Anyone else teary tonight

[StealthPolarBear]

It's not like me. It's just hit me.

On and off the past few days. Had a big old weep yesterday which was cathartic. Feel bit better today but I expect the emotions to continue...

I've just had news that a friend missed a bone marrow transplant by days, thanks to this. The time frame has been missed.

Bloody hell I missed that kinky that is really awful and puts my poorly hands onto perspective! I don't know what to say other than life is really shit.

So sorry lweji

I'm a pregnant teacher. I finished with my class on Friday for the St Patrick's Holidays, I'll not be teaching again until after I've had my baby.

I'm so glad schools are closed to protect staff and pupils but I've been so sad, sad to know I've taught my class for the last time, that I never got to properly say goodbye to them, that I didn't get to reassure my more vulnerable children. I have been carrying the thoughts of those kids in my heart all week. I've cried many times at the thoughts of what I have mentioned above.

I'd give anything to be going back to school on Monday morning as normal, it's not an early holiday and it's even worse to read some of the usual crap of how handy teachers get it.

I nearly cried for the first time this morning. I can't do my normal (I'm listening and have stopped)

I keep thinking surely our luck will change, Stealth, then we get another bashing. Coronavirus is the icing on the particularly shitty cake.

We've met before op 😉 . I think r we all should stock together where possible

lweji that's awful. I really hope something can be done.

I'm also drunk because of what is going on

That thread about why aren't teachers losing jobs was ignorant beyond words. Teachers will not be having a holiday, they'll either be teaching in very difficult circumstances, babysitting kids they barely know while their parents work, or off sick themselves. If any of those sound like a holiday you have had some seriously shitty holidays. My daughters teacher emailed about how it would work. I emailed back thanking him and wishing him and his family well. He replied which I wasn't expecting, he sounded bewildered and scared. I suspect he'd prefer to be taking them all swimming and then teaching English as normal on Monday.

Yes, DD1 who suffers with anxiety is feeling the strain as she doesn't quite understand how her teacher is proposing to distribute homework. We've had tired, cross words and she's gone to bed in tears. I too am feeling wobbly, sitting down to put together 2 weeks worth of individually differentiated home learning in packs, worrying about my needier pupils, and whether they're likely to be feeling like my daughter.

I've had to hug 2 tearful people today. One was dd2, unable to compute that social distancing means she can't go round to her mate's for tea tomorrow. The other was her piano teacher, when I went round to give her some cash in lieu of next 2 lessons and a spare webcam so she can sort some kind of skype thing up for after Easter hols.

I feel a bit too numb and 'at the barricades' to cry at the moment tbh.

My children live in another country. Just realised it may be months until I get to see them. Was supposed to go this week heartbroken

KinkyDoritowithsparkleson that's shit. I hope your fears are wrong. How long do you have to wait for results, or is that now on hold?

Yes me. It's my son's last day at school tomorrow. He's only in reception and this is not how I envisaged the last day of his first year of school. I keep telling myself that there are a lot more people a lot worse off but I'm panicking slightly about how to be a good parent to him and his little brother over the months to come while juggling work too. He has SEN so already finds learning difficult but had started to thrive at school. Just really sad for him.

Oh and back to my teachers rant, that state of affairs is likely to continue through their actual 'holiday'

Me. Can I join in please?! :(. Has finally hit me today. I feel so sad, scared, guilty. Got no one to speak to in real life. Me and boyfriend of 3. 5years broke up on very bad terms a month ago. And with all that's going on I just want to be with him. And check that he's OK, but there's absolutely no way I can contact him. :( sorry this is trivial compared to lots of people's problems. But it's breaking my heart everday. The rest of my family is disjointed. I'm on my own.

#reikizen PM me I will send you a couple of rolls.

Very. Been a very bad day and there’s more to come.

Stealth thought it would be this Weds, but they hadn't come back (12 days post surgery), now hoping next Weds. Weds is when the treatment team meet then update. I'm really hoping it was a mistake, but they saw aggressive markers on the scans and they can't remove it all. The discharge notes have him down as a high grade tumour. I think the biopsy just confirms and helps them to try and predict how fast it grows back.

I’m finding it very comforting to think of all the people before me in history who felt the same as we do now, who felt this same sense of unreality and fear of the unknown, but who ultimately survived times of isolation, war, fear, disease and hardship. There’s something universal and human about the experience, and it’s very humbling. We are not alone

So true. And our grandparents went through a million times worse in WW2. It makes me even more in awe of that generation and their resilience.

Yes. I'm scared shitless and start 12 weeks isolation tomorrow per the government guidelines. Our house is tiny.

Yeah but down. Lost my job. Husband in isolation as he’s immune compromised