To feel today has been the worst day yet.

[Puddleduck42]

I'm already (like many) feeling abit fed up and sick of this virus and the nightmare it's causing.

Schools are staying open. Yet our child's teacher has been isolated but isn't being tested. The school are just going to clean more often. I just think when as parents do we get to step in and protect our kids? I don't want to send her tomorrow. Yet at the same time I'm sad. She is in reception. It should be a wonderful time of the year. The back of winter is here. Spring is starting. They are making Easter displays. They have baby chicks in class. They are outside more. She's really happy right now. But anytime now she will be probably home for a long time. I just feel sad. Her teacher is only covering maternity and leaves in June. I just feel so sad her first year of school could be over soon.

To top it off her swim class contacted us today to say swimming is off for the foreseeable future. All the school clubs are off now. All trips cancelled. Her first school disco is also cancelled. So why the hell are they at school when they can't do any of the nice things anymore? How is it any different? They are still mixing!

We are due to go on holiday in 2.5 weeks and I simply don't want to go anymore. It's only Norfolk. But what's the fun in going to the coast if you can't buy a bag of chips or go food shopping for the week when you get there. If you can't go in arcades and for days out. We were visiting a museum, farm etc too. Just feels we will be paying for a very quiet boring week now.

Then today I got an email from asda. All 3 cereals we eat were out of stock. I went online and all they had was one box of cornflakes. Who knows if they will turn up. My son's nappies and wipes were gone. Then 15 other things are out of stock including vegetables and orange juice. No biscuits. No chicken burgers. No pasta or pasta sauce. No squash left. No ham or chicken left. I mean who the hell has been allowed to buy so much cereal. How selfish are people being! I have seen alot of think of the elderly. I absolutely 110% agree with this. But also think of children. Children who can't have breakfast. One mum at the school has been everywhere to get her child Calpol today. Not one single shop has any. Which means kids burning up can't get their temp down.

I actually dispair. What is next week going to be like? No food. No socialising. Half arsed answers from schools. They think abit of disinfectant changes the fact a teacher has possibly already got it. Other schools are giving people a choice. Yet not ours.

I feel abit stressed tonight. I'm not sure why. Probably because I don't think ill be able to do a shop online anymore. I'll just have to hope the local coop doesn't sell out. It's awful having children and not being able to provide for them. My DD especially is fussy and won't just eat any old thing out of a tin. .
Anyone else having a bad day with it all today? Everything feels morbid and I feel annoyed that bojo wants us lot to catch this virus to protect others. I really don't fecking want it.

I really think that unless we have a proper lockdown that the schools should stay open. I just don't trust people to socially distance if they do. I see people buggering off on UK holidays/going to soft play/parks etc etc and spreading it further

Totally agree.

Yes today has been bad for me. I went to the shops this morning and they were empty, I saw a guy put all of the remaining bottles of blue milk in his trolley and I thought ‘what am I going to put on my toddlers cereal tomorrow’. As previously said, I know I can provide for my children on a normal basis but what if there is no food or milk in the shops?

@Frequency

despite not being able to get through a day without using my reliever at least three or four times... ....I have a very overdue asthma review booked for Thursday and plan to 'fess up

Your asthma probably isn't that bad - just incredibly badly managed!

If you are using your blue inhaler more than a few times a WEEK, you should be on a preventer. Or a better preventer if you already take one. Don't let them fob you off without a prescription for some form of preventer at your review, as there is no reason for asthma to be this badly managed.

My school is closed as of today but I had already decided not to send my children to school until this is over.

I had planned to take unpaid leave or parental leave but fortunately now won't have to.

It's very worrying and I just don't see why, when we are being told to stay at home and away from other people, we should be sending our children to school with hundreds of others to be coughed and sneezed on. Nope 👎🏽

We are all in isolation, ds & I have both got chest infections, we are living with my mum who is 81 at the moment because I suffer from several chronic health conditions & can't manage on my own. The only thing I think is thank god for the internet, we have managed to get shopping done online, ordered books & things to keep us occupied from Amazon, I can pay all the bills for my own home & anything else we need here online. Ds is supposed to be doing his GCSE's this summer, we don't know what will happen, if he will actually do the exams or if they will take grades from work. I am waiting to see a neurologist about the peripheral neuropathy that has disabled me so much, I have ended up having to go private, it would be a year if I waited for the NHS which is time I don't have, instead I am going at the end of the month. I'm trying to not look too far forward, taking it a day at a time.

And me. It was the library closing that broke me.

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I'm so worried about my old dad ( 98) who is in a care home and tonight I had a rant about everything ( cancelled holiday , the supermarkets bring empty, the stress plus I work as a minion in a school plus my sons will now be living at home forever probably plus dad even though his being cared for it's still a worry!)
I live with three men and they said I was ' over reacting' ! I just feel so helpless and low, what is the point of all this ? Not a good way to think!
Ds2 works from home now so I have ' be quiet , I'm on a conference' all the time!

I haven't got little ones to entertain when we are off ( I'm sure we will be soon) but I can feel the pain of mumsnetters that have that added stress! Little children get bored so easily.
Take care everyone ; will be a bumpy ride I'm afraid. One good point ; no football this summer! My brothers are not impressed!

I cried at work today. I’m a lecturer, and classes are now all to be delivered electronically, but there is no real guidance on how, which feels impossible. I know it will fall into place, but I feel so stressed. I am also worried about being out of the structure of going to work, seeing colleagues and students, then a clear boundary with leaving and coming home, even if I do usually do a bit of work in the evenings. And I am afraid of letting my students down.

I had a total meltdown when I got home, proper ugly crying - my DP asked if someone had died! But in a way I feel like I am grieving for normal life, as well as scared of how the future might be.

I think I am going to order some craft things tomorrow. Hopefully we can all rediscover ourselves through this crappy time. I think the hardest part is the wait. It feels like we are in this crappy middle bit. We can see the schools are plodding along also worried. My daughters teacher seemed really fed up yesterday morning. I wanted to hug her and say thank you for making me little girl enjoy school. It feels so odd. We walked home after school and 4 of us mum's ended up chatting at the park we walk through. all of our kids ended up playing for ten minutes together and it was nice and sunny. I actually thought such a lovely sight to see them all having fun in the warm weather. Then i thought probably the last time in a long time

My worst day today. I’ve decided to close my business, which I only started in Jan. I remember the high of opening and feeling so happy that I had finally done it and was making a success of it, but then this happens and numbers fall and I’m making a loss week on week.
I know I might be able to re-open when things start to improve but it’s the not knowing when that will be that’s upsetting me. If I knew it was 4 weeks or 8 weeks I could get through it but it’s the possibility that it could be 6 months or a year.
So terribly depressing.

My youngest dd is in reception too and absolutely loves it, she gets up every day excited to go and adores her teacher, I know it's for their good when they eventually closed but I'm gutted that such a lovely thing will be taken from her.
Days out don't bother me so much, we can do those in the future but she'll never get to complete her first year at school.

It's insignificant but the small things feel so massive right now.

My Mum & I usually have a few trips to garden centres in the spring getting all the little bedding plants, we've always loved gardening together but she's 75 with medical issues and I have to force myself not to panic that we may never do it again.

Gronky our library does offer electronic loans but that wasn’t why I was upset. It’s the not being able to just walk down to the library with the dds and pick up some books, something I just took for granted, a normal weekend activity, gone. Along with so many others

our library does offer electronic loans but that wasn’t why I was upset. It’s the not being able to just walk down to the library with the dds and pick up some books, something I just took for granted, a normal weekend activity, gone

Might I suggest going for a walk in the country (away from others) and picking out books electronically together? I understand it's a shock but replacing one activity with a modified form helps me cope better than lamenting its loss and doing nothing.

Today I feel it more than I ever done. This sense of fear and dread. I don’t know what will happen next. My parents are in their 70s so we’ve decided not to see them and I see them with the kids a few times a week. I can’t imagine not being able to just go out. Two of my kids have special needs and one has coeliac disease and it’s becoming really hard to get the few gf foods he’ll eat. I’m sad thinking that someone will happen to my parents. The world is on the brink of change and it’s scary not knowing what will happen.

Yes I'm feeling low tonight. I'm pregnant and my scan not till next week and worried about baby as can't feel kicks yet. My son's birthday is this week and I can't work out how to ensure he still has a smile on his face when party won't go ahead as planned as it's been all he's looking forward to. My sister is in South America and I don't know if she will be able to get home safely. All quite small problems but I'm getting upset at stories of strangers eg people losing jobs, autistic children not getting their special food. I was outdoors on Monday in the sun and today was inside working so even though work manic i think I need to go for a walk for my sanity tomorrow.

@plugholepencil

Aww I'm so sorry. That's truly rubbish and you could never of imagined this a few months ago. China has started to get cases under control now. We can only hope in 2 months time we can say the same.

How long are schools going to close for do you think? Will it be months?

It's really sad to think of loosing out on family time. Especially with older parents etc. It's just sad to think we can't do anything now that we could do a month ago. We get a macdonalds treat once every couple of weeks. I also said no to that today. Don't want to risk it at all. I feel we have all taken things for granted. We have had a fairly good life up until now. We've got a huge variety of food and places to eat.weve always been able to go out and about. We have clean safe schools etc.

It's going to mess a lot of children up being taken away from their friends and routine. It's not ideal at all is it. Why did this virus have to come along?

Toast?

Awful day. I just broke down crying in front of my children and we were all stressed and then were all crying. We’ve had a shit few months and I just got remission from cancer before all this.

Feeling like a terrible mum but I’m terrified. I love them beyond all measure and made them cry.

The length of time is what's getting me down. This could go on for months and months. That's what's terrifying me.

ooooh

Be kind to yourself please. This tricky time will pass.

Yep. My worst day today so far too.
Booked and then cancelled dd’s birthday party at the weekend
Really sad that she probably won’t get to do all the fun end of year 6 things
Son is gutted that his sports and beavers clubs are cancelled
Probably won’t see my parents for months
Had 2 holidays booked which I doubt will happen
And obviously, above all that extremely scared that I or a member of my family will be one of the unlucky ones.

And yet things still seem normal in so many ways. It’s utterly bizarre

@Frequency - asthma is on the list and my son starts self isolating tommorrow. It is clearly on the list on gov.uk take a look.

Slightly relieved to see I'm not the only one feeling low.

Yesterday I felt scared, today just so sad.

Op you have perfectly summed up what I feel about my reception aged children.

Thanks OP.
The problem is China appeared to lock people down and got it under control as a result.
Here we see footage of people pissed up in the pubs last night, hear stories of elderly parents refusing to self isolate and schools remaining open despite confirmed cases.
I mean Jesus we won’t even test our nhs staff so they know if they even need to be at home for 14 days or not.
It’s never going to be under control here in 2 months.