Positive Covid test but we have no food in!

[ViralVera]

I got a text at 10pm tonight to say the DS is positive for CV. He hasn’t really had symptoms but THREE members at his SN college tested positive earlier this week so he was sent home to isolate and I wanted to make sure as DH is a keyworker. I really didn’t think it would be positive.

I’m bloody furious that staff have passed it onto vulnerable students. DS is classed as CEV so has been taught to be very good with hygiene but the staff haven’t been wearing masks, and didn’t seem to adhering to 2m social distancing at his induction session, but that’s another thread.

This means the whole household needs to isolate from now obviously but we are a family of 6 (adults) and get through a LOT of food so I shop every 2/3 days. The next big shop was due to be tomorrow!

The earliest online delivery I can get is for Wednesday and we literally only have milk, eggs, chips, meat and rice/pasta but not enough for 4 days. No squash/bread/cereal/yoghurts/fruit/veg etc.

There is literally no one local we can ask. DH’s brother lives an hour away but his family also has Covid (not from us as we haven’t seen them for months).

It’ll be a lot of shopping for a volunteer to get, if I can find one.

I’ve booked the other 5 of us for a drive in tests tomorrow so I was thinking about me and DH double masking and scooting round Tesco chucking stuff in trolleys as quickly as possible straight afterwards.

Should we? If we have it tomorrow, we had it today too!

Op hasn’t even said she can’t use volunteers
Just that she thinks it’s too much to ask.

There are options, she just doesn’t want to use them.

I hope a thread like this will encourage those who can to keep a little extra in the house in case of emergency. Not hoarding, but a little extra

No

Don’t go scooting round tesco. People like me. Who is also CEV. As is my daughter. Rely on people to not be exposed

We have a local Facebook group who helped me with milk and getting medicine when the first lockdown started. I also went and left a note with a neighbour. Offering her money to help. She’s kind enough that she wouldn’t take the money except to cover shopping. But they were both amazing

I’d do that first.

Why would you come on Mumsnet to ask this? If you want to go, you will.

Obviously don’t go round Tesco OP.

Give all local shops a call, one will deliver.

@Wherehavetheteletubbiesgone

I’m sorry. I wasn’t able to eat for 21 days. I then had to have a feeding tube inserted. But you cannot be seriously saying 6 adults don’t need to eat for 14 days?

There’s something called re feeding syndrome. So you have to be incredibly careful. Please please OP. Don’t heed this advice on an adult can survive 14 days. After about a week. Your body starts to try to keep you safe by storing your electrolytes. You can’t keep warm. Then when you eat again. All that energy in the calories doesn’t know where to go. So it goes to the wrong places. It’s fatal.

Google it. But don’t just stop eating. You’ll feel fucking awful. Trust me. I can’t swallow. Due to a neurological issue and trust me. It ain’t a walk in the park!

Ha ha, how anyone read into my posts that I was waiting for someone to ‘open their purses/wallets’, I don’t know! That made me chortle.

We didn’t need to go to Tesco in the end, as I stayed up last night until I found a delivery slot and found one at 3am for tomorrow morning so we can manage today.

Thanks for all your input.

You really don't have a neighbour you can ask? Your adult kids don't have a friend who can drive, or a friend with a parent/family member who can drive? There must be someone you can ask surely? I don't know my neighbours that well, but if they asked me to go and do a shop for them because they had to self isolate then I happily would, hopefully they would do the same.

This happened to us @ViralVera

Bloody awful, but I got Iceland deliveries and friends helped too.

I was struck at the time thinking, what do you do if you've no one to help?!?

Then I saw an advert on telly that says ring this number and volunteers would help. But maybe that's just in Scotland?

Hope you get sorted. Or even phone tesco, explain the problem, surely they'd help as somehow?

[quote Happyheartlovelife]@Wherehavetheteletubbiesgone

I’m sorry. I wasn’t able to eat for 21 days. I then had to have a feeding tube inserted. But you cannot be seriously saying 6 adults don’t need to eat for 14 days?

There’s something called re feeding syndrome. So you have to be incredibly careful. Please please OP. Don’t heed this advice on an adult can survive 14 days. After about a week. Your body starts to try to keep you safe by storing your electrolytes. You can’t keep warm. Then when you eat again. All that energy in the calories doesn’t know where to go. So it goes to the wrong places. It’s fatal.

Google it. But don’t just stop eating. You’ll feel fucking awful. Trust me. I can’t swallow. Due to a neurological issue and trust me. It ain’t a walk in the park![/quote]
Errrr that’s not even close to what that poster was suggesting. She was saying that as the OP has a big Tesco shop coming on Wednesday and stuff in the freezer, she could probably make do. Stuff like squash isn’t essential.

No one is suggesting the whole family should starve for 2 weeks.

@Madein1995

I dont see what other options are availanle anyhow. Op isnt coughing her guts up and intending to go out sans mask dragging all the family with her! If theres no one available then there is no one available. Ringing local councillors, school mums and grasping at other straws is just too faffy, inconvenient and stressful.

i can't believe you think sticking to the rules put in place for safety are 'faffy inconvenient and stressful' Is this not why op is in this situation in the first place - she's blaming staff at her child's school for not sticking to the rules re masks and distancing - hypocritical much !!

Do not go tesco, you are putting so many people at risk. Book the delivery slot for Wednesday.

Morrisons food boxes are delivered by dpd, you should be able to get one of those.

Or try:

Deliveroo app.

Snappy shopper app.

Get takeaway.

Amazon for things like Pasta and cereal.

You’re “raging” that he got it at college but you think it’s genuinely an option for you to go to the supermarket? So it’s not ok in your book for others to infect you but you don’t care about yourself infecting others? No you can’t go out in the knowledge that you probably have it or are incubating it.

You need to contact the local volunteers and ask for help via Facebook community groups.

Can’t get past the contempt for the members of staff putting their lives at risk so your son can get an education! Unbelievable.

[quote Happyheartlovelife]@Wherehavetheteletubbiesgone

I’m sorry. I wasn’t able to eat for 21 days. I then had to have a feeding tube inserted. But you cannot be seriously saying 6 adults don’t need to eat for 14 days?

There’s something called re feeding syndrome. So you have to be incredibly careful. Please please OP. Don’t heed this advice on an adult can survive 14 days. After about a week. Your body starts to try to keep you safe by storing your electrolytes. You can’t keep warm. Then when you eat again. All that energy in the calories doesn’t know where to go. So it goes to the wrong places. It’s fatal.

Google it. But don’t just stop eating. You’ll feel fucking awful. Trust me. I can’t swallow. Due to a neurological issue and trust me. It ain’t a walk in the park![/quote]
Who has suggested that they don’t eat for 2 weeks?

Well they had a delivery coming on Wednesday so how were they going to starve for 2 weeks?
I'm glad you got a delivery slot for tomorrow and didn't go to Tesco.

how is it possible that you have no neighbours or friends who could help you?

I'm sorry Op. I'm totally 😮 that you are still
Blaming your sons support workers who have been doing a difficult job in difficult circumstance ... I truly have seen it all now on Mumsnet.

Can’t get past the contempt for the members of staff putting their lives at risk so your son can get an education! Unbelievable

This.

@ktp100

I'm sure someone has mentioned this already but if you have Prime you can get a next day Morrison's delivery.

If you're all adults surely one of you has a mate who can pop to a corner shop for bread and milk at least?!

If you have Prime Now you can get same day delivery from Morrisons. We're not in a big city but I came home the other day after the school run and placed a food order which came two hours later.

One of my Dc's happens to work at a supermarket and I would be fucking raging if someone knowingly went in went with possible covid to just scoot around touching things and put them at risk. How hypocritical .

And as someone who works in care I find your attitude to the staff who care for your son shocking too.I highly doubt their intentions were to infect the people they support .I tell you what op working in care at the moment is stressful and worrying but we do it because we care .Awful attitude

Ringing local councillors, school mums and grasping at other straws is just too faffy, inconvenient and stressful.

So is dying.

No wonder there are so many cases and people keep bitching that lockdowns don't work.

You’re pissed off that someone has passed it to your child but are actually considering potentially passing it on to a supermarket full of people?!?! Fucking unbelievable 😂

Well done OP. You did the right thing by staying up and getting a delivery slot. Staying up very late was definitely not a disproportionate or unusual amount of effort to go to in the circumstances. At least the whole household are adults and you could have a lie in!

PurpleDaisies I did get deleted. I did report, I just didn’t realise my post would be deleted. I didn’t see the Mumsnet response on here I thought I had read all the thread but must have missed it. Thanks though, I know in future just report and not comment, I appreciate it