Covid-19 Isolation Support Thread

3secondmemory

@Suki - my son is autoimmune and was highly exposed. 

He’s a ginger, vegan bi male nurse -  He has an over active thyroid and contact dermatitis- way more alfalfa than alpha! 

But he made it! And went back to work Thursday. 

3 days on and we’re all roasting him on Group chat! Doofus for catching it first and all that! 

If there was one of my children, I thought wasn’t going to make it – it was this son! 🙏🙏🙏🙏

I dreaded him catching this, I doubted he’d survive and I’m not how long he’ll be immune for. . 

Just take one day at a time and remember who you are staying at home for. If it’s all too much, make it personal - saving one person’s life at a time ❤️

suki1964

BooJewels said:

@suki1964 Thanks to your comments about finding a local shop or suppliers, I did rummage through facebook and found exactly what you've said about - a fresh fruit and a meat supplier delivering locally, both who normally supply restaurants.  So I'll use them in a couple of weeks - I've finally managed to get my Asda order updated and I'm hoping it will last for 2 weeks, so I can free a delivery slot for someone else.  

I'm sorry to hear about your daughter - fingers crossed that her symptoms will be modest and she'll settle into dealing with it and therefore will feel calmer as the days pass.  My son's best friend is on about day 10 now and starting to improve, so my worry about him and my son having got it from him is passing too.  Understandably, knowing that you have it initially, must be very frightening.  Funnily enough I fell full length a couple of weeks ago before lock downs and Shielding and all I could think going through the air was 'don't do enough damage to need A&E' and my sister appeared as I was lying there and said "if you need A&E I'm sending you there on your own in a taxi".  Thankfully the only damage was a bruised knee and thumb and a squashed loaf and smashed crisps in the food bag I landed on.

Oh I so glad you weren't badly hurt. I fell down the stairs last August, broke my coccyx and still get twinges now and then.

When I saw she had fallen I begged her not to go to the hospital but she is a worrier and suffers extreme anxiety. I thought I had talked her down but she got worked up again that evening, luckily she was wise enough to take herself down, just not wise enough to realise if she was fit to drive, she wasn't seriously hurt

And this is why its so awful not being able to be with her really. She probably isn't as ill as she thinks, but she is getting herself into a state. Yesterday morning she spoke to her dad and was in good spirits and said she hadn't got any worse. Come the length of the day, being in a room alone, with the internet, she calls all of a panic saying how bad she was getting. So Im doing my best to be sympathetic but reassuring and calm, when her mother also rings her in complete panic mode saying she needs to ring 111 again getting her more stressed and anxious

And in the background I have Mr S, giving off to me a least a thousand times a day for going into work - food production, essential work.

So I guess I was feeling a tad emotional and wound up last night. Thankyou everyone for your kind comments

Im glad my suggestion for alternative food sources has been of help to you Boojewels, I hope others can find the same set ups in their areas with a bit of searching. We in NI have a facebook page where all those offering deliveries are being collated so you just click your area and see who's out there, as well as all the local community groups. Everyone I see popping up I put on share as many of my friends are doing so the word gets out. Theres so much help out there to keep food getting to people, a local car/van dealership has loaned vans to small business so they can do their bit as well for example, the local young farmers are delivering emergency supplies to those in dire need ( foc from local donations), we are all doing out bit for others who cant

YORKSHIRELASS

Hi all
Just joining in if that's OK.  DS1 has spent most of the last 5 months in hospital and has just finished chemotherapy for stage 4 Lymphoma, so is very vulnerable.  The thought of him catching it is terrifying.  We are all in complete lockdown here, except for DH who is still working at the moment (self employed, works outdoors alone and doesn't have contact with anyone).  We managed to get an Asda delivery yesterday so we are OK for food, just have to make this delivery last 10 days until next online shop is booked (we will not be going out to the supermarket if we run out of something).  Our local farm shop is doing deliveries but it is so expensive, and with four of us living on two wages we just cant afford their prices.  A food box for DS would be nice, and it might reassure him a bit (he is worried about everything right now).  I am working from home so trying to focus on that during the week and trying to stay positive.  

BooJewels

Welcome @YORKSHIRELASS - we're similar, in that my husband is currently undergoing chemo for relapsed myeloma so is on the 'extremely vulnerable' list too.  Thankfully, in some ways, he lost his job in December when he became ill then (got flu which became pneumonia and he was in hospital 6 weeks, so we don't want a repeat), so we've not had to make decisions about working - I work from home anyway, not that I've had time to do much lately due to other considerations.  I think things will settle into a routine shortly and we'll all start to feel a bit calmer.

@suki1964   It sounds as though maybe your daughter frets easily, so perhaps her concerns are emotional rather than physical, which doesn't help how you feel when you can't help her, but are less worrying than physical problems that can't be overcome remotely.  You can at least reassure her over the phone.

My fall was silly rather than damaging - thankfully - I just intended it as comic relief really.  We'd been shopping and the only bread was a white toastie loaf and then I fell on it and squashed it.  Although I'm a tad concerned that it actually bounced back overnight, which makes you wonder what is in it!

I don't think there's much been organised locally yet in respect of food distribution - we had one leaflet that seemed to have more need of help than offering it.  Maybe it will change over time.

greenbee

oceanspirit said:

hollydays said:

From personal experience at the moment. Please DONT use this time to do noisy diy. My neighbour is driving me to despair right now.

This needs the blue hair raising smillie from the old site.

Greenbee, we just had untoasted buckwheat as a rice alternative to go with stir fry then had it cold for lunch the following day, drizzled with flax oil and made into a rice salad alternative.  It didn't go stodgy, but then I didn't cook it absorption method as was suggested but used lots of water and drained it (water went very pink).  It seemed to have a buttery flavour with a bitter aftertaste.  I thought it might do a good risotto alternative so might try that next week.

I followed your instructions, and it's worked well. I drained, rinsed and put a bit of butter in the pan back on the cooling hotplate while I finished the rest of the meal (lamb tagine and kale). So hopefully I'll get it used up over the next 13 weeks

Miró

Starting to feel really worried now as I have no milk, fresh fruit, veg or bread left.  No supermarket slots available with any supermarket at all here now and the local Waitrose is being reported as constantly having queue's all round the car park for the one in/ one out system.  I'm in voluntary isolation due to potential respiratory problems and age.  I didn't get the NHS England letter re the 'extremely vulnerable' but I have self referred online. There have been a couple of groups asking for volunteer helpers on Facebook but no details of how to actually access help, also had a leaflet with the same thing.  What does one do when there is no family or neighbour to help? 

greenbee

Contact the people asking for volunteers asking them whether they can help you. 

C_J

Miro, try looking at covidmutualaid.org to see if there is a group of volunteers near you.

Do you not know anyone at all you could call? A nearby village or corner shop who might deliver? 

C_J

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BooJewels said:

We've just said the same about giving anything we don't need to a local food bank - it's only fair.  It's fresh fruit that I've run out of this week - my husband has been eating a lot recently and we're down to tins and frozen now.

I placed an Asda order a few days ago for Monday, but it was incomplete and I thought it might be easier to amend it, once placed.  Not so.  It seems to snag every time at the final 'handshake' of the payment process, even though I verified it for the initial payment and verify it with the bank for the new amount (not at this time of day, in the early hours).  Now they're accepting gift cards for payment, I thought I'd try that, thinking it would be an internal Asda process (it tells me the card balance and transaction value), but it still requires a backup card in case the gift card balance is insufficient - even though the numbers are there and could be used.  It seems that some modest tweaks in the programming might make that work better and cut down load on their server processes and resources.

I had a similar problem last week, and it was the browser. I typically use chrome on my mobile and it didn't like. When I switched to the phones built in browser, it processed it immediately and without issue. Hope that helps for future orders