Today is day 3 with 81 days to go …. ¼ of a year
and oh my but I just want to go get a Costa drive thru pick up a cup of the
hard stuff and then perhaps wander around Wellington Farm Shop and spend way
too much on random stuff. Even the MS Therapy Centre is not open for the next
month for my weekend Oxygen Therapy.
My only trip outside this week will be for my
monthly bloods are at 8:35am tomorrow – I
have to leave the house and go to the surgery for that (a doctors surgery is
what you guys call a clinic – not surgery as in chopping into people) All our
Doctors’ appointments are telephone only now but the nurse appointments for
bloods are still in person – I’m the first appointment of the day and there’s
going to be worst case 1 other person there as there are 2 nurses so pretty
safe since I intend to touch nothing and not go near anybody at all.
I do have a safe
place to ‘go out’ with the dogs, we’ve used a secure dog walking park for the
last few years and because it’s private hire there’s nobody else there. There
are disposable gloves to use letting yourself in and out so we don’t have to
touch the locks, Gareth still isn’t overly happy at the prospect of me going so
I haven’t been yet to reduce his concern.
Gareth was a soldier, he did tours in Iraq and
Afghan he had rockets fired at him, was threatened with guns, and in his words
‘this scares him more because it’s the people he loves who are at the most
risk'. He’s being so great about it but with his worries about his Dad (he is
SPMS and VERY prone to picking up bugs) and his mum is a smoker and often
recovering from a cold or coming down with one because she’s picked them up
from his dad and his grandmother who’s elderly and frail.
The last thing I want to do is give him more
anxieties about me.The supermarket shelves are blitzed of everything and anything its like the post Zombie Apocalyptic scenes from 28 Days Later. My nod to ‘stockpiling’ was that on my last Ocado home delivery I ordered 2 chorizo’s, some milk powder and 2 lots of bread flour (Gareth is great at making bread – which is just as well because there’s none in the shops) we have plenty of stuff to keep us going, there’s no real need for anything other than the odd bottle of wine.
This is going to be life changing for everyone,
nothing will be the same going forwards. Homes, families, finances, business is
all going to be changed, the potential mental health repercussions of distancing,
isolation and bereavement will reach far into the future. I’m hoping that as a
species us humans can deal with this in a more dignified and caring manner
going forwards than some have so far.
Blimey I’m dark today …. Time to stop that and
lighten up, the good thing about working from home is that my ‘background
noise’ of choice today is back to back to back episodes of Pitbulls and
Parolee’s – lovely fluffies and happy endings – how can that be wrong.
Oh and since we all have so much time on our hands
now we’re working from home, not commuting a very lovely lady in Texas called
Amy has started a blog – a new Lemmie in a Covid-19 world, new fears, new
challenges as well as the same old crap that we MS’ers we all put up with on
this journey. Take a moment to have a read, perhaps say hi so she knows you’re
not a robot that would be lovely – the more people who ‘Pay it Forward’ with
their experiences the better. https://amyhsroad.blogspot.com
So anyway I’ll leave you with one last thought as
Korona-geddon continues ….. as usual as per my slightly sick and twisted sense
of humour ….. well please take this in
the spirit it’s meant and hopefully it will make you smile xxx
Irelands response to Social Separation
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