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Caring for cancer patient

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merrygocircle · 26/03/2020 14:05

A close friend of mine has just done a round of chemo and I'm interested in responses from people in a similar situation, not just answers from the corona police.

Obviously healthwise she is highly vulnerable, and is self isolating. She is able to care for herself in terms of simple cooking etc but she's not feeling great at all. Her dd is going round taking shopping and doing any jobs that need doing, as is permitted under the current guidelines of caring for a vulnerable person, but I'm wondering if her dd should be even going in the house. Should she just be dropping stuff outside? Is anyone else in a similar situation where someone is entering the house to help care for someone?

Obviously she is being really careful re hand washing etc and is not doing much else apart from doing her mum's jobs, so she isn't coming in to contact with others much, just going food shopping once a week.

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merrygocircle · 26/03/2020 14:07

I should add, my friend is feeling very low so if she didn't have her dd going to care for her she would really struggle, but equally she doesn't want to take risks so she's struggling to weigh it up.

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yearinyearout · 27/03/2020 06:30

Various sick people have carers from the community going in and out of their house to wash them etc, isn't that similar?

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