Pandemic personal consequences

[Proper Tidy]

Son's school have announced they're having a party including special lunch for Year 11s tomorrow to celebrate their last day at school...

Really? That's fucking something isn't it

 

[Spymaster]

My Big Issue seller gave me an elbow bump instead of a handshake this morning. That's the first one I've had.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Really? That's fucking something isn't it

Yeah. Surprised they've essentially admitted school's out forever for him this early

 

[treelover]

starting to panic now, my crucial tesco shop is only going to have a number of products on it, many essentials not available.

 

[mod]

I'm on autoimmune / anti TNF meds. Have been for over 10 years and it works very well by lowering my immune system. With it in my system I'm in teh same risk bracket as a 70 year old.I'm 45. So stopped taking it and will have a life of pain and opioids for the foreseeable.

 

[Anju]

My wife has started eating 2 cloves of raw crushed garlic every day.

 

[MickiQ]

starting to panic now, my crucial tesco shop is only going to have a number of products on it, many essentials not available.

Online I take it? Why don't you try raising a 2nd online shop against Sainsbury as well to see if they have the missing items?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Their joy may be short lived when they realize they're stuck at home 24/7.

They don’t go out these days anyway, just stare at screens all day and night.

 

[sojourner]

Their joy may be short lived when they realize they're stuck at home 24/7.

Again, I'd have been made up with that No mates, and me mother used to kick me out 'to play' all the time. I was never allowed to stay in.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

It seems I'm working from home for the next few days. I had a small fever and cough so we decided it was best to work from home until this resolves. It's probably allergies or something. Its that time of year. They are still burning Kansas as far as I know.

 

[sojourner]

It seems I'm working from home for the next few days. I had a small fever and cough so we decided it was best to work from home until this resolves. It's probably allergies or something. I'm prone to allergies.

Here's hoping it is. Mate of mine's got it and she said she goes through periods of feeling really well, then fever hits quickly and her lungs and throat close up!

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

BB1’s school told her tomorrow is her last day, the deputy head was tearful and will be doing their leavers assembly. Many other teachers visibly upset. Cruddy way to finish school. Like sojourner I would have been delighted with this turn of events, but many kids today actually like school and their teachers aren’t all kid-hating psychos like ours seemed to be...

 

[kalidarkone]

My lovely neighbour's took a parcel in for me and apart from thanking them I have had to ask them not to from now on so we can socially distance specially cus I'm at high risk of being infected due to doing health care work, and wouldn't want to pass it on to them.....

 

[kalidarkone]

My Big Issue seller gave me an elbow bump instead of a handshake this morning. That's the first one I've had.

Really? Have you been shaking hands?

 

[sojourner]

but many kids today actually like school and their teachers aren’t all kid-hating psychos like ours seemed to be...

Really?! Wow. Mind, plenty of them seemed to like it back then. Just not me.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Here's hoping it is. Mate of mine's got it and she said she goes through periods of feeling really well, then fever hits quickly and her lungs and throat close up!

I hope your mate makes it through.

 

[TopCat]

Their joy may be short lived when they realize they're stuck at home 24/7.

At least they dont just have three channels

 

[TopCat]

My Big Issue seller gave me an elbow bump instead of a handshake this morning. That's the first one I've had.

I was in the pub about a week ago and it was all elbow bumps.

 

[Looby]

My worry is for those kids where school is a place of safety. Where they have a hot meal and have people looking out for them. Some of the kids I work with love school and really miss that routine and normality in the holidays. Sounds mad to me too but almost all the primary kids I know (personally and professionally) love their schools.

There’ll be kids at risk now that don’t currently meet the criteria for school being available for them. More time at home, stressed parents worrying about health, money, work. Increased substance and alcohol use and just the frustration of being isolated.

 

[Spymaster]

I was in the pub about a week ago and it was all elbow bumps.

An elbow bump off you would take most fucker's heads off

 

[TopCat]

My worry is for those kids where school is a place of safety. Where they have a hot meal and have people looking out for them. Some of the kids I work with love school and really miss that routine and normality in the holidays. Sounds mad to me too but almost all the primary kids I know (personally and professionally) love their schools.

There’ll be kids at risk now that don’t currently meet the criteria for school being available for them. More time at home, stressed parents worrying about health, money, work. Increased substance and alcohol use and just the frustration of being isolated.

I used to miss the free school meals during the holidays or if I was sick. I could wolf a packed lunch in ten mins.

Thankfully my stepdad started making me lunches that often involved a whole bagette. My mum ate fuck all. We was poor

 

[two sheds]

elbow bumps after people have just coughed into their elbows is that?

 

[extra dry]

I've just lost a load of work and my income for the next month.

I am been given unpaid leave. At home waiting for online teaching details...and I wait, smoke a little and wait

 

[moody]

been laid off both my part time jobs, one was a bar job the other was a morning cleaning stint.

pretty pissed off, but not the end of the world (yet) and I needed a change.

 

[TopCat]

An elbow bump off you would take most fucker's heads off

I have started to build me strength up a bit. Using an Azeda to dig the garden before vegetable planting .
I'm also getting that feeling of spring which makes me want to clean and mend and fix and so on. I'm really encouraged by the increase in strength in a short piece of time.

 

[TopCat]

But the big issue today was a meeting with Doctor and specialist nurse etc at St. George's.. I'm due an operation asap to take biopsies from under my tongue and whilst anethtisised (sp?) stretch my jaws apart to examine in detail the cancer treatment wound sites in my throat and mouth.

They told me to expect to go in but also dont know when or where or really anything.

The Doctor talking openly about London being shut down. Then the practicalities. Take more morphine but we cant give more than 14 days to you as controlled drug. That's 14 days if I did not ganet it when struck by pain peaks.

The Doctor told me to isolate myself given my "co morbidity". But how long for ? Months? I was dumstruck by this point and was in agony and kept forgetting my key questions.

GF is bereft at not seeing me. The Lidl in Morden was really looking like it had been looted bar the gardening stuff.

I'm going with gf tomorrow to buy about 200 quid of fantastic quality garden tools. Normally they sell out in hours. Then cutting her lawn back by a third to create our new vegetable patch.

I'm just wittering bit to avoid the obvious.
I dont want to isolate for weeks or months. I have been doing this anyway cos cancer and it's doing my nut in.

 

[TopCat]

Lovely urbanite sending me a spliff. Cool as fuck.

Oh and to the urbanite who sent me that cannabutter. As I got ready for hospital this morning I had coffee and toast with just loads of that butter and honey.
It made all the difference. Not nauseous, laughing.
Thanks again xxxx

 

[klang]

Their joy may be short lived when they realize they're stuck at home 24/7.

a friend of mine sends his kids to a Steiner school in Germany. Since they closed the schools they get more tasks and homework and goals to complete than ever before when the schools were open and Steiner was relatively relaxed with little pressure on the pupils. The whole family hate it.

 

[Sue]

I'm on autoimmune / anti TNF meds. Have been for over 10 years and it works very well by lowering my immune system. With it in my system I'm in teh same risk bracket as a 70 year old.I'm 45. So stopped taking it and will have a life of pain and opioids for the foreseeable.

Have you spoken to your consultant/nurse specialist? I'm on similar meds and the general advice is to stay on them unless advised otherwise (like if you get an infection or something). If you have a flare, that can cause long-term damage/consequences so...

 

[grit]

Went for a walk through Dublin city center for half an hour today. Saw 3 pubs already boarded up and when I passed our version of the job centre there were about 40 people outside learning on the glass filling out the emergency dole forms.

Grim.