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Twoapenny:
--- Quote from: lighter on July 26, 2020, 01:06:36 PM ---A friend in Georgia has COVID 19.
I can't say I feel terrified for her. I have the feeling she'll be OK, even though she has immune issues and is overweight.
Now I'm focusing on it.... it is pretty scary.
Lighter
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I hope she's okay, Lighter. Keep us posted. I have a friend waiting on a test at the moment after someone who KNEW THEY HAD IT CAME ROUND TO VISIT HER! Seriously, wtf is wrong with some people? The cousin of someone else I know has just got off life support; no longer life threatening but still very unwell. Long recovery time for some, I hear. And still there are people insisting it's not real. Mind blowing. I'll keep everything crossed for her, I hope she is starting to feel better very soon xx
Hopalong:
Ai yi, yi, Lighter, I'm sorry about your friend.
I'm no longer sanguine about anyone of any age just "getting over it" completely, unless they do. Information about that seems all over the map, with some 9-year-olds dying and some seniors surviving, and everything in between. I especially worry about the weird syndromes appearing in kids. Lord knows how that will affect their future health. (Reminds me of the shock I felt when an older friend, who'd had polio and "recovered" long ago when young, and then came down with post-polio syndrome in her 70s. She wound up losing a leg.)
What I find most fearful about the virus is first, the PTSD-inducing torture of an ICU/ventilation experience, and then, should I be "lucky"--the "recovery". Seems to me that once "lucky" people are well enough to be discharged, the statistics are adjusted and bingo, add one to the "survivor" column, happy-happy! But long-term lung or other organ damage path and other issues are still uncharted and unknown. Like permanent emphysema. I just know I wouldn't cope well with either getting OR surviving Covid-19. Not at my age (or mental state). Don't wanna die from it either, but survival is no cupcake at a picnic, as I understand it. How doctors define "recovery" is a very different animal from how I would, with quality of life mattering a lot more than simply continuing to tick.
(All this has a lot to do with the fact that locally, we're still marching steadily upward on the FIRST curve. It's nerve-wracking.)
And how are we going to manage the medical needs of all these "recovered" patients as unknown after-effects kick in later in their lives? With dying economies and civil unrest, and politicians gutting health care? Fingers crossed for November.
Whew, quite a rant.
I was actually coming onto this thread to whine a bit. I'm having a harder time than before breaking up with M, in coping with the isolation. Doing my best to rally myself, but the loll-in-bed-all-day pernicious retreat-behavior has crept up again. I'm pushing back a little and not panicking (I'm up and dressed now, first time in days) -- but it's concerning.
I'm trying to schedule more Zoom chats with friends. I think the biggest temporary problem is that my closest friend's weekly outdoor visits have been shut down by us both for a couple weeks because the heat (high 90s) is just too much for our old selves. So I'm missing that regular connection and support. Heading to the neighbors' for takeout Mexican food outdoors this evening, which I know will help.
Meanwhile, drinking more than I should, and have emotionally-eaten so much I'm up at least 5 pounds since the breakup. (Thank god I don't have a scale.) So...I know things will get better. Just wish the quarantine could end soon for everyone. And I know it can't.
Whiney whiney,
Hops
Twoapenny:
Hops, I'm sorry. Quarantine is hard to cope with, and then adding a break up to it as well is even more difficult. Glad you are up and about, though, and heading out for food with friends. I think everything is going to be topsy turvy for a while and we'll all have to muddle along as best we can. I still think coming out the other side of this with extra weight and a bit sozzled is a better outcome than not getting through it at all but it's still hard to manage and cope with day to day. I hope it starts to get a little bit easier for more frequent periods of time for you xx
lighter:
School will be on line the first 3 months here. It's official.
Youngest needs more social interaction than that. She had a terrific spend the night birthday party with a school chum last night. DD just lights up. There's so much joy for her..... will have to figure out some way to get one or two other kids together for school, I think.
Lighter
sKePTiKal:
Well, my energy for work picked up this week and I engaged my favorite trick to push through and finish something - "something" in this case being that rock wall veneer in the master bedroom. I ordered the hardwood yesterday so now I have a deadline. I can't seem to find modular closet components to suit myself & the design I have in mind... so I'm going to build it myself.
Hol said she hoped she's moved out before I start doing that - LOLOLOL. Her piles of stuff have grown exponentially as she thinks of more things she "needs". But it's like pulling teeth to get the contractor out here to finish; and now the grout in the master shower is wrong - and contractor wants Hol to remove the existing grout (it's silicone based). Her not very happy with him right now.
She is currently assembling an origami paper owl lamp.... LOLOL.
And I still can't get started on B's shop yet. Backhoe guy isn't done with his other job yet. He needs to move the shale & dirt from that spot so I can get a measurement that's somewhat accurate.
If all goes well B will be here in another month. (Having no contact with him is hard; but he's staged a couple of messages to get me though this week. Got a package of balls for Knuckles with a card in it.)
I've had conversations now with the other two principals in the business; and this looks to be another rough month - but it's kind of reassuring that we maybe haven't lost that much MORE ground in July. I'll know in another week or so. My brother actually said it was good I was thinking ahead to the options we have, that we could possibly use to get through this... assuming it doesn't get a LOT worse sales-wise for too long. So that's a comfort; being able to communicate with him in an adult fashion and face facts, as they are - instead of how we wish they were.
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