vaccinated people is much lower than among non-vaccinated people.

PinkCakes

I've been really upset by some of the responses on here. I took my chances by not having the vaccine, paid the price (many of you will think it served me right) of it. As I've said, quite a few of the patients who had already had the vaccine, still ended up in hospital.

I can understand that my friend may well have felt, perhaps still feels, anxious about seeing me. I wish she'd perhaps 'phoned me, just for 5 minutes.

Some days I feel very guilty for having survived. The judgmental comments I've had have made me wish I hadn't. Thanks.

I don’t think anyone would think it “served you right” getting Covid but “what did you THINK would happen?” by being unvaccinated.

Am I the only one who thinks it unusual that the friend of the OP was in a relationship with OPs son?

Same here cannotbelieveiamaskingthis208. How did that come about?

Maybe your friend has reevaluated your friendship and has taken the opportunity to distance herself while she has been unable to be in contact with you. If that’s the case, she’s allowed to make that decision. Perhaps she’s enjoyed not being so reliant on you as before.