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Which specific moment from this will stay with you forever?

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RosieLemonade · 13/02/2021 15:18

Positive or negative.

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QueenPaw · 13/02/2021 20:36

Oh I forgot the food situation. I couldn't get any food, shielding and no supermarket had me on the delivery list so I went a month with no delivery or ability to go out and get food. The government food box didn't arrive either until 6 weeks in
A local pub kindly delivered me a parcel and it had dark chocolate digestives in which were amazing. Made me realise what food I really missed which is now what I keep stocked up on

NeverDropYourMoonCup · 13/02/2021 20:38

Being screamed at down the phone by a parent because I'd 'completely overreacted' in sending their teenager home with a fever, having had to look after them for four and a half hours whilst said parent travelled the three quarters of a mile from their home to school.

My symptoms started a few days later.

Ginfizplease · 13/02/2021 20:38

Early on, there were so many lovely moments. As a a teacher, I genuinely relished the initially slower pace of life and the time I had with my own children without having to run them around everywhere. The work side was stressful with home learning but it was such lovely weather and I had some gorgeous moments. I don't know if I could choose just one.

I thought we'd escaped the bad. So now I struggle to enjoy any good. My loved one succumbed to Covid in January. Nothing will ever be the same now. Finding out he was end of life was the worst moment.

GlitterWasp · 13/02/2021 20:40

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purplejungle · 13/02/2021 20:40

Completely isolating for several months at the end of pregnancy (other than antenatal care) with covid at the forefront of every thought, to then have an unexpectedly very poorly ds at birth and suddenly covid just being in the background.

To then 24 hours later being told my covid swab in labour had come back positive and having to leave ds in NICU to isolate at home. No symptoms.

To then a week later seeing my parents outside NICU (they had brought a car for us to get home) - first time I'd seen them in months. Couldn't hug or get anywhere near them.

Weirdest week of my life with covid both centre stage and suddenly unimportant compared with the health of ds.

Biscoffaddict · 13/02/2021 20:40

I had my eyebrows done about ten days before the first lockdown when just as the tide was starting to turn and things were obviously getting serious and I can remember wondering if it was safe for me to even go out, let alone have someone wax and dye my brows! I went and then all salons shut days later.

A huge positive for me was walks I did when the weather was nice. I found so many lovely places near me that I didn’t know existed,

bofski14 · 13/02/2021 20:48

Bad - the last time I went into a shop (March 13th 2020). I dashed to the big Tesco to stock up because we'd heard bad things were coming. The shelves had been emptied, the aisles were heaving, everyone was panicked. I was on my own and remember looking around thinking that this can't be real. The newspaper display was in front of me with a big picture of Boris Johnson looking haggard and the headline "Many will lose loved ones". I remember looking around at all the people and thinking "Some of these are going to be killed by this virus". I burst into tears there and then with the shock of it. I'll never forget that and I haven't set foot in a shop since.

Good - lots of kitchen dancing with my beautiful little girl and my partner to "Boogie Wonderland" and other disco classics on the Alexa. Also, "Tiger King" and binge watching "The Office" were high points.

BikeRunSki · 13/02/2021 20:49

Having my hair cut on the Saturday afternoon before the first lockdown, and Googling what that afternoon speech said for my hairdresser (she’s also a long-standing friend). She said then, that on the day she had to close she’d stay open til midnight. Two days later I walked past at 10pm and she was open for the last few clients she could fit in.

LadyLolaRuben · 13/02/2021 20:49

Deathly quiet roads and blistering heat of last summer - wave 1

MumofSpud · 13/02/2021 20:49

We were in New York Feb 2020 - usually DH is v lax with washing hands when out and about but that was the first time he (and DD and myself) all had hand sanitiser with us and kept putting it on.
On the subway a man was coughing a lot, we got off at the next stop and DH literally covered DD's nose and mouth with sanitizer (she was 14 but didn't even complain?!)
POS: our lockdown kitten (I know we shouldn't have
Negative: made redundant in the summer
Positive: My new job is great!

NotMyDayJob · 13/02/2021 20:51

Negative - I miscarried in the first lockdown, it was my third in six months and I had to go through it mostly on my own while trying to look after 2 year old DD. It was the loneliest time of my life

Positive - but on the plus side, spending more time together as a family, DH travelled a lot for work, and we rarely had family time so although it's not been easy and it's now unlikely we'll have another DC it has helped shaped how we want our family to be. DH has moved on to a perm remote contract so even when things return to some sort of normality he'll have more time at home.

Icequeen01 · 13/02/2021 20:54

Finding out I was positive after having my 81 year old mum in the car with me 2 days previously. 12 out of my 17 colleagues at work had also tested positive so I was pretty sure it was the Kent strain (and we live in Kent!) as it ripped through us. I had taken my mum to get her 2nd Covid jab and it was a 30 minute journey each way. Not only did I feel rough with Covid but I spent 2 weeks in utter panic that I had passed the virus to her.

Luckily, I think her 1st jab had given her a good bit of immunity as she never caught it - or at least never had any symptoms! Sadly, I pass it in to my DH and DS but they had it very mildly.

DrunkenKoala · 13/02/2021 20:54

Going into Sainsbury’s a day or two before the schools closed and seeing the shelves stripped bare. An old lady looking for a small box of teabags and I managed to find some on a top shelf for her. She was so grateful. I don’t know why but I often thought about her over that first lockdown as she seemed so vulnerable that day and then I saw her again in September/October and felt relieved that she got through the first wave.

Elsia · 13/02/2021 20:55

Meeting my parents in a car park halfway between our towns, to exchange Christmas presents. And looking around the car park and seeing dozens of families doing exactly the same thing.

It was the first time I had seen them since March and I haven’t seen them since. My mum misses her granddaughters so much that she cries after every FaceTime.

When my parents have been vaccinated I am going to visit them. I am. But they’re not even 60 yet so it’ll be a while I guess.

Justmuddlingalong · 13/02/2021 20:58

When lockdown 1 was announced, DP were out for a walk. An elderly gentleman was heading towards us in the pavement so we stepped onto the road to have a safe distance between us and him. He was wearing a wee tweed cap and doffed it to thank us. It still makes me well up thinking of it.

TheRoomWhereItHappened · 13/02/2021 20:59

Going round to a friend’s garden for a socially distanced tea when we could meet up but not inside. What started off in beautiful sunshine turned into us both sitting wrapped in blankets under golf umbrellas int the pouring rain of a British summer Grin

purplebagladylovesgin · 13/02/2021 21:00

Our lovely Post Master (rural village), collecting my mail to be sent out and delivering bread milk and Easter eggs for the children.

I cried at his thoughtfulness that day. I felt so vulnerable as at that point I couldn't leave the house.

Oregano20 · 13/02/2021 21:02

Spending 5 days alone in hospital after giving birth and my OH not being able to see his son until I was discharged

And empty shelves, not being able to book a food delivery, rationing fruit and veg etc

Twomillionvaccines · 13/02/2021 21:04

These are all so heartrending and we're not even out of it yet.

That final week, Thursday 11th, one of my DC's went on a coach trip to RAF Hendon, I remember being vaguely surprised it had gone ahead, Fri my DH had to go to London to see customers and I was pretty concerned. That night he went to a talk with a friend and the friend later came down with Covid, my DH was supposed to be going cycling to Mallorca on Sat 13th but it was all cancelled on Fri 12th. It all started to feel so ominous. I remember going to the gym for the last time and everyone was there, all defiant and weirdly the atmosphere felt quite charged, almost excitement but not that, nervous tension? Then in December when we went into Tier 4 I went to the gym on Dec 18th for the last time, felt totally different, no defiance, half the class didn't even come, drove off in tears. All tiny things in comparison to awful stories on here but feel I will never forget.

Thewinterofdiscontent · 13/02/2021 21:08

I remember the long hot summer and the complete joy of not having to be in work for six weeks, not having to go out and not having people drop round whilst I was in my bikini ( drinking wine at midday).

I also remember feeling genuinely worried when Tesco was pretty much bare. Luckily it only lasted a week or two.

IncludeWomenInTheSequel · 13/02/2021 21:08

@WatchWatch

The very long and warm summer spent in the paddling pool with the kids, no school, no socialising. Just us and endless sun. Felt like summers from when I was a kid. Was lovely.
Exactly the same here.

The first day I heard an aeroplane flying over us again was almost a bit sad; oh, the worlds gearing up again

JustCheesz · 13/02/2021 21:11

DD going abroad on a school trip in February 2020.

At the parents information evening, one mum asked if we should be concerned about travelling because of the virus. Everyone else rolled their eyes at someone being 'that' parent!

Looking back, I can't believe the trip went ahead.

PuzzledObserver · 13/02/2021 21:11

The scariest moment for me was when I was sitting in the living room with earbuds in and DH was watching TV, when he suddenly made the most dreadful noise and sort of spasmed. I leapt up, thinking he was having a stroke or seizure or something, induced by Covid.

I couldn’t find the phone to ring 999, but turned to check if he was actually breathing - he opened his eyes and asked me what I was doing.

I then worked out that he had fallen asleep, and without his CPAP machine (he has sleep apnoea) he had had an apnoea episode - the noise and ‘spasm’ were him starting breathing again.

Oh, how we laughed.

LionLily · 13/02/2021 21:12

My first shift after the first lockdown was announced.
A night shift in a care home six miles away in a rural location.

I drove the whole way not seeing another car. At one point I could see the blue lights of an ambulance on another road across some fields. That was the only sign of life.
I had to pul l over before I went into work and just gather myself a bit. I had been very matter-of-fact at home, reassuring the teens etc but inside I was just 'WTFing'.

Lottiejack · 13/02/2021 21:13

My mum’s funeral on the Thursday after lockdown. The week before it, not knowing who could come or who couldn’t. The morning of the funeral the 27th, it being a glorious sunny morning, not seeing another car on the road and having to get a garage forecourt bunch of flowers to put on the coffin.... it’s her anniversary on the 3rd of March and I still haven’t got over it..... also not knowing whether she really died of COVID... it was b4 they started testing and she was heavily ventilated...... in a care home prior to admission to hospital.... and the priest that gave last rites died of COVID...... not three weeks later.... weird times March 2020