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..

In almost every community you will have

A church who could help
A local shop
A takeaway
Neighbours who you could talk through the window to if you don't have a number
A food bank who you could email/ring
A fruit and veg box delivery-service
Amazon fresh /pantry
Give me your address I will send you a loaf of bloody bread first class tomorrow morning

Don't send your kid for bread it's evil.

And before you say it it's alright for some I live on one of the roughest estates in Yorkshire and we have all these services and the community is helping/looking out for each other.

I'm sure you'll all ignore me but if its it's possible to just stop for a moment and literally take a few deep breaths it might be a good moment .

What we have seen this week is unprecedented and it is getting really scary. Emotions are running incredibly high. Also with this you feel a bit foggy so harder to take things in.

Sorry, "take a few deep breaths" did make me laugh 😂

That's what we're all trying to do isn't it, keep the ability to breathe deeply

Agree post.

This is new for everyone and people are struggling is it too much to be kind?

Crusty

I give up. You are determined to vilify me without listening. Thankfully I don't know you so can walk away, I hope you are kinder in real life than you are on here. And I'm glad you know my situation better than I do too

Ffs. It's a pandemic.

Sending the kids out from a house when most of the house are I'll is completely irresponsible.

If it covid, the fact that one of the kids doesnt have symptoms means fuck all. They could still have it.

You arent on facebook? Non of the teenagers are? Then bloody join.

Call local church and community centres. Where people are meeting. Call local shops.

But do not send someone out from the house

Fuck yes Crab I have it and am absolutely trying to keep breathing

I've been doing pursed lip breathing which helps I think .

I'm listening to you left but are you listening to what everyone here is telling you? What the government are telling you?

There are ways to get essentials without anyone leaving your house. You speak of kindness, it is not kind to expose other people to your illness.

At the time I sent him out I did not realise it was such a risk, the guidelines say that people from households isolating are still allowed out to exercise. Having no other choice (the list a pp shared upthread does not cover my area) I sent DS out.

You know, I realise now this is wrong but but you catch far more flies with sugar than with vinegar. And seeing from other threads on here I am not the only person who interpreted the rules on this way.

Perhaps the Govt needs to tighten/clarify the rules on asymptomatic people in isolated households leaving the house

They are as clear as day. If you need groceries someone will get them for you and leave them outside. You can NC and ask on here, you can join fbook and ask.

What the fuck do you want me to do Crab?? Prostrate myself at your feet?

There are ways and means, being so mean is not the way

What? All I want is for everyone to realise that they need to stay indoors if they are self isolating.

You said the government's advice wasn't clear to you. It's there and it's clear.

You keep going on about me being "mean". Scroll back a bit, I told you that you shouldn't let your son out. I told op she shouldn't send her daughter to her dads. I asked what was so difficult to understand about that.

In response you told me to "fuck off" and called me a "bell end"

Erm....ok then

@LefttoherownDevizes Sorry to hear about your mum. The first Mother's Day is always hard without them.
Your 11 year old coming back with 7up and dairy milk made me giggle.
It'll be a month of random picnics 😁😂 Hope you're feeling as ok as you can be 🙂

I think I/we may have had it this week.
On the self isolation thing I thought it was 7 days from symptom onset, have I got that wrong ?
So for us: DD fever and cough last sunday can go out tommorow
DS cough from tuesday can go out tuesday
Me fever, not really any cough but chest tightness wednesday , can go back to work friday
Dh nothing stuck inside till next monday

If this wrong can you let me know. ?

Thank you

From the BBC website:

@hopefulhalf

Who should self-isolate?
Everyone who shows coronavirus symptoms - a fever of above 37.8C, a persistent cough or breathing problem - and everyone who lives in the same house or flat as someone with symptoms.

If you live alone, you must stay at home for seven days from the day symptoms start
If you or someone you live with has symptoms, then the entire household needs to isolate for 14 days from the day they start
Anyone in the household who starts displaying new symptoms during the 14-day period will need to stay at home for seven more days, regardless of how long they have already been isolated

Thanks that what I thought kids are fine though still snotty/ coughing a bit.
Interestingly DH with no or very few symptoms makes his own tonic water with chinchoa bark (natural source of quinnine, similar to the drugs used in trials... I wonder)

Sorry I'm supposed to be going back thursday

Unfortunately @crustycrab this is what we are dealing with in this world. Stupid, selfish people who cannot follow basic guidelines. Full of pathetic excuses. I’m looking forward to a lockdown just to keep this stupidity indoors.

LefttoherownDevizes

Set up a facebook account and search for [town name] community group or [town name] Support and so on.

Do you have a fever or constant cough?

OP you need to realise that your dad "taking the hit" could mean he dies whereas your daughter would probably just get a cold, unless she has underlying conditions. Would you really rather he died than she have a cold?

At 14 she shouldn't be in any particular danger even if you are unable to care for her for a while.