first of all hello everybody..hope you are all well.. me and my wife (claire) are a bit worried at the moment...as she is a type 1 diabetic and as suffered with pneumonia in the past (spend 3 weeks in a coma and was lucky to come through it ) and are obviously worried about covid 19 as im deemed to be a key worker( making fizzy pop)..... i am just wondering should we be shielding even though we have not received a letter from the doctors.... thanks a very concerned husband
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Inka
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Hello @Xblade Sorry your wife was so ill. I can understand how worried you must be.
Is there any way you could phone your wife could phone her GP or consultant to get advice? The diabetes alone doesn’t count as ‘severely vulnerable’ but her previous pneumonia might. I think she and you need a medical opinion.
There is advice online about shielding. Let me see if I can find it. Or hopefully someone else will if I can’t.
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SB2015
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Good morning Xblade and welcome to the forum. This is understandably a worrying time for everyone. Whilst having Diabetes in itself is not a reason to be shielding, as your wife has had pneumonia before I can understand your concern, and would reiterate Inka’s suggestion that you contact your GP.
This document from Diabetes UK is a useful summary with links to the government advice
Coronavirus and diabetes updates
All the coronavirus information below applies to the whole of the UK, unless specified. We've noted where are some differences in guidance and diabetes services across the UK.
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Welcome to the forum @Xblade
What a difficult situation you find yourselves in
After your wife’s experience with the coma, you must be very worried.
We have a number of members of the forum who have elected to go rather further than the official guidance that has already been shared, and decided to self isolate as fully as possible.
As you are recommended/required to continue working, this would be difficult for you to do as a couple, but you could decide to ‘self isolate’ within your own home, in the way you might do if one of you had developed symptoms, with your wife staying in just one room, and being scrupulous cleaning bathrooms/door handles etc, and delivering food outside the bedroom door.
Have you had a conversation with your employers about your worries? It might be worth asking if you could slightly change your role to limit contact with co-workers if possible. And in the meantime you could just take the sorts of extra steps that Drs and Nurses are currently doing to protect their families - essentially just assume whenever you return home that you HAVE the virus, and be super vigilant with hand washing etc.
Really hope you both get through this unscathed.
What a difficult situation you find yourselves in
After your wife’s experience with the coma, you must be very worried. We have a number of members of the forum who have elected to go rather further than the official guidance that has already been shared, and decided to self isolate as fully as possible.
As you are recommended/required to continue working, this would be difficult for you to do as a couple, but you could decide to ‘self isolate’ within your own home, in the way you might do if one of you had developed symptoms, with your wife staying in just one room, and being scrupulous cleaning bathrooms/door handles etc, and delivering food outside the bedroom door.
Have you had a conversation with your employers about your worries? It might be worth asking if you could slightly change your role to limit contact with co-workers if possible. And in the meantime you could just take the sorts of extra steps that Drs and Nurses are currently doing to protect their families - essentially just assume whenever you return home that you HAVE the virus, and be super vigilant with hand washing etc.
Really hope you both get through this unscathed.
thanx for your replies....we are going to get in touch with gp for further advice on monday......mean while we are going to be extra vigilant...although thats going to prove difficult as our son (postman) and myself(fizzy pop maker0 have to return to work next week... cheers and keep safe...
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