12-01-2020, 06:17 AM
Please EVERYONE use all and as much of the information that Charon has made available!!
I spent Thanksgiving alone as is my living situation. I had invitations to go to be with a couple of friends, but they
all had family coming that are not there normally. I thanked my friends but told them Next Year!! And after having spent most of the weekend consoling a very good friend who is also my neighbor I am so very glad of my choice!
The lady next door is 69. Has some health issues as we do as we get to that age. She called me the Sunday before Thanksgiving and said she was not feeling very good. Just body aches, etc. Well, she has 2 daughters that are married and both have 3 kids. One family lives in N. Carolina and the other in Virginia. She told me that Sunday she hoped she was not getting a cold because they were all going to be flying in for Thanksgiving and staying with her.
My first thought was NO!!
So I pushed her and told her to go get a Covid test THAT DAY (Sunday) hoping she could get results quick. She went and got tested at the ER. And we spoke everyday including Thanksgiving morning and she still was not feeling any better.
Long story short, the family arrived, the daughters made dinner while Mom rested. Everyone left Friday to get back home. And she was getting sicker this whole time.
She called me Saturday around 1:00. She had just received the call on her test result. She is positive. So she exposed her whole family for 3 days! Her feelings of guilt were terrible as she cried on the phone to me.
Today my doorbell rang and it was an EMT. She was being transported to the hospital and she asked that someone come tell me. He had all his PPE on and I didn't open my glass screen door when I saw him. I knew why he was there. We just talked thru the glass and I sent him back with a message telling her to get better quick and get back home.
I have spoken to her daughters. They told me they would let me know how things were going. They are both scared to death of getting sick. They are both staying home with husbands and kids for the 14 days and they are doing a whole lot of praying!!
I don't think I will ever get to have a summer night sitting outside with my neighbor ever again. I am praying really hard for this woman. A cancer survivor. But this virus took her down in about 7 days!!! At this point my only way of knowing anything will be when one of her girls calls me.
So PLEASE avoid a repeat of this type of story with the upcoming Holidays!!!! I was not happy sitting here alone watching TV! And I didn't make a turkey for just me. Just had some things I enjoy. But being alone is not so bad when you look at the results of this type of tragedy.
STAY SAFE. STAY HEALTHY.
Hugs to ALL!!!!
Slick
(Didn't mean to go on forever, just felt the story and the reality were worth sharing - if it makes one person think!!)
I spent Thanksgiving alone as is my living situation. I had invitations to go to be with a couple of friends, but they
all had family coming that are not there normally. I thanked my friends but told them Next Year!! And after having spent most of the weekend consoling a very good friend who is also my neighbor I am so very glad of my choice!
The lady next door is 69. Has some health issues as we do as we get to that age. She called me the Sunday before Thanksgiving and said she was not feeling very good. Just body aches, etc. Well, she has 2 daughters that are married and both have 3 kids. One family lives in N. Carolina and the other in Virginia. She told me that Sunday she hoped she was not getting a cold because they were all going to be flying in for Thanksgiving and staying with her.
My first thought was NO!!
So I pushed her and told her to go get a Covid test THAT DAY (Sunday) hoping she could get results quick. She went and got tested at the ER. And we spoke everyday including Thanksgiving morning and she still was not feeling any better.
Long story short, the family arrived, the daughters made dinner while Mom rested. Everyone left Friday to get back home. And she was getting sicker this whole time.
She called me Saturday around 1:00. She had just received the call on her test result. She is positive. So she exposed her whole family for 3 days! Her feelings of guilt were terrible as she cried on the phone to me.
Today my doorbell rang and it was an EMT. She was being transported to the hospital and she asked that someone come tell me. He had all his PPE on and I didn't open my glass screen door when I saw him. I knew why he was there. We just talked thru the glass and I sent him back with a message telling her to get better quick and get back home.
I have spoken to her daughters. They told me they would let me know how things were going. They are both scared to death of getting sick. They are both staying home with husbands and kids for the 14 days and they are doing a whole lot of praying!!
I don't think I will ever get to have a summer night sitting outside with my neighbor ever again. I am praying really hard for this woman. A cancer survivor. But this virus took her down in about 7 days!!! At this point my only way of knowing anything will be when one of her girls calls me.
So PLEASE avoid a repeat of this type of story with the upcoming Holidays!!!! I was not happy sitting here alone watching TV! And I didn't make a turkey for just me. Just had some things I enjoy. But being alone is not so bad when you look at the results of this type of tragedy.
STAY SAFE. STAY HEALTHY.
Hugs to ALL!!!!
Slick
(Didn't mean to go on forever, just felt the story and the reality were worth sharing - if it makes one person think!!)