Felinia
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
I think I've come to accept that my life now for at least the next year will be isolation at home, with a once a week trip out to keep my car alive and top up my food box. Social contact by phone and email only, as nobody I know from my generation wants to mix with anyone any more "just in case", even my social bubble person. My cousin, a nurse, is still double sanitising everything she touches and/or that comes into the house - including all shopping, packaging and bags - and storing most things in the shed for 7 days first.
I do miss my Aqua and meals out, but you only have to look at the rising case numbers to know that any contact - be it a staycation, eat out cheap, celebrate your footie team, immediately spreads the virus. And other European countries with higher case numbers still have a much lower death toll. How come we can't seem to save lives as well as all these other countries? I watched the Van Tulliken brothers programme on TV this week and was appalled at the suffering, in hospital and of those struggling to recover from the unexpected side effects. And amazed at the caring people doing their best to help them. Michael Mosely really hit home about the risk to diabetic and overweight people.
Come September I wonder if the schools really will return, or we'll all be locked down again. I so feel for all the people struggling with financial problems, employment problems, business problems, which is only going to get worse, and am just glad I am retired. I have refused to have the boiler serviced, go to the dentist, hairdresser, or for any routine non-essential appointments, only keeping medical appointments. This week I allowed someone into my home for the 1st time since early March, as I'd been without electricity for 30 hours. We were both masked and gloved, and as soon as he left I sanitised everything he'd been near. I'll have to repeat the procedure in 2 weeks, when BT come for an essential installation.
So if this is how it is to be from now on, I'll try and do something positive - shift the weight I've gained in lockdown. I know it's affected my diabetes and general health. Low carbs all the way and a few motivational books and cookbooks.
I do miss my Aqua and meals out, but you only have to look at the rising case numbers to know that any contact - be it a staycation, eat out cheap, celebrate your footie team, immediately spreads the virus. And other European countries with higher case numbers still have a much lower death toll. How come we can't seem to save lives as well as all these other countries? I watched the Van Tulliken brothers programme on TV this week and was appalled at the suffering, in hospital and of those struggling to recover from the unexpected side effects. And amazed at the caring people doing their best to help them. Michael Mosely really hit home about the risk to diabetic and overweight people.
Come September I wonder if the schools really will return, or we'll all be locked down again. I so feel for all the people struggling with financial problems, employment problems, business problems, which is only going to get worse, and am just glad I am retired. I have refused to have the boiler serviced, go to the dentist, hairdresser, or for any routine non-essential appointments, only keeping medical appointments. This week I allowed someone into my home for the 1st time since early March, as I'd been without electricity for 30 hours. We were both masked and gloved, and as soon as he left I sanitised everything he'd been near. I'll have to repeat the procedure in 2 weeks, when BT come for an essential installation.
So if this is how it is to be from now on, I'll try and do something positive - shift the weight I've gained in lockdown. I know it's affected my diabetes and general health. Low carbs all the way and a few motivational books and cookbooks.