Wish i had caught it earlier

[Bookriddle]

My wife is a frontline nurse working in ICU, after telling me about her shift yesterday i really wish i had caught this virus earlier!

I dont normally get anxiety about my health, but im diabetic! And to be honest im now scared shitless!

Her hospital no longer has room in ICU, people are fighting for a bed in there now, she was running 2 ventilated patients yesterday, which is a major risk, and should be 1 to 1! They had 2 people die yesterday, one was 45 and the other was 22, 22 year old had no understanding health conditions

She caught the virus back in November and i never caught it, just wish i had now, the last 2 weeks has been horrendous for her at work!

Bookriddle thank your wife for all she does she deserves all our gratitude
You didn’t get it in November so probably no reason that you will get it now some people just don’t Keep yourself safe

I had a similar thought

I don’t want to catch it at all - I have a serious co-morbidity (CEV, shielding) which is increasingly over-represented in both hospital and ICU admissions

But if I had to get it, then I would have wanted it at a time when there would be a bed for me

Plus of course what I’m really wishing is that I could know that I’m not going to die from it. And in my case that’s not over-anxiety. It’s the worry I don’t usually let myself dwell on

Just a couple of thoughts, my (admittedly limited) understanding is that just because you have had it once, doesnt mean you than become immune, so you could still catch it again.
Whilst I am sorry about your anxiety, and apologies if this sounds harsh but I hope you are just venting on here and actually being strong for your wife. She is doing an extremely important and dangerous job which will leave her physically, emotionally and mentally exhausted and stressed. When she come home it should be to relax and recupperate.

My DD is an ICU nurse and has been looking after 4 ventilated patients (instead of the usual 1 per nurse ratio) all her shifts since Christmas. She's lucky to get a 10 minute break on a 12 hour shift. Her partner is a paramedic and his shifts are up to 4 hours longer, because of the queues backing up to handover patients at the end of the shift.
People who say this isn't as bad as it is, really need to wake up.

Thank you NHS again as always.

I wish I had caught it earlier, if at all, now all I can do is keep this family out of ITU and not catch it now. Easier said than done perhaps.

We have been quite anal about the rules most of the way through as self preservation but now, seeing the pressure on the health service, wanting the NHS staff to not go home distressed, we will continue to stay home. As pants as it is. We hope to not contribute to the pressure for everyone's sake.

well my worst nightmare has come true. I have been shielding all year, but DH still has to to go work and now I have Covid when the hospitals are overwhelmed. I have underlying conditions and am 50. I have been washing shopping and quarantining post and have only left the house twice this year. I am scared and told myself to stay away from the internet for a while, as I cannot change anything now. What will be will be. Dh was lucky and only got a bit of a sniffle for a week. I am not doing as well.

Even if I recover from this strain I will still probably catch the other variant and the South African one.

I am just sick of it all now.

I have also been very careful all year, as has DH, as we both work with vulnerable elderly people and didn’t want to risk taking it to them. Also aged 57/60 and overweight/obese (in my case, very, with diabetes), we are at increased risk of a nasty dose.

Despite all that care, and the PPE and all the rest at his workplace, there is an outbreak there, he brought it home, and we both have symptoms. Fortunately mild - but several of the residents at his place have died, despite all precautions.

I’m hoping that the multiple studies showing immunity after infection are more accurate that anecdotal accounts of “I’ve had it twice”. I’m not saying it’s impossible to have it more than once, that clearly can happen. But I’m hoping it is very uncommon, as the studies suggest.

After all, I apparently have a 1 in 570 chance of hospitalisation and 1 in 3,000 chance of dying from it, but I don’t appear to be about to do either.