Self isolation support thread

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Apologies if a thread on this has already been started. Had a look but cant see anything glaringly obvious.

Thought I would start a self isolation support thread to stop those in isolation from going stir crazy.

I am on day 1 of self isolation. I have had mild manageable symptoms of various things slowly creeping up on me all week. But last night my temp reached high numbers and I'm now coughing have consulted work and I must stay away for 7 days. Kids wont be at school either as they have told me to keep them home. They both have mild coughs and I was struggling to get my head around the logistics of getting them to school.

I have found the whole week very strange. Not knowing when I need to panic. I suffer with chest infections when I get run down anyway so the symptoms are all similar. Have also had full blown flu a few times and again the symptoms are similar. Everything feels too vague, no one knows anything for sure and I feel like it's such a weird time to be living in.

Please post here if you are self isolating to keep me company. I'm really gonna miss work as I work with the the most fantastic people! No doubt the kids are gonna drive me crackers too as whilst they are pleased they get a week off school they have realised they will be missing all their extra clubs etc.

I'm a complete Dickwipe aren't I?

I thought I'd busy myself making body butter for my friend...

I'm plagueful! She won't be able to use it!

Ah well...looks like I'll be using basil and lemon body butter as part of my self care plan! 😂

Things just got fucking stranger! This thread has been busy, will catch up during my me time later - hot bath and face mask pencilled in to give be a breather from the kids. I haven't broken the news to them yet as have palmed them off on Daddy in the garden whilst I start tea!

I hear you..mine are driving me batshit!

So I've got some homemade hair conditioner, sugar scrub and body butter lined up, clean sheets and a bunch of crappy lifetime movies on a YouTube playlist!

And we managed to tidy the house between us! I'm proud of me today!

Wow this thread has got busy and slightly more crazy?!?! Is that cos we all have the plague now

I'm just lazing in the bath listening to the kids complaining to gran and grandad on facetime that Mummy has planned in 3 and a half hours of 'school' from tomorrow. They have failed to notice the free time in the garden/on the ipad I have pencilled in plus the movie a day just to help with the boredom. That's right kids let's focus on the positives .......

I have non of the healing bath items in @shrimpythegnome so will get on ebay/amazon tomorrow as it sounds lush!

Good to hear from you @wildchherries!

I hope everyone is recovering by the minute, slowly but surely. Thank you all for keeping me company during this surreal time. It's much appreciated!

Sorry for the typo @whildcherries

Where the hell are my paragraphs going by the way? Does anyone know please, it's almost as annoying as the bloody headache I keep waking up with!

Just the panic buyers are wiping their butts with your paragraphs as they've run out of loo roll! 😂

Damn panic buyers! Stop wiping your damn arses and give me my paragraphs back!

Well I've argued with a friend my doctor had steroids and antibiotics delivered to me today in case my chest gets really bad and my friend cannot get them so she has tried everything to get them of me even down to trying to say that I don't need them yet I can get more and she may die in the night. I told her if she's that bad phone 111 and ask for help now she's not speaking to me.

😂😂😂😂😂

Theodore I'm so sorry about the laughing emojis! I hadn't refreshed the thread!

Fuck that shit! You are NO less deserving than her!

Stay strong!

I'm so damn angry for you rn! Are you ok?

We'll help you compose some sassy replies in case she starts.

@shrimpythegrove wouldn't upset me even if you were laughing I would just be happy I brought some well needed relief to someone in a stressful situation. Tbh I cannot actually believe she wants my prescription.

Sorry got your name wrong

Exactly! Please don't give in to her! A true friend would be happy you've been able to access medical help!

Does she have form for this sort of shit?

Have I found my tribe?
I've been hanging out on the "worried about" threads but I seriously need to step back.
I'm on week four of lockdown already I had a heads up from my respiratory consultant who told me to isolate as much as possible, I have type 2 respiratory failure, I was getting over a chest infection but now have pneumonia which would normally see me in hospital on IV antibiotics but they have no beds and I wouldn't want to be there anyway. I'm on three different antibiotics and spending lots of time on a non invasive ventilator to support my pathetic breathing.
My adult kids are doing their best to support their own families or just trying to survive, I'm so worried about them in fact I'm worried about everyone.

Meh- call me anything you like! 😂 Usually people invent nicknames which evolve around my height...so it's a novelty being called something else! 😂

Charlie we got you. Puke buckets are to the left, and there's a special cage for the kids (who are driving us all batshit) in the corner. 😂

I know its here- but try to worry about you first. You'll be no good to anyone if you don't get yourself well. I know how impossible that seems: hell, I found this thread when I was mindlessly browsing MN looking for a conversation that didn't involve loo roll, after a night of worrying myself stupid that I was going to die and leave my kids to fend for themselves!

We got you.

*hard. Not here.

I'm not giving them to her I have severe copd I may need those to keep me alive. she has spoken to her doctor and was told she is speaking to well and doesn't seem breathless enough.

She does have form for lying about illnesses for example I have bipolar and schizophrenia and stopped confiding in her after I overheard her telling someone she has bipolar and telling one of my stories word for word saying it was her since then I haven't confided in her at all. She also claims her son has adhd as soon as my DS got his diagnosis.

But we been friends since childhood and I kinda figured she may not have bipolar but there must be something wrong to lie to people about having bipolar and the fact that no matter what illness you have she always tries to say she has had worse.

So I figured I would be supportive and hope some day she gets help for whatever it is that makes her want to pretend to have illnesses as it must be hurting her to always want to be unwel and I want to be a good friend.

But I'm not giving her my medication I draw the line there.

Hi Charlie. For a while the worried about thread was holding back a tide of abuse and I got so very anxious that I still don't know if my Covid symptoms were a series of panic attacks combined with PMT! Someone PMd me and told me to lay off MN for a while. Best advice I ever had.

You are welcome here ... everyone is lovely and the nasty people are elsewhere.

Also Charlie my DH has a mechanical heart valve and was told in January that is heart has enlarged. I empathise with your concerns.

I've also decided that, as soon as I'm out of isolation, I'm going to try to set up a facebook group on which people can ask for help with supplies. Those relying on online delivery are a) limited to supermarkets, and have no option to pop to b&m/wilkos/poundland and b) would have a nightmare getting a delivery slot anyway. I was lucky my social worker was passing today: she even picked up tobacco! I know what it's like to have no one around to help.

Any thoughts on actually making it work? How would money be exchanged? And addresses?

I need to think about this.

Sorry- just musing.