if you have the virus how are you managing with isolating from your family?

[EricaNernie]

i was planning on buying an airbed to keep apart, we have a small house so no spare room

I'm not sure if I had it or not (fever, diarrhoea, loss of sense of smell & taste but no cough) and I didn't basically

I still had to look after my toddler and our house is tiny anyway. I figured that they'd probably already caught it if they were going to

None of us have any risk factors though, if I'd been living with someone vulnerable I may have done things differently

If I get the virus I don't see the point of isolating from the household as surely they will have been exposed already before symptoms? I do worry about us all getting it and not being able to rest and recover properly because we have a toddler.. it's not like we can send him to a relative.

We both came down with it at the same time so haven't done much isolation within the house.

i was thinking of buying an airbed

Not sure I’d bother much either. At the start of all this, the was lots of guidance and instruction about shutting yourself away, being the last to use the bathroom and then cleaning it thoroughly after every time you’ve used it. I don’t see that in evidence so much any more. Quite a few people have been so ill with the virus they’ve been literally crawling to the toilet - are they really expected to pull on some marigolds and get the toilet duck out when they can barely stand?

On day 26 here. I would recommend that you isolate from your family as much as possible if you get sick, at least for the first week. I spent the first 14 days holed up in the bedroom and dh brought me food and drink a couple of times a day.

Dh did get it, symptoms starting at (my) day 14 and the boys caught it from him. Luckily they were all.v mild cases but I think it might have been worse if I'd been breathing virus all over them for weeks (I am a moderate case).

An air bed on the living room for the non affected floor would be fine OP

thanks, hope everyone gets well soon