WWYD if your lone parent caught the virus?

[CatsMother66]

My Mum is 87, registered blind and lives alone, she has not been out since the March lockdown. She has no help apart from me which I’m more than happy to do. As a SAHM, I’m able to go over a couple of times in the week.
Talking today with DH, I said that if Mum caught the virus then I would move in with her to look after her as depending on the severity she may need someone to be there. DH would have to see to DS12. I would isolate as needed. Does anyone have any plans themselves in relation to lone parents getting Covid? I would love to hear your views please.

I would do the very same. My Mum who is in her early 70's is on her own. If she caught it and asked me to help I'd be there like a shot. I'm fit and healthy and would take the usual precautions but wouldn't worry about being there.

Thanks for the reply. DH was a bit surprised. I would want to be there to help with food etc and I know that Mum would never phone for help even if she needed emergency help.
If anyone else has ideas or views, I would love to hear them please.

That was my plan, I don't tick any of the risk boxes and I know full well that she'd not ask for help even if she were dying, what with not wanting to bother anyone.

Do you live locally ?

Do you work ?

I live 40 minutes away and no longer work

I live in dread of it. I work ft and have kids. It’d have to be hospital if she needed more than visiting carers.

I would get my mum to move in with us. I am not leaving her to fend for herself.

I think moving in with someone who is unwell (or them moving in with you) is lovely but ok if the unwell person wants it. Some people wouldn't want this and that's absolutely fine- especially as it's their home.

Just commenting as the OP says she was discussing with her husband but not mentioned asking her mum about it.

Similar, I don't have kids (they are at university) so easier for me

My mum is currently in hospital, i haven't been allowed to visit for 3 weeks. we've just be told another patient on the ward has tested positive 😢, so thinking about this very thing. We have been told she needs to isolate for 2 weeks now and if she gets home in those 2 weeks only carers will be allowed to visit. So keep all your fingers crossed for us she doesn't get it. I have no idea what we will do.

I moved my Dad in with me last lockdown, he went home in August but I'm just convincing him to come back.
It's easier for me because of pets and Dad is overwhelmed with the rules so isn't putting up much resistance.
It's a weight off when he's here.

A friend did this in the first fortnight of lockdown. Her husband had had major heart surgery about a month earlier, then her mum, almost 90, went down with what definitely appeared to be Covid ( no tests outside hospital then).
She left husband at home and moved in with her mum. Thankfully her mum, although bed bound for a few days and not well for about ten days, made a full recovery.
She self isolated before going home. All well since until last week when both she and her husband tested positive for Covid and have been looking after one another since.
It seems strange that she didn't catch it while very close ( intimate care) with her mum for over 2 weeks, but both she and her husband caught it on a day's walk with friends.
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My mum is 74, lives alone many hours away from me (I work full time as does DH and we have two young DC) and she works in a hospital! I was at my wits’ end with her at the start of all this asking her to quit her job but she’s fit and well, healthy (other than high BP managed easily with medication) and has no issues with anything. I’ve no idea what I’d do if she got it - I’d be led by her and what she wants but it’s something I panic about every so often.