WWYD

[myboysmum]

I live with my partner and it's just us at home. I am in the high risk group for this virus and have to isolate for 12 weeks with no visitors as I have a blood cancer.

My son is currently at university 1 1/2 hour drive away. His 3 house mates have all gone home to their families as the university has closed and they will study at home so he is now there alone. He is actually doing an internship this year at a Lab which is located on the university campus but is now working from home.

He suffers with anxiety and is currently waiting for an appointment with a councillor that the doctor has arranged.
I want him to come home as I'm worried about his mental health and being completely on his own there and this could go on for weeks. He can also work from here but now have the problem that we are on lockdown.
I thought that if he stays completely at home for the next 7 days with no symptoms we would know he is not infected and then he could come here. We've then got the problem of getting him here as he can't get the train. I'm thinking my partner could drive to get him but would we be allowed to do that because of the lockdown ?
Any suggestions/ advice ??

I think he needs to be isolated for 2 weeks rather than 7 days. In your situation I would think just going to collect your son on a 3hr round trip wouldn't be increasing chances of infection if your partner waits14 days and doesn't interact with anyone or anything along the way.

I wouldn't want my uni age son going through this all on his own.

However I'm not sure where this fits with government guidelines.

I think that you would be able to collect him as it would be helping or caring for a vulnerable person. You wouldn’t be doing it if he wasn’t vulnerable.

I think that it might be only seven days he needs to wait because households had to self -isolate for 14 days is someone was displaying the symptoms because you had to allow for seven days for the symptom bearer and then another seven after that in case someone else got it from the first person.

They just said on the news that that would be acceptable

Did they, that's great thank you. I had to go out today as had pre chemo assessment ahead of my chemo on Thursday and I felt so guilty that I was out and about even though I had good reason to be. Mind you the roads were not as empty as I expected and most of the cars had elderly people in them I can't see that all of them were out for medical appointments etc. I even saw one elderly couple driving around in an open topped old sports car !!!
Thank for your replies, so we'll wait to make sure he's showing no signs of the virus then we will go and pick him up. Good point that I am going out to collect a vulnerable person. Stay safe everybody