Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[electrycmonk]

/Slaps forehead "Doh!"

Thanksgiving is now ~3 weeks away.
Wife and kiddos are in self quarantine with:
1 positive and sick
1 positive & asymptomatic
2 currently officially negative
Down at the lake house...... We don't know IF they will be healthy enough for us to get together for Thanksgiving as of right now.

Elder son will - likely as usual spend some of Thanksgiving with is Dad's side at "Me-maw & Paw-paws" and the return late that night.....

So ugh. Even in the navy(active duty) Holidays has shipmates around and there was the chow hall for the holiday meals too...... Dang this is really making me feel flat.

 

[cheepteach]

it's all round crappy! politics, corona, stupid people, all pulling my sanity apart!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Our real "thanksgiving" was at mabon six weeks ago. We'll have a wee turkey day in, just the three of us I think.
Honestly, Thanksgiving has been a miserable time with family for a long time... I've had at least two panic-attack-spend-half-the-day-in-tears level traumatic incidents on thanksgiving day as an adult... And my great great grandma was native American, so we grew up on stories from my mom about the Trail of Tears and the genocide of the first nations people on thanksgiving morning while I did my mini page activities sheet that came in the newspaper covered in happy pilgrims. TBH, I feel a serious sense of dread around the whole holiday. So keeping it terribly low key is VERY much OK by me. I'll be thrilled to just eat some coffee cake, watch the facsimile of a parade/dog show they have, maybe watch Jurassic Park, and snack on an early dinner with video games and pie until bed. Just me, the boys and the dogs. It sounds GREAT to me.

But I am sad that Yule will be a rough time, though. And my birthday too. And my 11 year anniversary with G. *sighs*

 

[CapricornFarm]

And the results are IN!
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Drum Roll Please .....
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POSITIVE!
Yay.
Not.
I feel like crap ... but at least now I know why. DD is negative. DS is on his way home from work, but will wait until next week to test. He has to quarantine, regardless, so why waste the test when someone else may need it more.
Going to bed. I'll catch you all, later ...

Hope you have a mild case and recover quickly. My doctor wouldn't see me for this sinus infection without a Covid test. I tested negative. No surprise.

 

[electrycmonk]

Our real "thanksgiving" was at mabon six weeks ago. We'll have a wee turkey day in, just the three of us I think.
Honestly, Thanksgiving has been a miserable time with family for a long time... I've had at least two panic-attack-spend-half-the-day-in-tears level traumatic incidents on thanksgiving day as an adult... And my great great grandma was native American, so we grew up on stories from my mom about the Trail of Tears and the genocide of the first nations people on thanksgiving morning while I did my mini page activities sheet that came in the newspaper covered in happy pilgrims. TBH, I feel a serious sense of dread around the whole holiday. So keeping it terribly low key is VERY much OK by me. I'll be thrilled to just eat some coffee cake, watch the facsimile of a parade/dog show they have, maybe watch Jurassic Park, and snack on an early dinner with video games and pie until bed. Just me, the boys and the dogs. It sounds GREAT to me.

But I am sad that Yule will be a rough time, though. And my birthday too. And my 11 year anniversary with G. *sighs*

Given the"history lesson" on the vikings with in the area surrounding Greenland etal.
Now we have more stuff about pacific ocean travelers etc as well..... That definitely muddies the "historical waters" more and more every so often.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

I'm down to using my preventive steroid inhaler a single puff a day with clear lungs. Haven't used my albuterol inhaler in almost a year.

As a fellow asthmatic, that's amazing! Well done!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Given the"history lesson" on the vikings with in the area surrounding Greenland etal.
Now we have more stuff about pacific ocean travelers etc as well..... That definitely muddies the "historical waters" more and more every so often.

Oh yeah. We learned about that too, that info's been around for a while. My mom would have me read the mini page to her and then she would laugh and scoff at it and correct all the inaccuracies with native history lessons.... Then we'd watch the parade and dog show while she cooked and we stayed out of her hair. National Day of Mourning was the, well, morning, and Thanksgiving was our suburban American evening. It was an interesting dichotomy to grow up in.

 

[IamRainey]

As a fellow asthmatic, that's amazing! Well done!

...and it only took about 35 years!

 

[MROO]

All of the above, plus sleep on your stomach as much as you can. It can help in keeping your oxygenation at the max level. It's turned the tide when some patients were at a critical level. If you keep your oxygenation up from the beginning you're marshaling all your body's resources to stay ahead of the virus.

I can't sleep on my stomach ... too much ... ummm ... padding ... but sleeping on my side definitely helps. Crazy Dog has come in very handy as a pillow bolster. With pillows behind and a dog on one side and a plie o cats on the other, I stay pretty stable all night. Now, if I could only stay asleep, as well!
The fitful sleep and the foggy head are the worst, so far. The grogginess has my coordination all messed up. It takes forever to type; I sometimes have to search for words to finish sentences - my brother thinks that's absolutely hysterical - and my stairway is positively evil. Every time I look down it, it moves! I'm going to try a short walk outside tomorrow. The bronchitis has me a bit worried, but overall, I'm doing better than I anticipated. Fingers crossed and prayers sent ahead!

 

[MROO]

Do you have an oxygen reader at home? One of those finger reader thingies, cheap, at many drug stores. get someone to buy one and drop it off for you, if possible.
Mary

EXCELLENT idea!