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Got covid and banished to bedroom

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Quitelikeacatslife · 27/04/2023 08:17

I'm feeling a bit sorry got myself as have tested positive for covid and do feel rubbish. Everyone else in house tested negative. Kids gone to school DH works from home . He's now saying I need to stay in the bedroom. He's brought tea and toast , very nice. I'm happy to get some rest this morning and will probably have a shower etc but I want to veg on sofa later. He works in lounge (has an office but doesn't use it) I don't want to pass bugs on but the thought of not moving freely around for next few days is making me feel worse . AIBU to go into kitchen (I could wear mask) and to ask him to give me lounge?

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Tinybrother · 30/04/2023 03:43

In your shoes OP I wouldn’t mind isolating. I have had toddlers and babies throughout covid, breastfeeding, cosleeping periodically etc, so the vast majority of the time my children are physically on me, and separating myself for even a couple of days in the same house would have been enormously distressing to them. As it was they didn’t ever even test positive when I had it.

Topseyt123 · 30/04/2023 04:14

coffeecupsandwaxmelts · 27/04/2023 14:47

There is no way anyone would be telling me to isolate in my own house.

If I had a partner who was that paranoid, they'd be free to isolate themselves from me if they wanted to, though Grin

Same here. If they tried they would be told to bugger off.

I would stay in the house for a few days, but wouldn't isolate any further than that. I wouldn't be made to stay in the bedroom if I didn't want to. I'd move freely around my house and garden.

Beezknees · 30/04/2023 06:15

No way would I let anyone tell me I had to stay in the bedroom. I'm not a child.

Cooknook · 30/04/2023 06:28

I'd love this hah, a few days off from housework etc. Realistically though I suspect you could have any illness and he'd want you out of his way during the day as is his routine of working from the lounge.

My DH is a paeds consultant and works with children who have cancer so I do try and be very careful when I'm poorly (with anything- sickness bug, reapiratory stuff etc), but if none of you have this kind of consideration to make then does seem excessive.

BashirWithTheGoodBeard · 30/04/2023 07:46

Topseyt123 · 30/04/2023 04:14

Same here. If they tried they would be told to bugger off.

I would stay in the house for a few days, but wouldn't isolate any further than that. I wouldn't be made to stay in the bedroom if I didn't want to. I'd move freely around my house and garden.

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Yes, it's horribly controlling behaviour.

Biker47 · 30/04/2023 08:00

People still doing this? lol. Last time I had it I just got on with life as normal.

Tigofigo · 30/04/2023 08:05

Biker47 · 30/04/2023 08:00

People still doing this? lol. Last time I had it I just got on with life as normal.

Lucky you. I was so ill I couldn't get out of bed for almost a week, even if I'd wanted to. No way did I want to spread it to my kids, I felt horrendous.

Tinybrother · 30/04/2023 08:08

No one wants their children to catch illnesses. But most of us with tiny children didn’t really have much option about whether to spread to them - no way could I have had the luxury of hiding away for days on end, much as it might have been nice to focus on rest and recovery without having to do all the housework and child related work at the same time.

Tigofigo · 30/04/2023 08:12

Tinybrother · 30/04/2023 08:08

No one wants their children to catch illnesses. But most of us with tiny children didn’t really have much option about whether to spread to them - no way could I have had the luxury of hiding away for days on end, much as it might have been nice to focus on rest and recovery without having to do all the housework and child related work at the same time.

Do you not have a partner?

Tinybrother · 30/04/2023 08:15

Tigofigo · 30/04/2023 08:12

Do you not have a partner?

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Yes. He was also ill with covid, doing housework, child related work and doing online lessons all day. Why?

tigger1001 · 30/04/2023 18:49

"All teens are not children. An immature 13 y.o, maybe not. A sensible 19 y.o., absolutely fine.

I isolated in my spare room and it was boring, but completely doable. Facetiming with people in the next room for a few days is hardly becoming a hermit."

It just doesn't sit right with me to confine people to a room on their own.

It wouldn't work for us anyway as we don't have spare rooms, and my two teens share a room. And when my eldest had it, despite wanting cuddles from me, and sharing a room with his brother none of us caught it from him.

Zhx3 · 30/04/2023 19:16

Sympathies, OP. I tested positive on Friday and have been feeling rotten all weekend. I'm staying in my room although going downstairs to make food and drinks.

None of my children want to catch it so they're happy to stay away and dh is sleeping in the spare room. I'd avoid them having to feel like I do at the moment!

Hope you feel better soon.

Ivebeenframed · 30/04/2023 19:50

I've had covid twice now. The first time, kept my distance from my partner and slept at the other end of the bed. Second time didn't realise I had it straight away (slight sore throat) and we were intimate. He never caught it.
My daughter who lives with her partner tested positive. Her partner slept on the floor and wore a mask at all times... he caught it.
I think we must all have different levels of immunity. If you're going to get it you will.

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