Self isolation

[Jackleila14]

Hi so please don’t jump on me but this is the situation I am in at the moment and I’m just wondering what others would honestly do if they were me . My dd has been self isolating since yesterday she has a new cough , temp and has been sick a couple of times, the advice yesterday was to self isolate the sick person for 7 days however the the government are now saying every one in the household has to self isolate for 14 days. This could potentially be passed to my son , husband and I could get it too, I could be off off work for a month waiting for this virus to go through our house then who’s to say she won’t catch something else or get the actual corona virus as we can’t be sure that’s what she has now. There is no way my work will pay me moths of sick pay, at the moment my husband has gone to work because he’s working alone for two days but after that he doesn’t know what to do and I work with the general public and my next shift is tonight. We do not have any spare or saved money to pay our bills and mortgage if we don’t go to work we will loose our home but at the same time the thought of putting vulnerable people at risk makes me feel awful especially as my niece has serious health conditions and I know how much she is struggling with this . I don’t usually panic but I am in tears over this and have no idea what to do .

We are in the same position. I have rang my boss to see if we would be entitled to sick pay or if there is anything we can do.
1st thing I'm doing today is ringing the bank to have a few months holiday from paying the mortgage. Fingers crossed we will only need a couple.
Cut back on everything that we don't need to pay for. Such a worrying time. If they just tested people then we could just get on with our lives once it came back positive or negative.

What did your work say? I know mine told me last night that unless it is me thats sick I won’t be getting paid but now they know I don’t think people will be very happy with me going in .

She was ringing the accountant and meant to be ringing me back, that was at 9am, still waiting 🤨 Just hope i get something even something small. I only work 3 days a week but with husband being off aswel we are going to struggle.

Good luck to you, this has actually affected my family much more than I thought it would if I’m honest my daughter is really struggling and we are currently waiting on a call back from 111 she has asthma which is usually mild and well controlled but at the moment she is constantly coughing , struggling and being sick . It’s an absolute nightmare to get through to any one and I’m quite worried now . I’ve self isolated as of today and my work did not take the news well and tried to put pressure on me to come in , considering I work for one of the leading supermarket chains I can’t even imagine the obstacles that people who work for smaller companies are going to face .

Oh no your poor daughter. Did you manage to get through to 111? How is she now? Up to now my daughters cough has settled down.
Work will just have to accept that a lot of people will be off sooner or later. In my work 6 people are off, 2 of them pregnant so will be staying off till june.

How are you doing ? How is self isolating treating you? Think I’m going to start some sort of home routine with my little ones on Monday and actually get out of our pjs haha we are all getting a little bored .

Hi how was your daughter after the other night?
We are also bored stiff. Daughters cough has gone (which I new would after a couple of days) but still have a week and a half left of isolation. 3 kids to entertain 😴
We have a big garden so has been a little easier. We have been trying to stick to a routine but sometimes 1 of the children don't want to comply. Just taking it a day at a time.