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Hopalong:
Thanks, Tupp, I'm in good shape.
I've decided that shopping for fresh produce is still shopping, so I'm not doing that.
Haven't been to any kind of store in almost two weeks now. One more week, and then I can go play at M's house and vice versa!
I have ordered in everything I could possibly need to eat and will be fine. Frozen vegs and cans of fruit and soup and jars and shelf-stable packages (like soy milk cartons). I've made bread a couple times in the machine. Last night I took a loaf to M who was doing a PHD review online. Left it on his porch and he left me a big container of baked ziti. Yumm.
My fridge and freezer are full for the first time ever. Most of the time there are about 5 or 6 things on the shelves. So even after the parallel quarantine between M and me is over, I'll be continuing social distancing with friends by walking six feet apart and having them over on sunny days where we can sit and drink wine six feet apart on my back patio.
I read a truly horrifying account of enduring a ventilator in ProPublica that absolutely confirmed my lack of interest in hospitalization should I become infected. Or for any other reason with a little luck. So I think the absolute primary thing is embracing a Zoom and garden and six-feet-friends life until a vaccine is proven, developed and distributed. I think it will be different but probably not as hard as it will be for many. M loves running around town doing errands so it will be more difficult for him. I hope I can influence him to stay the course. I think I can...he's been extremely disciplined about the precautions so far.
I already tend to stay home a lot, and think until the first surge peaks AND subsides to zero in my town, that's the best course. Then only can only hope it's not back again in winter...I don't think a vaccine will be out until the following.
I've been taking walks again with Pooch and enjoying them a lot. So ironically, my health may improve because the world has closed in.
I'm very grateful M is in my life, as it would feel much more isolating without him. I'll still complain but am lucky to have his commitment and partnership. He thinks we dodged the economic bullet by not buying a house a while back, and with everything collapsing I see he's right.
On a Zoom chat yesterday with a woman who volunteers for an organization I'm interested in, she explained how she and her bf got married but kept their own houses. Idea....hmmmm! Perhaps that could be our answer.
hugs
Hops
lighter:
Lord, YES to keeping a his and her residence, Hops.
Especially when one has really BIG energy and the other more subtle.
So glad you're back in victuals, Tupp.
So far I've made a big pot of ham and bean soup.... so comforting.... a large pot of spaghetti sauce with pork (Italians would call it pork salsa) and we make a daily pot of rice in the rice cooker.
I haven't had Tupp's surge of lightness and energy.... I thought I would, but I distinctly do not. Yesterday was better... just cleaning a bathroom and the kitchen left me feeling much better this morning, though I woke with a stitch in the back of my neck.
I see the vet tech student posted her services to the neighborhood board. I'm trying to figure out how to suit her up and me, while we work on baby girl pug together. DIY taped masks and splash guards won't be 100% but they'll get me through 5 minutes of very close contact, or so I figure. I know I won't be breathing someone else's air back and forth with nothing between us. Gloves will go in a bag outside.
CB: The pie baking and mindful enjoyment of food was nice to read. It turned my attention to being more intentional around it too.
Lighter
lighter:
Why are people dying from cardiac arrest? Why is the virus killing people this way?
A 38yo man died in NY today, along with 2 others, all from cardiac arrest
38yo.
Lighter
Twoapenny:
--- Quote from: Hopalong on March 25, 2020, 10:48:04 AM ---Thanks, Tupp, I'm in good shape.
I've decided that shopping for fresh produce is still shopping, so I'm not doing that.
Haven't been to any kind of store in almost two weeks now. One more week, and then I can go play at M's house and vice versa!
I have ordered in everything I could possibly need to eat and will be fine. Frozen vegs and cans of fruit and soup and jars and shelf-stable packages (like soy milk cartons). I've made bread a couple times in the machine. Last night I took a loaf to M who was doing a PHD review online. Left it on his porch and he left me a big container of baked ziti. Yumm.
My fridge and freezer are full for the first time ever. Most of the time there are about 5 or 6 things on the shelves. So even after the parallel quarantine between M and me is over, I'll be continuing social distancing with friends by walking six feet apart and having them over on sunny days where we can sit and drink wine six feet apart on my back patio.
I read a truly horrifying account of enduring a ventilator in ProPublica that absolutely confirmed my lack of interest in hospitalization should I become infected. Or for any other reason with a little luck. So I think the absolute primary thing is embracing a Zoom and garden and six-feet-friends life until a vaccine is proven, developed and distributed. I think it will be different but probably not as hard as it will be for many. M loves running around town doing errands so it will be more difficult for him. I hope I can influence him to stay the course. I think I can...he's been extremely disciplined about the precautions so far.
I already tend to stay home a lot, and think until the first surge peaks AND subsides to zero in my town, that's the best course. Then only can only hope it's not back again in winter...I don't think a vaccine will be out until the following.
I've been taking walks again with Pooch and enjoying them a lot. So ironically, my health may improve because the world has closed in.
I'm very grateful M is in my life, as it would feel much more isolating without him. I'll still complain but am lucky to have his commitment and partnership. He thinks we dodged the economic bullet by not buying a house a while back, and with everything collapsing I see he's right.
On a Zoom chat yesterday with a woman who volunteers for an organization I'm interested in, she explained how she and her bf got married but kept their own houses. Idea....hmmmm! Perhaps that could be our answer.
hugs
Hops
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That's all good to read, Hops (not the ventilator bit but I do get what you mean. Choosing what you will and won't do in your final days is important, I think - I think we should all have the right not to put ourselves through something horrible. But I am obviously always hoping that it won't come to that for you). And yes, own houses. Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton quite famously had houses next door to one another with connecting doors. I think it sounds very sensible.
I think my health is improving, too. Stress levels much reduced. Lots more down time than usual. Eating much better food because I'm not grabbing crap as I rush from one thing to the next and I've got time to plan and make nice meals, instead of having to do things because they're quick or I'm too tired to cook. Time to do yoga, and dance, and garden, and do housework. Son and I are doing a workout video each day to keep him active. Lots of vitamins and supplements at the moment in an attempt to keep the immune system up. Far less caffeine, as I'm not having to keep myself going through the day (just woke up from a nap now!). Ironic that the risk of ill health might make us a bit healthier :) Can they still keep your monitor machine working without you going anywhere or did you need to go to hospital to get it checked or anything? xx
sKePTiKal:
Apparently one week's isolation is enough for people to start showing psychological stress symptoms.
Those of us at the farm, are managing OK. Things to do besides wear on each other helps. HUMOR seems to be useful as well. And for whatever reason, I am the person people reach out to, when they start losing it.
So, I've stepped in and sorted out some panic at the shop; I was glad to see that for once my brother & I were on the same page there. And he was engaging too. Not so much at home, according to my mother... who bent my ear for a couple hours while I was working up to my own breaking point. SIGH... (same old same old there)
Friend Debbie is starting to bounce off the walls - I think she depends on work for an exchange of problems to deal with and work problems are ones she's not THAT emotionally engaged with. She seems easy to make giggle though... so not around the bend yet.
Both girls (mine) are claiming they are such empaths that they are at the mercy of all the awful things happening in the world. Already had listened & pondered Hol's version of that before Amy called. I had to explain that all the awful things have ALWAYS gone on in the world - and they weren't about to stop now - and as an empath, she has to remember to take care of herself FIRST or she can't take care of others. That she has a DUTY to care for herself. I made her laugh with my usual sick, twisted dark humor.
Methinks that particular thread of caring, lends itself to a lot of catastrophizing. And then, when the situation is so dire, irreversible (permanent), and awful in one's imagination.... we are in the thrall of it. Until another things comes along to shift us out of that idee fixe. Or so today's theory is runnning anyway. In my head. LOL.
Buck's oldest - she's the same age as Hol - is in hospital in London. Tested positive and has lupus. He is hanging in there, having promised her he won't do anything rash to try to "save" her - ie, get her back to the US. At this point, she's better off getting the care she can THERE than traveling. IMO. He went out to his shop and beat on some steel to straighten it instead.
That is the next phase to get into here at the farm - physical labor, as the weather starts to warm up and looks like it will stay that way more often now. I have taken it upon myself to keep the kitchen clean & functional & sanitized. Bathroom is ready for plumbers... and I have a little more work on the walls to accomplish... then I can move back into that room and use it. Carpenters need to do a little more trim on the wall, from the other side of the bath.
Then I'll get started on the bedroom itself.
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