dazzledbylight
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Glad to hear they are out of the hospital! Good luck to your mom!Mom and grandma were released from hospital. Grandma went to nursing home to rehab her hip. She never really had more than a cough from covid. 95 and won’t ever die i think which saddens her. She was hoping this was it.
My mom still on oxygen and said she can walk once around the block and feel ok. She’s back to annoying me over the phone so i know she’s feeling better.
Just never know with this virus on who survives or doesn’t. But glad to know she’ll be around for some more time
Sorry about how your grandma feels.
I hope I can make it to 94 1/2 in generally pretty good to good shape so I can celebrate my sister's 90th. My mom's side has often gotten up to their early 90s, my dad mid 80's but he did something stupid that down the road cost him some years. Plus as long as I have my multi varied artistic and crafting abilities there's endless doing, experimenting, and trying new things. With the internet I talk and engage in with people from their late '70s+ down to people in their 20's in our various visual creative persuits. And I have 2 f2f friends who are 14 - 20 yrs younger so hopefully they'll be around. Plus cousins who I love in their late 30's to early 40s - we have a great v(not this year) Xmas get together. We're on line w each other on fb, too.
I'm retired. Some of my younger relatives and acquaintances they're a mix of working from home, a few have businesses at home. I'm not sure about some others...This is the thing that a lot of people (who haven't been back at all) fail to understand. The office you're going to is most certainly not the office you left.
I've been in maybe a half a dozen times since March. It sucks. Nobody is there, the kitchens are off limits, the restaurants in the lobby are closed, you have to follow arrows around the hall making for a ridiculous 5 minute hike to the women's washroom - where only one person is allowed in at a time. You can't meet with anyone so you're sitting in your office on a Teams call with somebody down the hall...why the hell would I put on a suit and do my make up when I could stay at home in sweat pants.
Even post vaccine, most businesses will have some kind of hybrid model. Talk to large commercial real estate lessors and you'll see how many businesses are downsizing or outright eliminating office space. It's staggering.
But I've listened on public radio to a bunch of discussions on the post-quarantine effects of office work.
It makes me unhappy to see some of my younger and favorite cousins running around maskless with their friends. But I'm not going there with them.It's not Karens, it's the crunchy granola middle-upper middle women who go to mom and tot classes with other women who sell them essential oils and rail against vaccines. Very high overlap with the "breastfeed at all costs" crowd and so on.
It's really maddening because most of them are privileged and many are even highly educated.
Good Luck over there, LJT!Level of education seems to have very little to do with people's rejection of vaccines.
I work with nurses and other members of staff that work on cancer trials, including cancer trials involving the use of mRNA based vaccines, which the likes of Pfizer have repurposed for their current vaccine, but are hesitant about getting vaccinated or have nebulous non-specific concerns and don't want to get it.
There is a weird emotional response related to it that doesn't seem to be affected by any educational attainment.
Hoping to hear in the next month or two about getting vaccinated, since the UK is getting receipt of about 800,000 doses next week, depends a bit how the prioritisation works out.
On a much lighter note, Adam's covid isolation look is becoming very Santa/David Letterman
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Omg! I never would have recognized him!
Ah.... damn it! So sorry to here this!We're officially a COVID household now too.
My son came home from school on Wednesday pale as a ghost, so lethargic that he could barely stand, deep purple spots under his eyes and complained that his legs were hurting. He had no appetite and was totally out of it, so not even thinking of COVID when we took him to emerg. The doctor there ran a leukemia panel (which shaved at least 10 years off my life) and said as a by the way thing, let's run a COVID test. Well today (72 hrs later, do better Toronto) they notified us that he's COVID+ and scheduled testing for my husband, daughter and myself. Husband and I are fairly ill, and our daughter remains asymptomatic. We all have totally different symptoms, which is maddening.
After the initial shock, I almost felt a perverse sense of relief to have it over with.
Good luck to you, your immediate family, your parents, etc!
You live near a hospital, right?3,054 deaths today. I can't even anymore.
Damn drumph & Co to hell for their criminal neigligence!
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