Did covid screw anyone else's life up?

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Interested to hear on this as I have been reading a thread where people loved the solidarity of it all. For me it was redundancy, house lost, business lost and savings...

@girlmeetsboy I've bought a lottery ticket! At least tonight there is more hope. I'll spend it as I'm lying awake tonight and a big chunk will be yours! We can run away together!

It's screwed my life up. I now have scarred lungs, breathlessness and constant fatigue. Isolation but good health looks pretty good to me just now.

I loved it all. I had stage 3 cancer, surgery and chemotherapy from July 2020 to April 2021. The ideal time to get cancer if there is one. I didn’t miss out on anything by being bedridden.

@Nindaelita if it makes you feel any better, one of my first symptoms of having Covid was one of my eyes going bloodshot, and I've been having repeated bouts of uveitis since, although . I'm waiting for the results of various blood tests, as one theory is that the Covid has triggered some kind of autoimmune condition that is causing the flare-ups, so it's possible that your daughter might have had the same reaction if she'd caught covid. Try not to feel guilty about it.

I'd forgotten the bloodshot eyes, it was both of mine. I hadn't thought about that but I'm having special eye drops prescribed as my eyes are so sore and dry. I hadn't connected it with covid.

Lost my FIL and 9 days later my MIL 😢

Naff as it sounds, I've made a conscious effort to do something nice - smile at people and say hello, that sort of thing - but it feels like an uphill battle sometimes!

Yes. I'm trying. Letting people go in front, smiling more, being generally more gracious and less of a grumpy arsehole. At least now we've no masks we don't have to do that horrible 'smiling with the eyebrows' thing.

I'm really sorry to hear how difficult this was for so many people. I didn't lose anyone close and the SEISS saved our business. It was the best thing ever for my 17 year old son. He came off drugs, started eating properly, got into running and working out at home and left behind a worrying crowd of friends. We were seriously worried as he was clinically under weight, bordering on cannabis pyschosis and knocking around with some unsavoury types. He's maintained all the changes and gone to uni now. We feel very lucky and my heart goes out to everyone who is struggling, especially those with anxieties about DC.

Reading this thread has made me think about the lockdowns and wondering if they did do more harm than good but then I thought about what we saw happening in Italy. What would it have been like without the lockdowns, it seemed pretty horrific in Italy. I'm really not sure what the right answer was.

There was that terrible story about the army going into a home and finding the staff had abandoned the residents and some were dead. I think that was Spain rather than Italy.

I don't think it was easy and I'm not one for having sympathy for Johnson and his government.

Covid has been horrendous. Massive impact on mental health, lost my middle son to suicide aged 18 and think covid was a huge factor in not being able to socialise and the paranoia of the outside world.
the statistics won’t include this but it’s real.

I'm back in a mask. I had hospital treatment this week, for long covid symptoms, and they said my immune system will be compromised for a few weeks so I need to avoid crowds and wear a mask.

It was funny going out today, I was getting some funny looks and presumably people think I'm some sort of covid nut. I'm doing my best not to take risks, I really don't want to catch it again and presumably if I get it now it could be worse than last time.

I've bought one too, will also share 😍, oooooo where shall we go?? I fancy Vancouver!

I am heartbroken for you, I can't imagine ever going through this. Lots of love to you xxx

Totally agree with you and finding the apathy really hard to shift.

A bit indirectly. My group of friends had a few couples that tied us all together. Lockdown broke them up and now we never get together anymore. One said it's too painful to see me alone even (my boyfriend is her exs lifelong best friend).

So I've been kind of left without my friends tbh. I've made new ones but it's not the same.

lost my dad just before we went into lockdown, then my stepdad who I couldn’t see for months due to him being in a home, mad panic attacks going to work as I’m a nurse and not knowing what would happen on the wards you where shipped too! Long Covid after getting it from a patient as the government downgraded PPE for hospitals, was meant to move but this delayed everything and still has been delayed due to everything that has happened with mortgages in last few weeks! Weight gain, too much drinking! One positive though was finding out I have a big sister and 3 nephews and a niece!

Did covid screw anyone else's life up?
It's still messing lives up daily as the cost of everything gets worse. Omniscient Johnson said at his final PMQs in July this year that Britain's "output" was then at its lowest since 1722. (Or was his "300 years" also a guess?) Sunak had blown £400-billion on the lockdown that Johnson simply decided was the way forward in 2020. It was finally revealed in July this year by Jeremy Hunt that top advice (from SAGE) to copy S. Korea had been fobbed off at No.10: see the short video, esp. the second 50 secs: www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 Also see www.bit.ly/conwho

I loved lockdown - I loved having my husband and my 6 kids home and we had quality time together . BUT I have since struggled to get ‘back to normal’ and have lost friends because I not struggle to go out

Big Hugs to OP and everyone affected. The huge issue for me is how unfair it has been with the time and specific opportunities have been lost (ie children's milestones like leaving Y6 my DD2, exams that were worked so hard for missed my DD1). However all that I cannot complain as haven't lost loved ones over Covid. Best of luck to us all! Xxx

Covid also killed my dear dad.

That aside I liked working from home and still much prefer it. It has changed my mind set and I am much less sociable person, live a much quieter life and I go out of my way to avoid busy places busy social situations. I worry about getting covid and becoming really ill. So I guess I now have health anxiety.

We where all healthy etc in my family when lockdown happened and being inside wasn’t really a problem for us. But when my granddaughter was forced back into school in September 2020 😢 we all caught covid. The bad one, it hit our family hard and my daughter who’s 30 had fits and extreme hair loss etc. we all have mass cell damage and high histamine attacking our bodies since. Doctors have no answers and our now dismissing long covid and now gaslighting us.
pits caused my daughter to have a breakdown as she’s the most effected one.
I have a autoimmune condition before covid struck and now it’s made my condition worse and we’ve just been left to it. No help or answers. We are on local survivors group for long covid and the support on there is brilliant and we share things to try and give some relief to these horrible symptoms.
we all have a endless fight but glad I’m not alone with this.

I don't know if it's definitely covid but my past trauma has come back to haunt me with a vengeance. I'm absolutely terrified of walking to work now. My health has deteriorated so I'm signed off long term sick

@Nindaelita I have had this several times, and after the 3rd bout at a random GP appointment about something I thought was unrelated she asked me if I'd been tested for Crohns, please get your DD tested, not all crohns plays out in the same way.

My husband started kidney dialysis, three days a week in June this year. Covid and lockdowns took away our final opportunity to travel outside the UK to visit friends and relations. Dialysis apart, we couldn't afford overseas travel now anyway.

Yes, I’m autistic and I’m still trying to recover from the shock of all the changes. I don’t trust shops or people now. I don’t make eye contact with strangers.

my actual life stayed unaffected ted as I was self employed in an outdoor job I could carry on with no change, but it was like if w wry one around me just went mad overnight