Just tested positive and need to moan

[PlantPotPat]

Just received a positive result - I do weekly screening via work.

Asymptomatic until this morning, and even then only a mild headache and hot burning face. No temp, no cough, no anything else.

I need to moan because:

Now stuck in the house with a nearly 3 year old. I'm not ashamed to admit I was never meant to be a full time stay at home parent. I'm no good at it. And now we can't leave the house for walks or scooting or anything and I feel like crying.

Can't see my eldest DC who I have 50/50 care of - DC wasn't here when I received the result so now can't see them for 10 days when I've not seen them since NYD.

Really really big project at work coming to fruition next week and into the following 2 weeks which I so need to focus on.

DP working from home when as an emergency services worker he's normally out of the house (frankly I'm blaming him for fucking giving it to me as I've not been anywhere) and therefore it's entirely impossible for me to self isolate within the house as I have to look after the toddler.

Teenage DSS also self isolating here which means hours every day listening to him screaming and shouting into a computer headset, all decent food being hoovered up without care or thought.

I'm feeling very miserable. Sorry.

Sorry you're feeling miserable. It really is shit having to self isolate

I had it over xmas and it messed up out xmas somewhat (was meant to have out single,lonely friend over. He ended up spending xmas day alone).

I was still working as I wasnt feeling massively unwell, so that filled some time. So my advice, just do whatever you can to get through it. If the toddler needs In the night garden (or whatever is the in programme for toddlers these days) on 24/7 just do it.

Thanks @SpnBaby1967 This too shall pass, right??

Although I did think if I have to spend the next 10 days listening to that fucking whiny little bastard Norman on fireman Sam I might lose my mind .

@PlantPotPat day 6 of isolation with a nearly
3 year old here.
I'm on the brink of murdering my DH and DS because they're both so fucking annoying.
I too wasn't made to be a a sahp 🤯
I'm having a bet that nurseries will shut soon and this will be my life for the forceable future.
My work is suffering and I'm at an all time low but year this too shall pass....just pass me gun first!

Yeah it’s crap. And Norman really is the worst.

Shouting at computer teens.... I feel your pain....

@PlantPotPat You have my absolute sympathy regarding Norman, when my Dd was 3 she had Norman as her imaginary friend.
For weeks, everything was Norman says, Norman wants, Norman is sitting there, until one day, suddenly Norman disappeared.

Wary of starting the whole thing off again, I very tentatively mentioned him after a couple of days of peace and quiet. Dd cheerfully informed me that Norman had gone away because apparently he was getting on her nerves!

As for all the decent food being hoovered up, you need a plan and that is to hide whatever YOU fancy/want/need. Something like a Magnum ice creams could easily be concealed in an empty Birds Eye zip lock Peti Pois bag under other veg in the freezer. Anything chilled seems to be safer in the salad draw under a few veg. Cupboard stuff behind things like icing sugar or a bag of unopened flour usually works too!

Thanks everyone for the sympathy! And sorry to all of you who have/are experiencing similar.

I had a little cry earlier, especially when my childminder said she was shutting to get tested and I felt horribly guilty.

I've done some crafting with toddler which has resulted in approximately 2 tonnes of gold glitter getting accidentally spilt and now we are going into the garden for some 'fun'

Excellent advice re hiding food - we already do this to some extent but have to be a bit careful as I often find half eaten things which we've cunningly hidden and then forgotten about which is worse than them being gobbled up by an ungrateful teenager.

@arthurdaly I think my panic about having to isolate with the toddler is coloured by my experiences over lockdown 1 - trying to support older kids with home learning and manage the littlest single handedly while also working full time brought me to tears most days every day and now I feel like I don't have any 'reserves' left; I'm already sort of at my limit with having the house full of people all the time and not even being able to go to the bloody toilet without someone popping in to talk to me.

It's something that is hard to admit in real life as I feel like I have to temper any moaning about how near the end of my tether I am with how much I love them all and how I know I'm lucky to have what we have in case it sounds like I'm not grateful. Not sure if that makes sense really.

We had it over Christmas. Sounds silly but it annoys me that we're all in lockdown, and yet for the next three months we are immune.

My husband had the virus worse than me, and is still off work, and feeling rough.

Agh the screaming and shouting into the headset! Why does it have to be so loud?!

Can you catch the teen in a non Xbox moment - perhaps when well fed and appeal to their better side? I find that it helps to switch the volume down on the incoming noise - they can shout more quietly then or even agree to an isolation rule of if you are shouting it has to go off? It's the only rule which reaches parts of my teen nothing else will reach. You could buy your teen a book to read in case the Xbox has to go off!! That should be a terrifying reminder, if propped on the shelf looking at them!

Yes @Dawnlassie of course that is exactly what I'd prefer. Well done

@Dawnlassie

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Couldn't agree more.

Could MNHQ issue you with a banhammer and you can eviscerate anybody who has gripes, worries or concerns below the level of imminent hospitalisation. Maybe we could also let you have people's home addresses so you can go round and shit on their doorsteps if they dare to express any human sentiment on here?

OP, this too shall pass. I think it's okay to just get through this bit however you can.

When I wrote my op I started to add a disclaimer that yes, I know I'm lucky to have a job, my DP has a job, neither of us are at deaths door, blah blah and then I thought, don't be silly, you won't need to point that out. People obviously know you are allowed to have a moan without having to justify it.....