Thread 19 - Corona Cohort, Enrolling on Year 13, hopefully NOT unlucky for some

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How long after return did he do the PCR 20?

@ZittiEBuoni - high 5 back. They are 23 months apart (September 2003 and August 2005) and in the same sixth form. They're also in the same tutor group as the school has vertical tutor groups.

There are 18 months between DS1 and DD but they had an academic year between them because of March 2002 and September 2003 birthdays.

Interesting about siblings, I don’t get on with mine - My Mum played us off against each other. Similar gap between my two, very different relationship between them compared to my and my sibling.

My Dad just come back from hotel in SW with very heavy cold - ‘It’s just a cold, I know one when I have one ‘. Had to ring off as he was coughing so much, went Friday and started Tuesday. He called back and has decided to test after all.

My 3 ds's don't really get on. Now ages 20, 17 and 12. But the worst 2 are the 12 and 20 year old. The youngest hates his oldest brother. I find it very sad. Dh has 2 sisters, they live in Australia, he will never speak to them again. He always says Australia isn't far enough away. They fell out over inheritance when their parents passed away. But the oldest he never did get on with. I am an only child. I have always wondered what it would be like to have a sibling.

@icanbewhatiwant it's tough isn't it? DH doesn't get on with his brother, and my brother openly can't stand me. I think it's because he always felt I was the favoured one which is absolutely not true.
My two are three years apart and fight so much. I find it so hard as I would love them to have a close relationship.

Luckily there are some good stories as well. DH & siblings are very close and I love us all getting together. They’re also all very funny and bounce of each other with their wacky humour. Thankfully, this is what ds1 & 2 have grown up seeing.

@NCTDN yes it is hard. I'd like them to just be nice to each other. They seem to enjoy the bickering. DH has 2 dc's from his first marriage. They get on well, brother and sister so maybe that is why they get on. Mine are all boys.

Sorry to hear that @Alsoplayspiccolo. I am glad you stood up for yourself.

My DDs are three years apart too. I never considered they might not get on. I always envied people who had siblings but I guess the grass isn’t always greener.

DH and I are both one of five! We have lots of fun getting together with siblings. Big families also create lots of drama though too and there’s a fair amount of sibling rivalry. Two is much simpler! With five kids there are 10 separate relationships going on whereas there’s only one when you have 2 kids! My two generally get on but they’re girl and boy, and the older one is more dominant/bossy and number 2 more laid back.

Two of my siblings are 11 months apart and in the same school year (sept and aug), which did neither of them any favours. The younger one was more successful at school and was mercilessly punished for it by the elder. They are both 60 at the moment (one about to be 61) and both still dealing with it, I would say.

My DC are 2.5 yrs apart (I'm another whose plans for a small gap were scuppered by a miscarriage) and don't get on very well unfortunately, having been very close when they were little. I am trying to improve things by getting us to have more fun times together as a family. Been to the beach today and games night tomorrow 😬

DS’s PCR is positive. He’s also found out two friends in his group at Reading are also positive I’m not sure if the other three have tested. He also got a call from NHS today as a contact of someone with COVID! He started to tell me that DS had to isolate and I had to stop him and tell him he was already isolating as he had it himself.

All of those with cold symptoms please keep testing, DS had a cold all week before getting a positive test.

@Piggywaspushed and @Alsoplayspiccolo and others who had a tough time with siblings I’m so sorry to hear about that. Families are hard to deal with sometimes. I am one of 6 - mum had us all within 9 years- and so it definitely wasn’t easy growing up, there was lots of fighting for sure but I didn’t feel particularly bullied or in rivalry thankfully. There are a couple I don’t really speak to anymore for things that happened as an adult but I am fairly close to the others and particularly the sister who is 15 months older than me. My two are four years apart and I try to protect the younger one from his older brother who can be really quite mean to him sometimes. They are very different people and their differences can cause clashes.

Yeah just , I just told one of my friends to get a PCR for her DD who has come back from Reading with a cold.... she has done some LFTs, but they just aren't good enough!

I am totally over my issues with my sister. She had terrible (and massively ill founded) jealousy of me but seems now very happy and to all intents and purposes leads a fuller life than I do. Lots of issues with gender identity, sexuality and food/exercise when younger probably accounted for it. My DM and DF, however, could happily make it over to the Stately Homes thread!!

With DS’s LFT it actually took a while to show up, more than half an hour and was there but fairly faint. I only saw it because I didn’t throw it away. I saw it more than an hour later when I went to bin it!

I’m glad things are more settled now with your sister Piggy, isn’t there a poem about parents and what they do to us….. 💐

Dd has had 2 lft go positive after 30 mins but tested negative on 2 pcrs. I throw them away after 30 mins now.
All the festival lot tested negative on lft on the first day of school. Dd went into school at 10.30 and got the ‘you’re negative’ email at 11.00. I am hoping the last two sentences don’t lead to problems next week!

Just heard that one of DS's schoolmates had died. An absolutely brilliant mathematician. No idea what but suicide is hinted at in the letter. The head wrote a beautiful tribute to him.

That is so sad to read Piggy

It's dreadfully sad.

God, that’s devastating, Piggy.
You can only imagine what his parents are going through. 🥺

That’s dreadfully sad @Piggywaspushed

Oh no @Piggywaspushed. That's awful.

So sorry to hear that Piggywaspushed, what a terrible loss.

It's a trigger point , isn't it? Beginning of school years? How very bleak.

Piggy your poor Ds and his friends. Death from suicide is a bereavement like no other.
And so young.

Two things people said to me when my relative died that helped:
‘Their pain didn’t go away they just passed it on to everyone around them’.This helped with my anger. And that ‘don’t let it ruin your life - live yours the best you can’. Having said this, my bereavement wasn’t for someone younger.
The Samaritans have some good resources.
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It's an awful thing to think of a young person in such a pit of despair. I may be wrong that he took his own life, but the letter is quite encoded and I think if it had been eg a car accident, it would have said.

They would have got advice. They will be being very careful.