How are you all doing?

[stephknits]

Am doing a surprise quarantine knit along by Arne and Carlos, am setting up my home office and have packed away all the GCSE books and papers. Even did a bit of weeding

 

[rosy_nic]

Hi everyone,
I thought I would update on me 🙂 I'm still having to go to work as I work in a discount retailer, I'm not working on tills, now filling shelves and tidying. I had a cold which I'm still getting over - I'm still coughing up stuff maybe a couple of times a day, I'm also having panic attacks which not helps as I keep watching/reading the news. I'm also having my appointment with my consultant on the phone, I went to get my blood taken there was no queue!

In good news, I'm having a video chat, on Monday with the Girl Guides that I help with, so the girls can still have their last 2 meetings of the term. We are using Zoom so that shall be a bit of fun!

Hope you all keep your self well

 

[Ivostas66]

I have been absent from work for about 7 weeks with ongoing health issues - headaches, dizziness and occasional fainting. After countless visits to hospital and appointments with specialists, MRI scans, blood tests etc, the results of my MRI and a consultation with a neurologist point to things starting to look up! The neurologist was the only person working in Outpatients other than a handful of nurses and receptionists on Friday. The place was like a ghost town yet opposite, the main hospital was fairly busy and apparently corridors are lined with empty beds just in case things start to spike and there is a rush of people.

Must admit I have had so much conflicting advice from medical practitioners I have spoken to re: Coronavirus though. Some telling me that despite being asthmatic and a type 1 diabetic I am healthy and young (!) and therefore should just follow the usual hand washing and 2m distance guidance, but others telling me I am at much greater risk than most and as such should be self isolating and as far as possible being on lock down for the next 12 weeks! I'm somewhere in the middle at the moment.

Both sets of parents are either over 70 or close to 70 and have underlying health issues. As such our 2 year old daughter is very sad that she cannot visit or see them other than on Skype or similar. It's caused a few meltdowns. Our holiday to visit my sister and her family in Spain at Easter has also been cancelled - two different airlines for each flight, one telling us we will receive a refund, the other telling us they are not refunding any flights.

On the plus side, I have managed to do a lot in the garden as the weather has been fine and so my vitamin D levels are probably sky high! Mrs J also has a long list of jobs for me to do around the house now I am feeling more like my old self!

 

[Ivostas66]

It's getting all a little confusing. Early this morning we had an instruction that no-one is to go more than 5 metres from our front door. This affects my dogs and their daily runs in the campo and walks for me in the fresh air. Now, my little village is far from a hotbed of revolution but things erupted at the instruction this morning. The Spanish like to food shop daily and on Saturday for 2 days as everything is shut on Sunday. The authorities rapidly amended the instructions so now we can go to the food shops - no others - go to the doctor or the pharmacist. They even are going to let us walk our dogs but only as far as is necessary for them to err - evacuate, and then back home. Here we have health cards and our normal everyday medicines are listed on there but have to be renewed each year. My re-validation was due this week but as the authority does not want surgeries clogged up they set up a telephone line so that it could be done over the 'phone. Called them yesterday and they told me to wait for a call from my doctor today. He just called and re-validated my card for a year. I asked him about an antibiotic I need every three months or so for UTI's for which I usually have to visit the surgery. He said that he would add one prescription for it to my card. I cannot fault the speed and efficiency of the Spanish health service. I have enough food for myself and my dogs for 10 weeks 12 if I restrain myself. There is no more gardening to be done, if a weed dares show its face it is rapidly removed. I filled a bag with rubbish this morning and will take it to the basura (the big wheely bins that 'adorn' the streets in Spain) and use the opportunity to take my dogs along as well. I don't have any TV to watch and so am having to restrict my DVD watching to an hour a night. I do have an e-reader but am coming to the end of my stored novels. My sisters send me DVD's but we have had no postal services for 10 days. Well it is Friday and it is Spain so it is fish tonight and a few chips. The sooner that the world stops spending money on nuclear arms and high-speed train routes and spends the money on research against this virus the better for everyone.

My sister lives in Ibiza. On the second day of 'lockdown' she said she was climbing the walls. She is self employed and so all work has stopped and she has no income. She lives about 300m from the sea and he neighbour was arrested on the beach at gunpoint for walking his dog too far from home. A friend of hers was pulled over and arrested yesterday by armed police as he hadn't taken a short enough route driving home from work. Both of them now face hefty fines. However she does like the 8pm sing along - every night all residents have to stand outside and collectively clap/ cheer the work of the emergency services for 5 minutes.

 

[ManonD]

Just checking in folks.

Hope everyone is coping, and has managed to find the level of separation/isolation that they are happy offers them reduced risk, while also allowing life to continue.

Anyone found any particular difficulties or (even better) any unforeseen benefits and opportunities from this peculiar stage in all our lives?

Any top tips to share?

Any long-forgotten hobbies being resurrected?

Is ‘working from home’ working out (if you’ve been able to arrange that?)

Any book or box set recommendations?

Hang in there folks. It will all be over by Christmas (as they used to say in the war!)

Manon, 56, Type 1, overweight, fibromyalgia

I am a bit concern about social distance. Mainly from people living with me and working outside, or going to supermarket and stores.

I am working remotely since Thursday. Setting up online classes for the school where I am head of Science. Busier than ever.

did a lot of gardening today that made me feel good but now exhausted.

 

[grovesy]

My sister lives in Ibiza. On the second day of 'lockdown' she said she was climbing the walls. She is self employed and so all work has stopped and she has no income. She lives about 300m from the sea and he neighbour was arrested on the beach at gunpoint for walking his dog too far from home. A friend of hers was pulled over and arrested yesterday by armed police as he hadn't taken a short enough route driving home from work. Both of them now face hefty fines. However she does like the 8pm sing along - every night all residents have to stand outside and collectively clap/ cheer the work of the emergency services for 5 minutes.

I am not surprised at the gun point police escort, a friends daughter had this last week end on mainland, she was on holiday,now home.

 

[merrymunky]

I’m definitely socially distancing right now.
As a pregnant diabetic I have been instructed to work from home. It’s been difficult as a teacher. We’ve been prepping home learning packs for the children although our school will remain open as it is a special school. There’s very little for me to do now as not many children will be in and they’ve merged the children from my class with another and the teacher has already planned out the next week.
I officially finish in a fortnight for maternity anyway so there’s very little I can now do from home.

In the meantime I’m trying to rest, I might start sorting the house out a bit etc. I have mostly been watching Netflix and sleeping when not in front of the laptop ‘working.’

I don’t mind the staying in. I’m quite a home bod anyway. I am in need of some fresh air though. Have to collect prescriptions on Monday so that will get me our for half an hour

 

[SueEK]

Just an update on the situation. The latest grandchild has arrived safe and sound as far as can be seen on first inspection. The other children are sad that today is the last day at school as there were all sorts of trips and events planned, now cancelled. They have not met their new sister yet as they are not allowed into the hospital, but of course these days there are cameras in phones so they have seen her. Hopefully the weather will warm up quickly so they can at last go out into the garden to play for some time each day.

So glad all went well and congratulations to you all x

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I don’t mind the staying in. I’m quite a home bod anyway. I am in need of some fresh air though. Have to collect prescriptions on Monday so that will get me our for half an hour

Keep yourself well MM.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Just an update on the situation. The latest grandchild has arrived safe and sound as far as can be seen on first inspection

Ah that‘s great @Drummer! Congratulations on your new Grandaughter 🙂

 

[GJG99]

I am having really high anxiety too. My husband is off work for couple weeks but I am dreading when he has to go back to work. We are isolating by choice but went for a walk to our normally quiet country park this morning but there were a few more people than normal and a strong wind and I found myself getting really anxious that the virus might carry on the wind, although we managed to keep a distance from people. Most thanking and acknowledging the distance. The only ones that didn't were the young parents with kids. It probably does cross their minds that people may be trying to isolate. As nice as it was to get some air, I won't be doing it again for a while. Hope everyone stays well.

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[GJG99]

Snowden yesterday, people are not learning, one hospital in this area

 

[KARNAK]

Congratulations on your new Grandaughter @Drummer.

Not long now @merrymunky you`re doing excellent.

 

[merrymunky]

Congratulations on your new Grandaughter @Drummer.

Not long now @merrymunky you`re doing excellent.

Thank you. 7 more weeks till we are induced. Feels like a lifetime and so worried about what can happen in that time, especially in the current state of the country. She’s kicking away happily though.

 

[grovesy]

One of the Scottish MPs, were saying on Twitter one of the cottage letting companies were still bookings. Someone told him there relative asked the not to take bookings for their property, but the refused, and others said as soon as bookings were cancelled they were relisting.

 

[grovesy]

Thank you. 7 more weeks till we are induced. Feels like a lifetime and so worried about what can happen in that time, especially in the current state of the country. She’s kicking away happily though.

My local Maternity Unit has been very strict with visiting for the last couple of weeks.

 

[Sally71]

I had to laugh yesterday. Have been telling my husband all week how dire the situation is with toilet rolls, every time I go shopping it doesn’t matter how many shops I go in the shelves are always stripped bare. I found one little corner shop that still had some 4 packs and have bought some there, we are ok for at least the next week or so on that front. Hubby wants to go and visit his parents in a few days time and drop some supplies off for them so I said it might be a good idea to look for some loo roll and was trying to describe to him where the little corner shop is, if they have any left there now. Hubby just walked straight into Home Bargains and purchased an 18-pack (an hour after daughter had walked past and said people were queuing out the door) and now he is wondering what all the fuss is about!

I find myself wanting to cry at least once a day and am desperately trying to keep myself buoyed up, if I lose the plot now I will never get through the summer! My daughter is worse, she really doesn’t cope well with change and I’ve never seen her looking as sad as she did on Friday after school finished so I’ve got to try and keep both of us cheered up and am keeping as busy as possible and trying to find anything silly to laugh at. I think we will probably work through the entire film/comedy collection several times over the next few weeks just for escapism, daughter and I watched St.Trinian's yesterday (2007 version) which was just the right level of silly so we will probably watch the sequel today!

I find it some comfort having hubby home, I’d definitely rather he was here than not, he doesn’t have a clue about female emotions though so if either of us girls have a meltdown he'll be no help at all

 

[Sally71]

@merrymunky hope all goes well for you over the next few weeks, it should be exciting times but I’m not surprised you are worried given how things are. I know how desperately your little one is wanted and giving birth in the middle of a pandemic is hardly ideal (not that you had any control over that of course!) Good luck with it all, sending ((((hugs))))

 

[robert@fm]

Hang in there folks. It will all be over by Christmas (as they used to say in the war!)

It certainly will; the point is, which Christmas? 🙄 😱

 

[Browser]

I came across this on Twitter:

If this whole CV thing is starting to send you into a downward spiral, consider the following;

Bit of positive news :

- China has closed down its last coronavirus hospital. Not enough new cases to support them.

- Doctors in India have been successful in treating Coronavirus. Combination of drugs used: Lopinavir, Retonovir, Oseltamivir along with Chlorphenamine. They are going to suggest same medicine, globally.

- Researchers of the Erasmus Medical Center claim to have found an antibody against coronavirus.

- A 103-year-old Chinese grandmother has made a full recovery from COVID-19 after being treated for 6 days in Wuhan, China.

- Apple reopens all 42 china stores,

- Cleveland Clinic developed a COVID-19 test that gives results in hours, not days.

- Good news from South Korea, where the number of new cases is declining.

- Italy is hit hard, experts say, only because they have the oldest population in Europe.

- Scientists in Israel likely to announce the development of a coronavirus vaccine.

- 3 Maryland coronavirus patients fully recovered; able to return to everyday life.

- A network of Canadian scientists are making excellent progress in Covid-19 research.

- A San Diego biotech company is developing a Covid-19 vaccine in collaboration with Duke University and National University of Singapore.