How are you all doing?

[Ditto]

Sorry to hear this Davein.

 

[Jon-Manchester]

That is horrible news Davein, that certainly puts my petty worries in perspective. Lots of well wishes

 

[miguel81]

Davein - such sad news. I send you and your partner every best wish.

 

[grovesy]

An hour ago ago my greatest concern was making certain everything was in place for self isolating.
Then my partner of 40 years received the phone call from her consultant confirming aggressive lung cancer.
I always believed that due to my progressive chronic illnesses I would go first.
Suddenly the virus has become the least of our concerns.

Sorry to hear this , take as good of the both of you.

 

[GJG99]

I was doing fine until I saw the sky news report from inside an Italian hospital this morning, that was a real shock to the system and upset me a lot. For some nonsensical reason I cancelled the golf I had planned for today immediately, no logic whatsoever.
I am confused about whether to social or self, a doctor on BBC Wales just said diabetics should be self isolating, so I'm not sure which way to jump.
Then spent 3 hours in my local boots today trying to get a repeat prescription, tbh, they had marked the floor in 2m spaces for queueing but kids showed zero interest in it, which is frustrating.
Just me and my wife at home so I think we will find plenty to do house and garden, I'm still managing my 10k steps a day so hope to keep that going, but it's very early on this process so it's a question of wait and see. Take care everyone x

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

An hour ago ago my greatest concern was making certain everything was in place for self isolating.
Then my partner of 40 years received the phone call from her consultant confirming aggressive lung cancer.
I always believed that due to my progressive chronic illnesses I would go first.
Suddenly the virus has become the least of our concerns.

Oh Dave!

I am so, so sorry to hear this. Have they given you any information about options and treatment? Or is it straight to palliative care like Jane was?

You must be beside yourselves. Take some time this weekend to let it begin to sink in.

Have you got any more appointments booked? Must be so difficult with all this c19 nonsense throwing a spanner in the works

Thinking of you both.

 

[Deleted member 25429]

Self isolation since Monday as I developed a cough. Thought "Great, time to spend some quality time in the shed, working on an old GPO motorcycle" but this cough has got worse, and to top it I also get bronchial asthma and have a rare muscular dystrophy that affects my throat (don't look good for me does it), but what will be will be. So I'm house bound, board stupid as I'm normally on the go, at work, in the shed, helping someone fix their car or bike, bit of DIY. So just sitting and not much to do apart from think about what could happen (not that I suffer from anxiety)

I hope and pray you are over the worst and your health improves over the next few days . Thinking of everyone at this very difficult time

 

[Spozkins]

No symptoms for me but I work in the care system and really can't implement strict social distancing.

Due to having other autoimmune conditions and not great control of the T1 I have decided to self isolate anyway. Work were fairly understanding though I really feel like I'm dropping them in it - but I am doing my last shift this evening and really feel that isolation is the best thing for my mental health too.

Hope everybody is doing okay. Keep breathing and keeping busy even if you are indoors.

 

[Poolie girl]

I'm very sorry to hear that x

 

[Poolie girl]

My thoughts are with you both and your family x

 

[Tee G]

Its a difficult time.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Self isolation since Monday as I developed a cough. Thought "Great, time to spend some quality time in the shed, working on an old GPO motorcycle" but this cough has got worse,

Really sorry to hear this @megga

Hope your cough clears up soon and you are able to go back to quality shed time. Do you have a fever too?

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I was doing fine until I saw the sky news report from inside an Italian hospital this morning, that was a real shock to the system and upset me a lot.

Sorry to hear you’ve had a tough day today. It’s entirely understandable that you have felt a bit overwhelmed - it’s a very extreme situation, and we all have a lot to process, with a constant barrage of new information coming in every day.

Are you discussing your worries with your wife? and do you have friends who you can contact electronically?

Good that you are keeping active too.

Some people are finding simple mindfulness or breathing exercises are helping them keep the worries, stresses and anxiety at bay.

Keep sharing how you are coping here too.

 

[Sally71]

It’s easy to blame some other ’bad people’ when I wonder if its now more a case of ‘a little bit of extra’ for everyone?

Possibly, but I think what's worse is that people have latched onto the fact that the shops restock overnight and they are now queuing down the road at opening time. In my local Tesco there were apparently fights over toilet roll at 6am the other morning, and the shelves were entirely cleared by half past. My parents decided to take advantage of their local Sainsbury’s doing an OAP hour the other day, they arrived promptly at 7am only to find that they had to queue for half a mile before they could even get in the car park, and then of course took ages to find a space. Once inside the shop was rammed to the rafters with people, they STILL couldn’t get any toilet roll or tissues or certain other items, and then had to queue for half an hour to check out. So much for social distancing, and anyone who wasn’t an OAP who had to wait until later to go in wouldn’t have had much chance of getting what they want. Apart from Christmas Eve, when on earth do you get that many people going shopping at the same time?! And it's happening every day! Are some of them going every day to buy it all again, because you don’t get that happening when people just shop when they actually need stuff!

I went this afternoon, was advised not to because there would be nothing in stock, and was pleasantly surprised. Hardly any people in there which made the whole experience much more pleasant, yes many shelves were empty but I managed to get enough food for main meals and tea time until at least Monday. Had to change my plan of what meals they were going to be, but got some amazingly fat and juicy pork chops which were not in the usual packaging and looked like they had probably been on the butcher counter and then packaged up when he went home! They had oxtails as well, never seen those before, I didn’t buy them though! All I couldn’t get was milk and margarine, so when I’d loaded the car up I walked over the road to Aldi and got them there. No loo roll in either of course but we're reasonably well stocked with those at the moment. So I have decided that unless we get extremely desperate for toilet roll there is no way I’m going shopping in the morning any more, until things calm down!

Apart from no fresh chicken or tissue products Aldi seemed amazingly well stocked, I reckon they go round refilling their shelves a bit more frequently than Tesco do 🙄

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Possibly, but I think what's worse is that people have latched onto the fact that the shops restock overnight and they are now queuing down the road at opening time. In my local Tesco there were apparently fights over toilet roll at 6am the other morning, and the shelves were entirely cleared by half past. My parents decided to take advantage of their local Sainsbury’s doing an OAP hour the other day, they arrived promptly at 7am only to find that they had to queue for half a mile before they could even get in the car park, and then of course took ages to find a space. Once inside the shop was rammed to the rafters with people, they STILL couldn’t get any toilet roll or tissues or certain other items, and then had to queue for half an hour to check out.

That sounds absolutely horrendous

 

[Davein]

Thankyou all for your kind thoughts.
Angela went to the GP as she was worried about being out of breathe and heart failure runs in her family. She went for a scan and was later contacted the same day to say her heart was perfectly OK but the scan indicated a mass on her lung. Further PET and CT scans and endoscopy confirmed the worst outcome : aggressive form of cancer..
Due to the present crisis we are all in we were given the results over the phone.
We have been called in first thing Monday morning to the Royal Cornwall to start immediate treatment (Kemo). They have said the best they can do is try and slow down its progress.
We have two sons up in Bedfordshire and a 26 year old daughter who lives with us down in Cornwall who is very close to her mum and I have no idea when we are going to tell her as Angela doesn't want anyone to know yet. But time is short.
It must have been a year+ since I last posted on this site and it's good to recognise many familiar names.

 

[grovesy]

Thankyou all for your kind thoughts.
Angela went to the GP as she was worried about being out of breathe and heart failure runs in her family. She went for a scan and was later contacted the same day to say her heart was perfectly OK but the scan indicated a mass on her lung. Further PET and CT scans and endoscopy confirmed the worst outcome : aggressive form of cancer..
Due to the present crisis we are all in we were given the results over the phone.
We have been called in first thing Monday morning to the Royal Cornwall to start immediate treatment (Kemo). They have said the best they can do is try and slow down its progress.
We have two sons up in Bedfordshire and a 26 year old daughter who lives with us down in Cornwall who is very close to her mum and I have no idea when we are going to tell her as Angela doesn't want anyone to know yet. But time is short.
It must have been a year+ since I last posted on this site and it's good to recognise many familiar names.

Well some regulars here, but partly due to the current situation we have had surge in members trying to find information, and in a lot cases clarification . Try to take care as best you can.

 

[megga]

Really sorry to hear this @megga

Hope your cough clears up soon and you are able to go back to quality shed time. Do you have a fever too?

No fever thank goodness, but chest has got worse, going to have to contact the GP now, wanted to avoid as I know they're gonna be rushed of their feet.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

going to have to contact the GP now, wanted to avoid as I know they're gonna be rushed of their feet.

Hope you can get phone support, either from GP or via 111 - so difficult with all the options under so much pressure

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Thankful for the sunshine today. Just took the dogs out to a big wide-open green space near me (grounds of an old Manor House now owned by the council). A fair few people about, but all keeping sensible distances.