Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
Of course not when I'm out. That would be a bit ridiculous. Can you just picture it? In a grocery store line up or something. "Ah excuse me folks but I'm gonna grab a quick nap here, go to the next aisle"
I thought my sleep pattern was bad, but yours...ouch! I usually sleep for about 3 to 4 hrs meaning I am up around 3 am or 4 am then back to sleep around 5 to 5:30 am waking up around 9 am on a good day 7:30 am on a bad day!
shell - that's similar to me though these days 3 hrs is about tops for the first phase. I often go back to sleep around 5 and sleep till 9. That totals 7 hrs which is OK.
For years I worked on 5 hrs sleep as I couldn't sleep in. That was no fun. Retirement has its benefits.
So happy to read about people getting the vaccine. One day it will be up here.
I only have the sore arm and a bit tired from my second shingles vaccine.
I am afraid if I get the first, there will be none available for the booster. Wonder how many will have that problem. Kinda crazy plan, if you ask me.
We were told we would have our boosters three weeks after the first shot. Then on the day of the jab, when I was lined up registering for my booster slot, the clinic nurse offered me a date in March. Eh?! I said - I thought it was in three weeks? "They changed the guidance yesterday. It's three months now."
People are increasingly frightened and frazzled and I've noticed tempers and nerves disintegrating all around. I think the only answer is to take even deeper breaths than normal, keep smiling, and do what you can.
At last at last, though, our service has been given PCR testing kits for all of us, and we are to collect our three weeks' worth of supplies on Monday. So every Thursday morning from now on I'll be stuffing a swab up my nose and posting it* off to the test centre; but the actually painful bit is waiting for the result to come back! We were all tested last Tuesday and I am very sorry to say that one of our number was positive (of course we're not told names); grim for us and worrying for our clients, but virus gonna virus...
*the swab. Not my nose.
"Find an absolutely certain cure that I personally won't have to take! Do it immediately! And tell me the long-term effects or I will sue!" To hear is to obey, o voter...
I am shot!
B negative.
Hubby and I plus our daughters are A+.
How long after the second dose is a person considered having immunity?
Thanks, I realize everyone still has to wear protection, especially with new mutations around.
I was curious if you had any inside information as a person working in a major hospital.
At least, we have vaccines available now. I am grateful for that.
I have more fear of COVID than the vaccine.
COVID is so unpredictable. Everyone reacts differently to it.
So many have died. It’s so sad. We all want it to be behind us.
I feel so badly for those who have died and their loved ones.
I am so grateful to people like you who care for patients. You are angels.
I find it unsettling when people downplay how serious COVID is, especially regarding the number of deaths and not recognizing the agony that families are going through.
Before COVID, people could visit their loved ones in hospitals or facilities when they were sick and dying.
People weren’t dying alone in mass numbers.
Funerals were planned and families could grieve in a normal way. Now people can’t even hug one another at a funeral.
There is nothing normal about this. It is heartbreaking.
Thank you for all that you do for patients.
As to side effects.. today I am completely exhausted. As in can barely move.. we went out for breakfast with our best couple friends and it was all I could do. I spent the rest of the day barely moving in front of the TV, except for one load of laundry. If this is the worst I am happy, and if the second shot is worse, I have a week off after it. hopefully just the tiredness and maybe some aches next time if I am lucky? I have no pain, not even at the injection site.. yay! I had the Pfizer shot
I was able to transfer our original appointments to an elderly couple I know who weren't able to get timely appointmets!
I have never been a proponent of medical intervention for anxiety and stress, but when I became overwhelmed by caring for my Aunt and my Mother and the ensuing physical ramifications of being worn down, on my Doctors advise I gave in!
I'm so happy I did!!
I am now looking forward to so many things! Planting in the spring. Fly fishing when the ice is off. Auditions for the summer musical at our community theater!
When you're overwhelmed, you truly have a hard time seeing the forest for the trees!!!
The reason I tell you this, is because there is hope. And there's no shame in seeking a little help!!!
Caregiving isn't for wimps!!
It's ok to do what ever it takes to make yourself feel whole again!!
We're all in this great void of unappreciated and overwhelmed people!
Do whatever you can to care for yourself!!
Many blessings!!
She tested positive for Covid today. She feels horrible.
She thought it was her allergies but when she couldn’t taste her coffee she got tested.
So, she has quarantined herself to the guest bedroom. Her SO does not want to get tested! She says he is stubborn. So, I asked if he was going to quarantine or spread it to others if he was positive. She says he is quarantining too.
Why would someone refuse getting tested if their partner has tested positive? I don’t get that at all!