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

[TropicalBabies]

In my experience, thundershirts may help a bit, but aren't going to manage a very fearful dog. Better to spend time counterconditioning, and medicating, at least for the worst times.
Mary

Almost exactly what doc said!
We are going with all of the above! Shirts, meds, counterconditioning, probiotics, more meds... maybe even some aroma therapy. Looks like we have a fulltime 50lb house dog living with us in our little cottage. The couch is def off limits, cats and people and pillows only.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

All our dogs are house dogs - it's illegal where I live to keep them outdoors, and they wouldn't be thrilled anyhow. Old Dog is like 13 and she weighs 65lbs. She's ALSO the daintiest of the dogs, takes up the least space on the couch, almost never knocks things over, drinks from her bowl and eats her food without spilling, chews carefully, the whole nine yards. I can't help but think they're happy indoors. They always look so cozy and they still play inside - just in "safe" spaces where there's nothing to knock over.

She DOES get grumbly when asked to move out of her seat, but she's old and arthritic. I can't blame her for it - I grumble when I have to move too.

Costco has some great dog beds for really cheap if you need a good place to get one.

 

[TropicalBabies]

All our dogs are house dogs - it's illegal where I live to keep them outdoors, and they wouldn't be thrilled anyhow. Old Dog is like 13 and she weighs 65lbs. She's ALSO the daintiest of the dogs, takes up the least space on the couch, almost never knocks things over, drinks from her bowl and eats her food without spilling, chews carefully, the whole nine yards. I can't help but think they're happy indoors. They always look so cozy and they still play inside - just in "safe" spaces where there's nothing to knock over.

She DOES get grumbly when asked to move out of her seat, but she's old and arthritic. I can't blame her for it - I grumble when I have to move too.

Costco has some great dog beds for really cheap if you need a good place to get one.

Yep. I am a couch warden but I have to say he does have a hall pass on our bed. Easier to wash I guess?? I know, makes little to no sense. Our home is tiny... 520- 540 sq total on the inside. We used to have their beautiful bambo bed outside our window on the good sized back deck till they started trying to climb through the window. So we moved the bed to the front deck and it was much of the same, so we bought him a cot and he sleeps in the shop with a nightlight and on top of blankets.
If we had a bigger home... we would def get more dogs lol.

and if it was really big they could have their own room.

 

[MROO]

I didn't post this the other day because there was too much other happy stuff going on here, but...my friend's hubby lost his covid battle. It's a senseless loss too. *bites tongue*

Hospitals here are still busting at the seams. A friend of mine took a fall today. Went to her local hospital and has a brain bleed. No ICU room for her there so transferred to the big regional hospital system and still waiting for an ICU space.

Our hospitals are begging people to stay home for the holidays and have been begging people to wear masks and social distance. On the rare occasions I go out for supplies I may see a handful wearing masks....if that. Most are strutting around like covid schmovid.
Meanwhile there are freezer trucks outside the hospitals and people with other emergencies can't get hospital space. SMH.

I am so sorry. Prayers for your friend ... and you. Hang in there, Snappy.

 

[MROO]

That's actually pretty much how it's done now. I had double knee replacement a year ago (just pre-Covid) and it was outpatient. When you're conscious again they want you to get up and move. When they see that you can do that, you get released with instructions to move every day.

The more you get up and move, the better your eventual recovery and mobility are.

My Mom was sent home the next day with hers, so I get the mobility thing, but this gal is a daily dialysis patient high up on the transplant list. I'm no doctor, but I see NO WAY she should be sent home without at least a 24 hour watch. Thanks, Covid.
Rant finished!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I've given up. Having covid totally FRIED my hair. I don't have split ends, the entire shaft is frizzed. All those lovely curls are dry, wiry and constantly snarling together. Deep conditioning and oil treatments aren't helping. Tonight, I'll give it Gramma's old-world mayonnaise treatment. If that doesn't work, I may just go ahead and dye it blue or turquoise or hot pink or some other radical color, "just because." I've always wanted to do it, but never had the nerve. If it's all got to be cut off when this is over, I might as well give it a shot. We'll see if I actually get the cojones to do it!

If the shaft is split, you may just have to wait for new, healthy hair to grow out from the scalp and cut off the fried hair as it grows out.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Hey! I've got a bathtub sitting in my front yard.

More than a month ago my ancient washing machine broke when I tried to wash a heavy bathroom rug. We had babied those machines along for years because newer machines have gotten much larger and they don't fit in my tight laundry room. But it couldn't be done anymore. That machine was irretrievably fried.

So I've had a construction crew here for a couple weeks now re-configuring my whole laundry room so the new machines can be relocated to a different wall where they won't vibrate in front of the door and barricade the room closed forever.

Monday my new laundry machines come and I'll be able to wash clothes for the first time in a month. Guess what I'll be doing from then until Christmas...

Meanwhile, while we've got construction going, we bit the bullet and engaged to get a bathroom done as well. We suspected that black mold had developed inside the walls. Happily, it was all on the surface! But that room got -- and remains -- gutted too.

Today the bathtub arrived. It's too big to fit in the garage that's bursting to the gunnels with other building materials and various cabinets waiting to go back into the laundry room. It had to go somewhere until the floor and walls get re-tiled. So it's sitting in my front yard. I guess the worst thing that can happen is it will get all wet. But it should be up to water! I just hope the neighbors can cope for a week or so...

Maybe I should put a tree in it, add lights and call it a Christmas decoration.

Call it a manger and put the Baby in it.

 

[Cynthia12]

 

[BigBlueHen53]

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And a Merry Christmas to you, Miss Cynthia! ❤❤

 

[electrycmonk]

I think this year I need to find a song by Wierd Al that I have not heard in over a decade..... "Christmas at ground zero."

Especially after I read this on twitter tonight.....

Enjoy y'all....