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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:
Original poster
medusawashere · 22/12/2021 12:51

Sorry, I missed something.

I can't drive. My eyes aren't great. I'm not technically legally blind but it would be so irresponsible for me to drive and put others at risk so I choose not to do that. Even with strong glasses, I get eye strain, headaches and blurred vision.

OP posts:
Disneyblueeyes · 22/12/2021 12:51

@medusawashere

Thanks so much for your replies. I'd never ever get on public transport being covid positive. Please know that. I'm the sort of person who usually isolates if there is even the slightest chance I might have come into contact with someone who does.

I was just very unlucky.

My fiance is a sweet, kind and lovely man who would usually go out of his way to do whatever he could for me. I think he's worried about work as he's brand new and doesn't want to upset them.

Our plans were basically to meet up Christmas Eve and go to family in Totnes.

I've been in Plymouth (Hotel near the station) since Monday as my sister was having a baby and (despite knowing I wouldn't be able to see her), I felt very strongly about being close by. Obvs with Covid, there's no way I'd risk her and the baby.

OP he's got his priorities all wrong if that's the reason he won't come and get you. Oh sorry dear fiance, I won't come and get you and leave you in a hotel over Xmas because I don't want to upset my boss. You couldn't make it up.
SoupDragon · 22/12/2021 12:52

Why is everyone slamming the fiancé as selfish and telling OP not to marry him?

If the OP posted that her fiancé expected her to drive to fetch him in these circumstances there would be an equal number of people telling her to leave him for being a selfish prick and that he can't possibly expect her to drive whilst ill with Covid.

SleepingStandingUp · 22/12/2021 12:52

So what does your DFiancr think you should do?

VladmirsPoutine · 22/12/2021 12:52

So what are you going to do?

logsonlogsoff · 22/12/2021 12:53

Op,
There’s not. Person on here who wouldn’t just go and get the train rather than spend a week in a hotel room alone.

SleepingStandingUp · 22/12/2021 12:53

@SoupDragon

Why is everyone slamming the fiancé as selfish and telling OP not to marry him?

If the OP posted that her fiancé expected her to drive to fetch him in these circumstances there would be an equal number of people telling her to leave him for being a selfish prick and that he can't possibly expect her to drive whilst ill with Covid.

But he isn't too ill to drive. Op has said he won't because he is in a new job
Kebabandchipsplease · 22/12/2021 12:53

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ilssagain · 22/12/2021 12:54

Fiance should be picking you up.
That's absolutely ridiculous.
He'd rather you get stuck in a fucking hotel over Christmas for 10 days with nothing to do, rather than just explain to his boss what has happened and say he needs to pick you up and will be away for x hours and when would be possible in the next couple of days.
ie. maybe you have to stay an extra night until he can come but not fucking 10 days.

I would be having second thoughts about marrying someone like that. Shows where his priorities are and also shows you what your life is going to look like if anything unexpected comes up.

logsonlogsoff · 22/12/2021 12:54

As for your DF - he needs to speak to his work, explain the extenuating circumstances and ask for the time to come and get you. They are not going to say no.
And he can tell them he’ll make the hours up.

MsAgnesDiPesto · 22/12/2021 12:55

@medusawashere

Sorry, I missed something.

I can't drive. My eyes aren't great. I'm not technically legally blind but it would be so irresponsible for me to drive and put others at risk so I choose not to do that. Even with strong glasses, I get eye strain, headaches and blurred vision.

Then your fiancé needs to collect you after work, or you stay in the hotel if they are remaining open over Christmas, and will let you. You could also cal 119 for advice - you can’t be the only person this has happened to.

You don’t appear to have other options here. Anything else puts too many people at risk. It’s all crap though. I’m sorry.

logsonlogsoff · 22/12/2021 12:55

Is he always this wet??

BaronessEllarawrosaurus · 22/12/2021 12:55

@cjpark

If your Fiancee is well enough to be working, he's well enough to come and get you imo. He can take snacks, drinks, drive for 3 hours and you can drive back. Otherwise, you need to tell the hotel you have covid, extend your stay and isolate in the room. You cannot get public transport - that would be ridiculously selfish. Could you possible book a hire car and do a one way drop off Plymouth -bournmouth if desperate?
When my dd was positive she was working from her bed, she'd do a bit then have a nap, she wasn't working flat out just doing what she could when she could. No chance could she have driven, she couldn't even stay awake for 3 hours never mind focus on driving.
VladmirsPoutine · 22/12/2021 12:56

@logsonlogsoff

Op, There’s not. Person on here who wouldn’t just go and get the train rather than spend a week in a hotel room alone.
I'm not sure about this. Those who would just jump on a train home would do so without the need to post about it and get castigated and in the process reveal they have a deadbeat fiancé.
Idontgiveaf324 · 22/12/2021 12:56

OP, I reckon you will be fine with getting the train. Just sit next to the window. It probably won't even be that busy now anyway. That's what I would do anyway. Just think how shit it would be if you didn't have Christmas at home - I'd be gutted.

vivainsomnia · 22/12/2021 12:56

So he picks you up after he finishes work. Or wait until Friday if he is still too poorly.

MsAgnesDiPesto · 22/12/2021 12:57

Hey, @Kebabandchipsplease - I read the whole thread as it stood before I typed my post - it crossed with the one where the OP said she won’t get a train, but was after loads of posts advising her to do just that.

Have a Sherry and calm down. This happens a lot on fast moving threads and isn’t worth you getting worked up about on someone else’s behalf.

CantChatNow · 22/12/2021 12:57

I dearly love my husband, but for the first 5 days of covid I wouldn’t have been able to rescue him from a different floor of the house, never mind a drive away.

We don’t know that op can drive, that’s a big assumption.

If I were you op, I would let the hotel know, ask them to help you get food in and just hunker down for the week. It’s crap but unfortunately most people who have covid have crap to deal with and miss out on.

vivainsomnia · 22/12/2021 12:57

OP, I reckon you will be fine with getting the train. Just sit next to the window. It probably won't even be that busy now anyway. That's what I would do anyway. Just think how shit it would be if you didn't have Christmas at home - I'd be gutted
Typical rationalisation to justify the most selfish act that got us in the mess were in now.

TempName01 · 22/12/2021 12:57

Shit situation sorry but you will have to isolate in the hotel. People need to factor in the covid risks into any travel plans. At least the isolation period has been reduced.

alienbaby · 22/12/2021 12:58

Your fiance 🤦‍♀️

ClaudiaWankleman · 22/12/2021 12:58

@Cheshirewife Your hyperbole on this thread is quite amusing.

HalfTermHalfTerm · 22/12/2021 12:58

Did you discuss with your fiancé what would happen if you tested positive while you were there? I know it’s very unfortunate that it has happened, but it was always a possibility. Did you not put a plan into place because you assumed he’d come and get you, or did he say he would and he’s now changed his mind?

It’s absolutely shit, but it is a risk you’re taking if you go away alone with no way of getting yourself home.

MsAgnesDiPesto · 22/12/2021 12:58

@Idontgiveaf324

OP, I reckon you will be fine with getting the train. Just sit next to the window. It probably won't even be that busy now anyway. That's what I would do anyway. Just think how shit it would be if you didn't have Christmas at home - I'd be gutted.
Have you ever been on a train just before Christmas? Heaving with people going home to families. I’ve never been on any train in and out of Plymouth where pretty much every seat wasn’t full, or people standing.
tatfrombandm · 22/12/2021 12:58

This reminds me of when people have sex, with our without contraceptive that's not 100% anyway and then are 'competely and utterly' gobsmacked that they've concieved a child. Like what did you think would happen?