Thanks for asking, Nemosmom! I'm in pretty good shape with the social distancing. The store where I work part-time is closed till the end of the month, and we are being paid for the hours we were scheduled to work. The weather has been really nice, and I've been able to get out and bicycle or walk, when I can get over my anxiety enough to do so. And that has been daily so far!
The rest of what follows is maybe more than folks want to hear about. I have debated sharing it here, where we can discuss things without having to tell the whole world (as on Facebook, for example).
What has me very stressed out is that both of my parents were in the hospital with pneumonia last week, halfway across the country from where I am. My mother had gone in before any news of covid-19. In fact, she had been in the hospital and then out and then back in again, beginning the first week in February. Then last week, my dad came down with pneumonia and went to the hospital. The doctor treated him as a presumptive case of covid-19, and had both of my parents tested for it. I was absolutely distraught.
Today things are looking up quite a bit. Both tests came back negative, and my mother is being released back to the health care center at her retirement community, and Dad has improved since last week. My mother's dementia has progressed a lot since I saw her in January. With Dad in the hospital, and then recuperating at the health center, too, once he is released, I will be figuring out how to take care of anything that he would be doing but can't. (I am their only child.) I can't visit the retirement community or the hospital, so for now, I'm staying out here on the West Coast, while they are in the Midwest. I'm actually grateful for the time off work right now.
