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What did life look like for you two years ago?

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Promisemeyouwontfollowme · 03/03/2022 11:47

I was wondering and if I’m honest to my shame really hoping they’d close the schools (in a very difficult personal situation.) Listened to the news a lot. Life was just starting to change.

How about you?

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lifeuphigh · 03/03/2022 11:53

Waiting for lockdown (it was obviously coming by this point, and I couldn't believe how many people were saying 'it's just the flu' 'it'll blow over in a month'). Absolutely devouring the news, which I regret because it made me more anxious than I needed to be. DD had two events - a birthday party, and an indoor sporting event - which must've been the first week of March, and I remember taking her to them and it felt a bit wrong. The atmosphere was very uneasy. I'm in Scotland if it makes any difference - I'm pretty sure our schools were closed before the English ones.

JuneBug94 · 03/03/2022 11:55

I was a few days away from my first embryo transfer and hoping the clinic wouldn't close! It did close a couple of days after.
Thankfully my now 16m/o DD is running around next to me!

I was full of unknown. A bit of denial and I remember driving to the clinic in Harley street took us no time and the whole of london was a ghost town.
Glad things are getting back to normal now!

AgathaMystery · 03/03/2022 11:56

Working in a huge teaching hospital and waiting for the sky to fall. Learning how to Don & doff PPE in emergencies and working out how we would do AGP in dire emergencies.

I was working a lot. 80 odd hours (which continued until a few weeks ago) because being at home have me headspace and it was too stressful to be able to think.

Going into the garage for a cry after work before putting on my parenting face and going in the house all chirpy.

DowntonCrabby · 03/03/2022 11:59

We were wondering if a 90th birthday party would go ahead on the 15th. So glad the birthday girl went ahead with the plans, we then didn’t see her for 18 months.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 03/03/2022 12:03

Getting slightly worried with DH being abroad.
Relieved my parents had returned from their cruise safely!
I'd admit to buying some extra food
Trying to hide the fear from DDs. Planning my youngest DDs birthday party knowing it was unlikely to ever happen.

Shes finally getting that party!

IntendingWell · 03/03/2022 12:05

I was oblivious to the fact my seemingly healthy dad would drop down dead in a few days. And most of my worries revolved around how a lockdown would affect his mental health as he was grieving the loss of my mum.

It doesn't seem like two years ago at all.

CoodleMoodle · 03/03/2022 12:10

I was half worrying about the situation, and half preoccupied with sorting out DD's birthday (next week). She had her special day, her presents & cake and her party, and then everything closed the week after that. Once the birthday stuff was done I went into panic mode about the actual problems of the world!

DS was only about 18mo and, whilst I thought it was a good idea to close the schools, I was dreading the idea of having to homeschool DD and deal with DS at the same time. Turns out I was right because it was hideous.

FourChimneys · 03/03/2022 12:16

I was busy making plans to close my business down temporarily. Fortunately it has thrived.

Also encouraging adult DC and their partners to decide in advance where they were going to be during the inevitable lockdown. One pair made a very hurried flat move at the last minute.

Bawheed · 03/03/2022 12:17

I was entering the third trimester of my first pregnancy and was really worried about what was going on. When work called and told me not to come in (before furlough but on full pay) I was really relieved and a bit excited if I'm honest.

BigSandyBalls2015 · 03/03/2022 12:18

I think I was a bit head in the sand about it all. I genuinely didn't believe it would become as big a thing as it has.

DD was at uni in halls and she mentioned she'd be heading home. I assumed for a short time, then she said she had been told to empty her room as it wasn't going to be short term. That really brought it home to me.

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 03/03/2022 12:22

I was engaged with no wedding planned so at least we got round to getting married. My dad was still alive thoughSad. Got sent home from work with a niggling cough and the pharmacy had run out of thermometer.

TheVanguardSix · 03/03/2022 12:23

I was in ICU and worried about the nurse’s cough! I distinctly remember that. Another nurse was worried about her brother attending mosque because of coronavirus.
I remember a patient on the ward testing positive and being worried about that. I think I was just… worried!
And then by the 17th I had to leave the hospital (wasn’t recovered yet) because the ward I was on was being turned into a Covid ward. I’ll never forget the consultant saying to me, “Come back here in two weeks and you won’t even recognise this place.” By the time I was leaving, staff were beginning to wear masks and finding it really difficult. I remember how scared they all were. The fear was intense.

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 03/03/2022 12:24

Oh and DD had just had her 7th birthday party her first with her new school friends as we had not long moved.

Normando91 · 03/03/2022 12:29

This time two years ago I was visiting my friend, getting ready for a night out. Never imagined two years later that would have been my last night out… or the last time I saw that friend.

Although in that time I have had a baby so perhaps the nights out aren’t so surprising 😆

ExactlyThis · 03/03/2022 12:38

Same as now, in terms of getting nervous about what’s on the news! Hoping it wouldn’t come to anything and everybody was exaggerating.

I was 10lbs lighter though, so that’s something.

emmathedilemma · 03/03/2022 12:38

I went into hospital on the 4th March for a procedure (so lucky I got seen when I did!) so I was working on the 3rd and then once i got discharged on the 5th I had my parents staying for a few days to look after me and when I went back to work I did a week of working from home before we went into lockdown. So I felt like I'd done 3 weeks of lockdown before it even started!

HerRoyalNotness · 03/03/2022 12:41

I was calling HE of the company I was about to start at after years of unemployment to ask if they were sure they wanted me to start. Yes they said, we need you, the person has gone to the new project. Started 16th March, WFH 17th March, laid off 2 weeks later. Grrrr

HerRoyalNotness · 03/03/2022 12:44

It was also school holidays at that time and then they didn’t go back for the rest of the year. One of mine stayed home for another school year and one went back in January.

Thecomfortador · 03/03/2022 12:45

I remember we went to soft play, I think the weekend before the lockdown. We also went for a curry in a very quiet restaurant and commented on how quiet the roads were getting on the way to work. I'd been on leave for a week, had seen GP about mastitis in that week, went back to work to be given a laptop and told to try working from home tomorrow. Lockdown was brought in the following week. We must have done soft play on the Saturday, and I'm glad we did one last normal thing although it was denial as much as anything, why we went.

My sister was still alive. She became very conspiracy theorist and anti vax, and sadly she died suddenly (nothing to do with covid) last year as we were all starting to get vaccinated. It all feels like one long event, rather than lots of stuff that happened over two whole years.

honeyandbutterontoast · 03/03/2022 12:48

I was getting ready to go into hospital for a procedure. Had a temperature, hacking cough and sore throat, but it all went ahead because I hadn’t been to China in the two weeks previously and at that point that was the criteria.
Haven’t caught Covid in the two years since, so I’m guessing I could have had it then.
A couple of days later I pulled both DC out of school, despite everyone around me saying nothing was going to happen…

Honeyroar · 03/03/2022 12:51

I was cabin crew for a major airline, had been for 23 years. I had a run of lovely trips - I was just planning a trip to the Taj with a friend, which would turn out to be the last work trip I’d do. My mother was still well and healthy.

A lot has changed for me! But I’m fine.

Motnight · 03/03/2022 12:51

I was away from my home on business. It all got cancelled. Major northern city, half the shops and restaurants shut, the others still open.

I was also worried about my dd in university, we asked her to come home and she did and never went physically back to university. She graduated July 2020, and the actual ceremony is next week.

My heart goes out to those of you who have lost loved ones during the past 2 years.

Honeyroar · 03/03/2022 12:54

I just looked back, and I was in New York this day two years ago. I walked from the Chrysler building to Brooklyn and back. I remember how empty Chinatown was, people were being silly.. And Bath and Bodyworks put a limit on how many sanitisers you could buy.

And I was getting worried about the complete lack of PPE and sanitisation on the airline I worked for.

Mumoblue · 03/03/2022 12:57

I had just had my son in January, and was getting used to being a parent.

I remember saying to my sister “I don’t know how single mums do it!”

Well, I know now. Wink

Nsky · 03/03/2022 13:01

Working a few weeks away from furlough, started duolingo, and my eye problems hadn’t started ( now not great).
Early retirement now