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nodramaqueenWell, now we're all fighting to contain and survive this Covid 19 pandemic, and normal life for many of us just has gone to hell.
In my area, folks lost their damn minds and started hoarding food and paper goods as soon as the first virus cases hit Seattle. The shelves were wiped bare here in my area in a matter of several days. I personally didn't expect that kind of behavior, so I have been scrambling almost every day to obtain food and toilet paper. My bad, I guess, for expecting rational behavior from adults. I have not had hand sanitizer or medical masks until two days ago because there just wasnt any. I went to my neurologist this week and she gave me a couple of masks and I found two tiny bottles of hand sanitizer at a dollar store. My doctor was horrified that I have been going to the grocery stores in particular with no PPE-- I am high risk for the virus as I am immunosuppressed. Well, I would have used masks if I could have found some! I've got to eat, so I have to go to the stores...
I am forbidden to go out without a mask. My doctor wants me to shop online for groceries and then pick them up at the stores. She was really upset with me. She says if I contract the corona virus, that I will not do well. Okay, now I am scared. Geez. I was always cautious, but I have worked with folks with AIDS, MRSA, MDDS, VRE, Hep C, etc, so I suppose I was somewhat complacent. But as has been pointed out to me-- I always had PPE in those situations. Anyhow...
I am hanging in there. I had my third spinal fusion done on February 3 of this year on my neck, secondary to a work injury from June of last year. What a mess. My former employer has been fighting me ever since then about taking responsibility for the injury. Now the state is involved (on my side) and I am unable to work at all partly due to the healing surgery and partly due to Covid 19. Oh well, more time to do projects around the house...
I also lost my foster dog about two weeks ago. She was a permanent foster because she was in heart failure so we could not adopt her out (I foster dogs for a big local rescue), so I took her to live out her days with me. I had her two years but what got her in the end was some unidentified stomach ailment. She was the happiest dog I have ever had and she fought for months to live, always in good spirits, until the day that she wasn't. That was the day she was done, and I took her to the vet to be euthanized. The icon on this post is her. My Tootsie Roll. Sigh.
Well, not much else going on here. Hahahahaha. My neighbors and I are practicing social distancing. We stand in the middle of our little cul de sac or in the yard with about ten feet between us, and we gossip for hours every couple of days.
In my area, folks lost their damn minds and started hoarding food and paper goods as soon as the first virus cases hit Seattle. The shelves were wiped bare here in my area in a matter of several days. I personally didn't expect that kind of behavior, so I have been scrambling almost every day to obtain food and toilet paper. My bad, I guess, for expecting rational behavior from adults. I have not had hand sanitizer or medical masks until two days ago because there just wasnt any. I went to my neurologist this week and she gave me a couple of masks and I found two tiny bottles of hand sanitizer at a dollar store. My doctor was horrified that I have been going to the grocery stores in particular with no PPE-- I am high risk for the virus as I am immunosuppressed. Well, I would have used masks if I could have found some! I've got to eat, so I have to go to the stores...
I am forbidden to go out without a mask. My doctor wants me to shop online for groceries and then pick them up at the stores. She was really upset with me. She says if I contract the corona virus, that I will not do well. Okay, now I am scared. Geez. I was always cautious, but I have worked with folks with AIDS, MRSA, MDDS, VRE, Hep C, etc, so I suppose I was somewhat complacent. But as has been pointed out to me-- I always had PPE in those situations. Anyhow...
I am hanging in there. I had my third spinal fusion done on February 3 of this year on my neck, secondary to a work injury from June of last year. What a mess. My former employer has been fighting me ever since then about taking responsibility for the injury. Now the state is involved (on my side) and I am unable to work at all partly due to the healing surgery and partly due to Covid 19. Oh well, more time to do projects around the house...
I also lost my foster dog about two weeks ago. She was a permanent foster because she was in heart failure so we could not adopt her out (I foster dogs for a big local rescue), so I took her to live out her days with me. I had her two years but what got her in the end was some unidentified stomach ailment. She was the happiest dog I have ever had and she fought for months to live, always in good spirits, until the day that she wasn't. That was the day she was done, and I took her to the vet to be euthanized. The icon on this post is her. My Tootsie Roll. Sigh.
Well, not much else going on here. Hahahahaha. My neighbors and I are practicing social distancing. We stand in the middle of our little cul de sac or in the yard with about ten feet between us, and we gossip for hours every couple of days.
