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Help! I've got Covid and I'm stuck in a hotel

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medusawashere · 22/12/2021 11:26

I travelled to Plymouth for Christmas and did all the right stuff. I'm double jabbed, booster booked for early Jan and have been doing lateral flow tests every day to stay safe and protect others.

This morning, I woke up coughing, sneezing and with chest pains and my LF is positive.

I'm stuck in a hotel with no way of getting home! I live in Bournemouth and my fiance (who was going to meet me Christmas Eve) has also tested positive.

Does anyone have any bright ideas or am I stuck in a hotel room for ten days? I'm devastated. I just want to go home :(

OP posts:
abeanbaked · 23/12/2021 22:49

@Vinomummyinlockdown

Any of you bright sparks had covid? It can be pretty bad and driving isn’t an option in many cases!!! You’ll all get jabs to save your lives from the “killer disease” lol but then you all expect this fiancé to drive and get her. Hypocrites!!!! Truly amazing. Ps had it and we were all fine but you all get jabbed and think it’ll kill you……………🤡🤡🤡
Sounds like vino mummy has had a bit too much this evening..
ForcedOut123 · 23/12/2021 23:28

Just get home

Dibbydoos · 23/12/2021 23:42

OMG so much poor advice on here! You must not use public transport.

Do you have any friends/family who are getting over covid who drive? If so ask them if they can collect you.

If not stay put and isolate. Talk to reception by phone and explain. They can leave your food outside your door.

I know its shitty but it is not safe for you to mingle with others.

Really feel for you esp at this time of year. Hope it's a mild case.

Bless yiu x

CoastalWave · 23/12/2021 23:50

So the papers reported today you had a 70% less chance of being seriously ill with omicron than delta (seriously meaning ending up in hospital)

So 70% of a 0.0093 chance.

Just mask up and get on the bloody train and go home. LFT is probably inaccurate anyway.

Huge numbers of people walking around infecting all sorts of people without even knowing. Those who are at great risk are NOT going to be on a bloody train in the first place!

RachandO · 23/12/2021 23:52

I can't believe that I've read through 21 pages but we don't know what's happened! 😬
I hope OP didn't risk untold people by travelling home on a train!
Some idiot said that there wouldn't be any vulnerable people on a train. That's the most stupid thing I read. Many many vulnerable people DO NOT LOOK VULNERABLE. I look normal, like to glam up but I have an autoimmune disease. Triple jabbed but I don't know if the vaccine has worked. It's because of people behaving selfishly that people like me can't risk mixing with. Thank god I'm staying at home when there's numptys that think it's ok to get on a train with Covid. Oh and someone said to keep a window open....I don't think train windows have opened in years.

MrsMcNtobe · 24/12/2021 00:14

Assuming OP isn’t coming back with an update

juice92 · 24/12/2021 00:19

Do not get the train home if you are positive. Trains have poor ventilation (if any) and you could give it to a whole load of people.

In terms of your DP not being able to get you, when I had covid I was well enough to work from home, but would not have been well enough to drive any real distance.

Booklover3 · 24/12/2021 00:35

I can’t believe he wouldn’t come to get you. What a selfish man. I’d have travelled miles to get my husband… even if I had just started a new job! I’d have made it work some how

Mitzi067 · 24/12/2021 00:43

I loathe such threads whereby OP doesn't update the kind folk spending their valuable time trying to advise the OP in their hour of need! That alone shows how utterly selfish some people can be, unless OP has been hospitalised!

YeaSure · 24/12/2021 00:52

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Juced · 24/12/2021 00:53

Get the train and don’t forget the wine and cheese!

Booklover3 · 24/12/2021 00:59

@YeaSure

Mental people.

No one should be expected to drive 6 hours when ill. Covid isn't a nice thing to have, what if he is finding it hard to breath, bad headaches, lack of concentration.

You expect him to drive? I can bet you he would never ask her to do the same.

Quite clear what type of people frequent these forums.

You mean people who care about their partners? If he is well enough to work then I don’t see why he can’t drive. Even if he has to take a lot of breaks. I genuinely would do that for my husband. He wouldn’t have to ask. I know he would do the same too. Perhaps we are a different type of person to you.

What’s your solution then?

ExpectoPresentsOnCrimbo25 · 24/12/2021 01:16

Agree with @Booklover3

I would travel anywhere for my partner in an emergency, even crawl there if I had to!

I doubt OP is still stuck in the hotel otherwise surely they would of updated us on this thread due to being confined to a hotel room bored stiff and probably glued to their phone trying to get help.

ilovesooty · 24/12/2021 01:36

@Mitzi067

I loathe such threads whereby OP doesn't update the kind folk spending their valuable time trying to advise the OP in their hour of need! That alone shows how utterly selfish some people can be, unless OP has been hospitalised!
She doesn't owe anyone an update. It's not a soap opera.
FireMeetGasoline · 24/12/2021 03:14

Imagine being that selfish that you would expect your covid ridden partner to drive. I would do anything for my dp as he would for me, but I would never expect or even ask him to travel to pick me up when he had covid. What if he was capable at the time of setting off, but then deteriorated? He could potentially be risking his own life, and the life of others on the road. Never heard so much bullshit!

Snoozer11 · 24/12/2021 03:33

Did she not think that this could happen before she left?

FireMeetGasoline · 24/12/2021 03:37

@Snoozer11 totally irrelevant and not helpful at all. She's living her life in a shitty pandemic, and was unfortunate.

There is a thing called norovirus. You'll have heard about it I'm sure. Do you plan your whole existence around it?

PrincessAnnaOfArundale · 24/12/2021 04:00

I can’t believe anyone recommending getting on a train but moving seats ... ffs come on people we know better than that. Stay away from public transport.

RantyAunty · 24/12/2021 04:57

@HazelnutD

Under no circumstances get on a train, mask or no mask. I've just come home via 3 trains after visiting my children over 200 miles away and the trains are packed, on one of them, people were standing and it was so cramped. I can't believe some gn's are saying put on a mask and get home. How selfish and ignorant they are. Can you imagine the num,ber of people, vulnerable, old, and children you might contaminate and even put in hospitalon your journey just to get home. Christmas is one day, you would be risking peoples lives.
At 4am the trains were packed?
lioncitygirl · 24/12/2021 05:01

I’m in a hotel too. It’s shit.

Ddot · 24/12/2021 05:20

OP not come back with update, may actually be too ill to be bothered. Let's hope she stayed put and gets better soon

wombat1a · 24/12/2021 06:47

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rookiemere · 24/12/2021 07:25

In the lack of a return of the OP, some people are really taking this to extremes. Most of us don't plan out every trip with contingency measures should we catch covid. Maybe we should now it's so prevalent glad I got my trips in when numbers were lower.

WeeOrcadian · 24/12/2021 07:50

I'd it just your LFT that was positive or have you actually done a PCR?

TankFlyBoss · 24/12/2021 08:17

@wombat1a are you serious

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