Think I may have it?? Hopefully not

[littlemissmuffins]

I was in a shop on Wednesday where the cashier was coughing a lot.

Yesterday I had a bad headache (I rarely get headaches), hoping it was just a menstrual headache.

Started getting muscle aches in my lower arms and legs which I still have, and slept throughout most of the day.

Have slept and slept and I'm just so weak and tired. It's taken ages to type this due to mistakes and exhaustion. I've never even had flu before. I've basically slept since yesterday.

Youngest is at his dads, Eldest a teenager, is here. I have food in for a few weeks. she microwaved her food yesterday. Dettol sprayed everything I've touched past few days yesterday and we are keeping to separate rooms. Should I send her to my families 16 miles away to keep her away from me or not??

I'm really hoping it's not covid I have and I'm just mentally exhausted, I have never been this exhausted. I literally have to get out of bed in stages.

No idea if this is psychological aches and exhaustion or the real deal, guess I will find out in time..

Where do you live OP? General area. Someone on here might be able to private message you and drop off supplies

I am on the Wirral. If you are nearby I can help

Teenagers are much more able than people give them credit for if they are allowed to be. They are all going to have to step up at the moment. It will be good for them in the long run as give them usual life skills.

Namechanger we've been living without "fucking bread" for days. We have tinned food. Unlike some, I prepared way back in February. I only have a few weeks worth though and no money, and not many robust Family members though, so I am worried. and tired.

@LefttoherownDevizes so you don't get bread. There are people all over social media offering to drop things on your doorstep. None of you leave the house, what's so fucking difficult to understand about that?!

And OP. You want your dad to "take the hit"? What the actual fuck is wrong with you? Your kids will be fine.

STAY INDOORS

@crustycrab she may not be thinking entirely straight if she is sick. Kind words and offers of help are more likely to ensure she and her daughter can stay at home.

Though I do agree. Your daughter and you should be self isolating

She was talking to @LefttoherownDevizes

Good, you've got tinned food, eat that if you need to. Do not let anyone leave the house.

Manage for a few more days then.

Do you have a cough or a fever?

Sounds like you have a migraine if symptoms are headache and blurred vision?

Kind words? Jesus wept.

People have been "advised". They don't listen. They could kill me and other people I love.

Sending people from a sick household to get bread? Sending a kid who will likely only get a mild illness to their grandfather 16 miles away (assuming said kid will go on public transport ).

Sorry. No. Kindness isn't gonna do it. These people need telling.

Unfortunately if your dad does 'take the hit' and ends up needing hospital he will have deprived someone else from getting the hospital care they want and need. (Because we are going to run out of appropriate hospital care in the next few weeks).

I buy that some people don't mind dying from Covid-19 but I wish they'd write an Advance Decision refusing hospital care first.

Thank you so much those who have offered to help. We do have food I got in in Feb just in case, but thanks anyway. I agree teenagers are much more able than people give them credit for, my daughter at 14 has been doing great at school, helping with housework as I worked full time as a single Parent, and even working herself part time.

I just don't want either of them to get this virus ☹️☹️

Hopefully I feel better soon and this is nothing

Look on your council website for covid 19 help they will have directory of services and volunteers etc if you don't have Facebook

If you do have Facebook look up covid 19 mutual aid then your county or borough loads of people able to do drop offs or go to the chemist

OP - I was talking to @LefttoherownDevizes

Who has merrily sent her kid down the corner shop for bread from a household with fevers and coughs the stupidity and selfishness of people for fucking bread - risking someone life in her local community for bread

That is what this is

Crusty fuck off

I have a child at home at high risk from this, so I absolutely do get it. I am not on Facebook and again have no one who can help, I don't think you can hear me when I say that, some people genuinely have no one to help.

The last thing I need is some bell end being rude to me online

Seriously - u r on MN so clearly have internet access - get on Facebook and ask for help to get your supplies

We have high risk people in our lives too who are well at the moment touch wood- we do t want your kid in the shop passing into our household

Stop being a fuck wit - ask for help and solutions instead

Who do I ask? My mum who died? My suicidal brother who lives 2 hours away? My 80yo step mum and dad self isolating who live an hour away?

How lovely to live your lives with a stream of people ready to support you. Not all of us are so lucky. First mother's Day without my mum too

I can't engage with you anymore after this @LefttoherownDevizes
Stupid & in denial

It's quite simple - ask your local community for help via Facebook - presuming u do actually live somewhere as there's a shop u sent your kid too.

Ring the shop and ask if they'll deliver

Etc.....

Do you have a temperature and a cough? If not then it sounds like a different virus to me, but you should all stay home and self isolate for 14 days regardless.

Name I am neither

You really know how to kick a horse when it's down.

@littlemissmuffins
It's psychological.... placebo
The guidance is clear: a new persistent cough or high temperature.
Otherwise you'll be self-isolating multiple times... for 14 days at a time which is not easy and therefore you are liable to compromise when you do actually get it

On the bbc news app they have a link to all the groups around the country that you can join. People will bring supplies to your

Copied from another thread

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If anyone is willing to post their rough area on here, anyone local who is willing to help could PM them.

Please don't send members of households with symptoms to the shops. The quicker this (highly infectious) virus spreads, the more overwhelmed the NHS becomes, and the more people die because they cannot get the care they need. And it is NOT a pleasant or peaceful way to die.

Don't panic about your kids getting the virus - it generally affects them very mildly. Do not expose anyone outside your household.

No @LefttoherownDevizes I won't fuck off.

You say you understand but you don't. You've willingly spread your germs around your community for bread.

"I'm not on Facebook" ok then, kill someone for bread....alternatively create an account and ask for what you need. Or ask on MN.

You are stupid. And selfish. It's not difficult is it? Stay indoors. The advice is clear.