What's the longest you have stayed inside for ?

[Sitonyourdressmavis]

I've just come out of a very stressful work situation and now have 2 weeks annual leave. I've spent a week of it already and I haven't been out of the house! I feel like I'm in hibernation mode. I live alone and am perfectly happy ,but wondering when I'm going to get cabin fever...
What's the longest you've stayed in for?

I think that the longest that I've ever stayed indoors is probably somewhere between a week and almost a fortnight. That's usually due to the occasional illness (e.g. flu), but sometimes if I have a few days off work, I like to hibernate, too!

It's just so peaceful, and I can potter around doing little jobs at my leisure. I bake, read, have a piano, watch things online, and I can call people by phone if I wish to socialise. Privately, though, it's nice just to take a few days off from the world and rest!

Absolutely nothing wrong in spending time in the one thing we go to work for and pay the most for OP.

Love stopping in me.

A day, but very rarely. DCs and DDog won't allow it!

Im thinking maybe 4 day's max. I get cabin fever very quickly. I have had some health issues but thankfully not housebound ones. I've been fit to take a 2 minute walk around the close. I think when I had my second I was in hospital 4 days.

Sixteen weeks. I loved it. Could easily do it again.

It’s not a case of ‘keeping tally’ but if your normal life includes working outside the home or heading out for a walk each day, then it’s noticeable when you’ve had an illness which kept you in, and for many people that was probably Covid at the time when you weren’t supposed to go out until a negative test. Or even more so, those people with underlying health concerns who were ‘shielding’.

No. You know what? It feels really healthy. I'm pottering etc not just lying there

Sometimes when dh goes away (work, visiting his relatives etc) I revel in not having to go out and do anything. I just potter, potter, potter about putting things to rights, clearing out drawers, freezer, anything I can chuck out or clean is chucked out or cleaned. It's like a holiday. I love it.

(I don't enjoy housework as such, but chucking stuff out and having a clear
out is bliss) Glass of wine and a book at the end of the day and I'm happy.)

Don’t you feel like you need some exercise? Or do you have a treadmill or something?

@WilfredsPies two years?!

Around 3 days during my last bout of COVID. I was climbing the walls and driving everyone around me potty too. If I don't get out running I get really twitchy and irritable.

So sorry to hear about all the Ill health that everyone has suffered. With regards to exercise, on normal work days it's not unusual for me to get between 15 -18k steps a day so I'm OK with having a rest

I was my DM's carer for 10 years and when she went into hospital I had something of a breakdown. We were in the middle of a heatwave so I spent time in the garden but I didn't go out of the front door at all. I slept for hours through the day and slept all night. The removal of the stress was almost as hard to live with as the stress itself!

I can really relate to this. I've been close to burnout and now nothing!

if I go 24h I find it really noticeable.
48h would require a concerted effort and I don’t
think I have ever randomly done it (eg Covid etc quarantining myself
excepting)

The most is 1 day. Cannot fathom more than that.

Yes, two years.

When I had the flu, around 4 or 5 days but then I had a friend take me in his car for a drive so I could at least get out.

On a non-illness non-post-surgery week, 48 hours is the most I could ever manage before going crazy. I hate feeling sluggish too.

I genuinely feel so sorry for al the people who were really on house-arrest during the lockdown in countries that were so ridiculously strict, or people in China having to stay indoors at the worst of pollution. Pure hell.

I used to make sure I took my kids out every single day, even if it was just a trip to sainsburys.

Back in 2021 when I first became disabled, barring endless trips to the gp, literally carried door to door, I didn't leave the house until mid 2022. THAT was awful as I had no choice but to stay home

I'm still disabled (physically, lifelong and progressive) but somewhat know my boundaries now.

At Christmas I went 23 days, it was glorious because it was MY choice to be cosy and comfy at home.

I don’t think I’ve ever spent even a full day in the house. If I have, I certainly can’t remember it. That’s even with having had sepsis, a couple of c sections, broken limbs etc. I cannot bear to feel cooped up indoors and anyway, I’ve horses and dogs and the farm livestock, so I haven’t much choice even if I wanted it!

How did you get outside with sepsis and broken limbs?

I recently had a hysterectomy and for the first two weeks I stayed at home I live alone so could get what I needed from a Tesco whoosh delivery if urgent. I had grand plans of spending the six weeks learning a new language, or skill, geetting into new hobbies etc, but I just did nothing basically aside from scroll on my phone and binge watch Netflix. I started walking the dog again for 20 mins around the block twice a day and my ex took him for a long walk each day. I did nothing…. It was such a shock coming back to work. Thinking of having another surgery just for some more time off 😂

Probably about 4-5 days, could easily do longer though

3 days at most unless very ill. On an average week I woukdnt have a day at home..even if sick would still have to do school run, go to shops etc a week at home all alone sounds a bit worrying like you are very isolated, probably not the healthiest not even getting out for a bit of fresh air...

I would imagine that pp is more resilient than most

I am similar, my friends do think it's funny and charming how resilient I am.

One day my head fell clean off and I just picked it up, tucked it in my arm, swilled out the pigs and cooked a massive salad on my big rustic range cooker.

I was genuinely interested as a family member had sepsis and was incredibly ill and in no way could move really. And when my brother broke his ankle, he was a good 3 or 4 days home from hospital before he could really navigate round home let alone the garden