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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:
CheshireKitten123 · 22/12/2021 12:08

I would ring NHS111 and take their advice.

SoupDragon · 22/12/2021 12:08

[quote alienbaby]@SoupDragon
So what's your suggestion then?[/quote]
Not risking people by getting a train or driving whilst in no fit state to do so.

Find someone else who is prepared to do it.

Porcupineintherough · 22/12/2021 12:09

Well, the OP could stay where she is for a few days, if the hotel had room service. Not super fun but not actively dangerous.

PinkWednesdays · 22/12/2021 12:10

@Cheshirewife

Responses suggesting OP, who is covid positive, gets on a train are utterly reprehensible.

Mask or no mask, that would expose other passengers to significant covid risk. Who knows whether those passengers are old or immunocompromised. Best case is you think their Christmas. In the worst case, you could, very literally, kill people.

Anyone who’d even consider this is beneath contempt.

Well said!
heldinadream · 22/12/2021 12:11

@CheshireKitten123

I would ring NHS111 and take their advice.
I would imagine this is the correct course of action. There must be guidelines.
alienbaby · 22/12/2021 12:11

@SoupDragon
We dont actually know he is unfit to drive. OP only says he is unwell and has to work from home and refuses.

Anyway OP has had lots of ideas, I agree with you and would be paying someone to taxi me home.

happychristmasbum · 22/12/2021 12:11

@medusawashere

Fiance is unwell and has to work from home. He is refusing to drive here
Seriously? If he's well enough to WFH he is well enough to come and rescue you.

What a selfish fucker he is! He would be XF.

DreamingofGinoclock · 22/12/2021 12:12

@TheReluctantPhoenix

I think you may be stuck in the hotel.

The hotel cannot evict you. That is nonsense. You do need to tell them, so that they can delver food to the room.

It is ridiculous to tell an unwell person to drive 6 hours. Would you tell a drunk driver that he was selfish to refuse to drive? If you are feverish, you are just as much risk to other drivers.

Your only alternative (if you are well enough) is a rental car. Then you drive home and return it 10 days later, returning home (again) by train.

I am not sure it is really responsible to ask a stranger to drive you, although there definitely would be many if offered the right amount of money. The ethics of that one are up to you...

This is a good option also a national chain like enterprise will probably allow you to pick up (i.e hopefully they drop to hotel and give them the keys that could be delivered to you room) in one location and then return to local branch (obviously when out of isolation) , or they may even pick it up for you ... That would save a return trip further down the line
TheReluctantPhoenix · 22/12/2021 12:13

The fiance probably needs to check his eyes have not been too badly affected by a suitable drive to a local landmark. Barnard Castle is quite popular for this, I believe.

If his eyes are fine, then it seems that the majority here think driving cross country is a sensible move. Looks like Cummings did nothing wrong then...

SoupDragon · 22/12/2021 12:13

[quote alienbaby]@SoupDragon
We dont actually know he is unfit to drive. OP only says he is unwell and has to work from home and refuses.

Anyway OP has had lots of ideas, I agree with you and would be paying someone to taxi me home.[/quote]
And yet lots, including you, have decided he isn't actually unwell and is a bastard who deserves to be dumped.

SergeiL · 22/12/2021 12:13

Why are you in a hotel in Plymouth? Was your DF due to join you there? Where do you live and where does he live?

LemonTT · 22/12/2021 12:15

Offs

Notify the hotel reception. Then Google the LA information about support for people isolating. Both will give proper advice.

ChequerBoard · 22/12/2021 12:15

Presumably you were meeting up with you Fiancé in Plymouth for a reason?

One of you must have friends or family locally? Can you borrow a car and drive yourself home? It's easy to arrange short term fully comprehensive insurance on someone else's car (as long you have their permission) to cover you to drive home.

I know this would be inconvenient and disruptive to the person lending the vehicle but this is an emergency situation.

alienbaby · 22/12/2021 12:16

@SoupDragon
Not only me and other posters. It is insinuated by the OP in her turn of phrase: "he refuses".

If OP found him reasonable you would expect her to have phrased it along the lines of "fiance cant pick me up, he feels terrible and would be capable". Not "refuses".

Lokdok · 22/12/2021 12:16

[quote TheReluctantPhoenix]@Lokdok,

Do you know what unwell actually means?! Have you ever been properly unwell?

Why on earth is it disgusting for a sick person to refuse to drive six hours, with no break (they can't stop off at a cafe!).

What if he gets worse on the drive and cannot continue?

The only disgusting thing on this thread is people thinking it is ethical or sensible for an infectious sick person to embark on a 6 hour drive.[/quote]
Of course. But he's still working, therefore he is not seriously unwell and he is not cognitively affected. That's why it's selfish. Also the 'refusing' to do it is mean-spirited. Hopefully he'll be feeling better tomorrow and will pick her up.

gannett · 22/12/2021 12:16

[quote alienbaby]@SoupDragon
Sometimes in life you just have to grit your teeth and get on with it and this is one of those times IMO[/quote]
It is not. I would rather not have someone who feels too unwell to drive on the roads posing a threat to other motorists, thanks. Especially if they have Covid, with one of the most common mild symptoms being fatigue.

And you have to be particularly dense if you really think that WFH at a desk is equivalent to driving for six hours.

TrufflesAndToast · 22/12/2021 12:17

Do not marry a man who refuses to come and get his ill and stranded fiancée at Christmas time. He is well enough to wfh, he is well enough to come and get you.

Let one good thing come out of this, that you learned you are engaged to a nasty unkind and selfish man, before you married him.

TheReluctantPhoenix · 22/12/2021 12:18

@Lokdok,

In the past (pre covid), I have gone into the office with a high fever and worked shivering and with the screens blurring from time to time. Working from home would be even easier.

If you are stoic, you can work through a lot. It does not make you safe to drive.

SpanielsAreMyLife · 22/12/2021 12:18

On my 1st few days of Covid, I couldn't have driven my car safely off the drive let alone on a long journey. It took until the 6th day for me to feel even remotely normal enough to walk the poor dogs in the dark.

I think you're going to have to ride this one out OP unless you can find a willing relative to rescue you.

Cheshirewife · 22/12/2021 12:19

@TrufflesAndToast

Do not marry a man who refuses to come and get his ill and stranded fiancée at Christmas time. He is well enough to wfh, he is well enough to come and get you.

Let one good thing come out of this, that you learned you are engaged to a nasty unkind and selfish man, before you married him.

Or… maybe do not marry a man who’s silly and selfish enough to drive on public roads when feeling quite poorly.

Barnard Castle anyone?

JudgeRindersMinder · 22/12/2021 12:19

@medusawashere

Fiance is unwell and has to work from home. He is refusing to drive here
Once you’ve managed to sort out this situation I’d be seriously considering my future with him
gannett · 22/12/2021 12:19

If he's well enough to WFH he is well enough to come and rescue you.

This makes absolutely no sense.

I've been fatigued and fevery enough that I couldn't even walk to the shops. But sitting still at a desk doing the easy bits of my job was still perfectly possible. WFH is not exactly manual labour.

gannett · 22/12/2021 12:20

@TrufflesAndToast

Do not marry a man who refuses to come and get his ill and stranded fiancée at Christmas time. He is well enough to wfh, he is well enough to come and get you.

Let one good thing come out of this, that you learned you are engaged to a nasty unkind and selfish man, before you married him.

How are so many people so stupid.
arethereanyleftatall · 22/12/2021 12:20

Op, if your fiancée thinks he would be a danger on the roads, his decision is fine.

However, if he is well enough, just doesn't want to, there's no way on Earth I'd marry him.

The whole point of a relationship is that you go above and beyond for each other, otherwise what's the point?

I hope you get it sorted.

ItsSnowJokes · 22/12/2021 12:20

@medusawashere

Fiance is unwell and has to work from home. He is refusing to drive here
Well isn't he a Prince Hmm

You should really stay put if you have no way of getting home safely. I would be considering my relationship if my fiance wouldn't come and collect me.

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