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Thread 25 - Covid Cohort - Christmas Trees, No Omicron Please!

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OrangeCinnamonCocktail · 12/12/2021 17:15

This is a thread for supporting all young people post GCSEs 2020, regardless of their educational setting. It is respectfully requested that all are supportive and helpful to each other. If you want to start a debate, e.g state vs private, please don't within this thread. Please also be sensitive when responding to posts about grades.

Some of us have been here since first thread back in yr10, some will be new. Everyone has been friendly and helpful in the past. Everyone is welcome. It is hoped this goodwill continues.

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cariadambyth · 29/12/2021 11:11

So sorry to hear of positive tests and disrupted plans, it’s all feeling a bit tough at the moment isn’t it.
@Alsoplayspiccolo sorry you are still poorly, I can’t shake my cold off either, like you, one step forward two steps back. All LFTs and PCR are negative, but I still feel pretty rough.
Dd is back on the revision, mocks as soon as she goes back but she’s getting a bit low I feel, says she can’t remember anything this morning that she did yesterday and is already dreading going back in January. I think it’s all feeling very real and close now. It’s tough for them all isn’t it.

ExquisitelyDecorated · 29/12/2021 11:19

I've had a non-Covid cold since 13th Dec, I think I went a whole day without coughing yesterday for the first time. But I haven't actually felt ill at any point. I think it might have been two separate infections as I regressed a bit towards the end of last week. Before that I had another non-covid cold from 3rd Nov for about three weeks (I know the dates from my pcr results). So probably three colds more or less back to back.

Alsoplayspiccolo · 29/12/2021 11:21

Thanks, cariad, your description of 2 steps back is spot on. I've taken an LFT this morning, just in case, but it's negative. No new symptoms, just a resurgence of the original ones, plus crashing fatigue.

DD is having the same wobble about mocks. Hard to keep them going while the news is so gloomy and uncertain.

EwwSprouts · 29/12/2021 11:24

Sorry to learn so many are unwell or testing positive. Hopefully Omicron and colds will burn themselves out and we are heading for a much healthier spring. Interestingly my Canadian cousin says the message there now is don't bother with rapid tests as we're no longer counting them. She says they have no idea of the true number of cases.

EwwSprouts · 29/12/2021 11:26

Did anyone else watch the Christmas lecture by JVT last night? Good biology revision!

Monkey2001 · 29/12/2021 11:40

@EwwSprouts interesting about Canada. They were super strict, a friend's cousin's children seemed to have school on line for most of a year! But I thought the point of the LFTs was to help you manage risk particularly around more vulnerable people, rather than to count cases.

Alsoplayspiccolo · 29/12/2021 11:43

The back-to-back foods sound rough, Exquisitely. On the bright side, I've just read an article that says the common good boots out Covid, so that's something, at least.

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 29/12/2021 11:55

@EwwSprouts

Did anyone else watch the Christmas lecture by JVT last night? Good biology revision!
Ooh is this on catch up anywhere?
ExquisitelyDecorated · 29/12/2021 11:58

@EwwSprouts Yes, I work in a related field amd thought it was excellent. It was on bbc4, should be on iplayer.

icanbewhatiwant · 29/12/2021 12:10

@Decorhate if your income has changed you can fill out an estimated current year income form. Then you have to send the proof in later in the year. When ds1 applied dh had retired and sold the farm in the tax year student finance asked for. A lot of the money had gone into various other projects, investments etc. our actual income was a lot less. So we used the current tax year form. Then in the June of the following year we sent our proof in. Though it took them until October to actually process the proof. So Ds didn't get his 2nd year loan until late in the year. The long wait was due to lockdown. They didn't ask us for proof again, but I think if income changes significantly we have to tell them.

@Monkey2001 I ordered LFT's online. I had an email saying they will arrive within 3 days. I'll let you know if they do. We have a box each for Ds2 and ds3 from school. So they can still test a few times before returning to school. They are having a LFT in school on return too. It would be a good idea to get all school children to pcr before returning. But I know that won't happen.

I hope those feeling poorly get better soon. I daren't say it...I haven't had a cold for a few years. I've probably done it now by posting that...bound to get one now. I moved out the bedroom when dh had his cold a few weeks ago.

Shimy · 29/12/2021 12:14

@mummyinbeds Aaaarrgh! sorry to hear about DS and possibly you too.

Alsoplayspiccolo · 29/12/2021 12:20

common cold

icanbewhatiwant · 29/12/2021 12:52

@Monkey2001 I ordered LFT's Christmas Eve. I didn't expect them to come in today's post as it's the first post since then. They did come today.

Decorhate · 29/12/2021 13:33

Thanks @icanbewhatiwant

EwwSprouts · 29/12/2021 13:35

@JustHereWithMyPopcorn Second part tonight BBC4

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 29/12/2021 13:47

Many thanks @EwwSprouts Smile

Alsoplayspiccolo · 29/12/2021 14:49

Well, after testing negative (I thought) this morning, when I went to throw the LFT away, there was a faint second line, so I took another one and it came up positive straight away. Sad

At least I know why I’m feeling so rubbish. Just called DH to tell him and he said he’s started to feel duff now too.
So, isolation birthday for me on the 2nd too.

cariadambyth · 29/12/2021 15:04

Oh no, how disappointing although I suppose it explains why you’re feeling so rotten @Alsoplayspiccolo. I do hope you feel better soon. My family laugh at me but I always keep my test for an hour just in case it turns positive! I agree with you that revision for these mocks is hard, they could mean everything, or very little, we just don’t know. I’m hoping there’ll be some clarity from the powers that be soon.

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 29/12/2021 15:10

Oh no @Alsoplayspiccolo how rubbish! Feel well soon and make sure you celebrate when you are well.

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 29/12/2021 15:12

DS has been doing quite a lot f note making for revision but I really don't know how helpful it is. He plans on going out on NYE and I suspect he's hoping he gets Covid again so he doesn't have to sit his mocks straight away in Jan. Hmm

icanbewhatiwant · 29/12/2021 15:13

I did a LFT a couple of days ago, as ds3 had mates round to play monopoly. I asked them to test before coming, thought it only fair that I test too as I was making them lunch. I left my negative test on the side. I was just about to go to work and thought I'd throw it out. There was a massive fat pinky coloured second line. I thought it was a strange line, really fat, then realised the white plastic edges of the test were pink too. I looked at DH who was trying to hide his laugh. He'd drawn across it with a pink sharpie. Not funny really. But he thought it was. That's the sort of thing Ds2 would do.

crazycrofter · 29/12/2021 15:13

I'm so sorry to hear about all the colds and covid, and the isolation birthdays, it's all a bit rubbish isn't it. We were relieved to have a normal Christmas this year after spending the whole 2 week holiday last year ill with covid, so I really feel for you all.

Dd has had loads of shifts from Sainsbury's over the holidays - she did 46 hours between the last Friday of term and Christmas Eve and has 8 hours today and 5 tomorrow. I'm so thankful she isn't going back to mocks! She's not had time to look at her History coursework as it is.

Wheresthebeach · 29/12/2021 17:41

Sorry to read about the illnesses. We had to rearrange everything with older Step Kids due to Covid.

I'm now 'making nice' on video calls with my brother - despite their behaviour over my fathers will. Suffice to say I never saw the information they legally should have sent over, the money wasn't ahem..what was expected, and I stupidly signed over being an executor to make their lives easier (my family is in Canada so executors in different countries - they said - would be difficult). My father warned me not to trust them, that my brother would do whatever my sister in law said and I thought he was being mean. Wish I'd listened to him! Its really sad as my brother and I were always close, but SIL always had an issue with our closeness. I really make the effort for DD's sake.

mummyinbeds · 29/12/2021 18:01

Oh no @Alsoplayspiccolo sorry you've got a rubbish birthday coming up too.

DH, DD and I have all tested negative again and DS still has no symptoms. I've got him a PCR test for tomorrow which he can drive himself to so I won't need to go near him.

I've got him pizza and beer (Corona of course 🤣) ready for his birthday and he's happy gaming in his room without me going in to nag about A levels.

Monkey2001 · 30/12/2021 10:02

Sorry to hear there are more people testing positive. At least @Alsoplayspiccolo your DH might be able to get it out of the way at home and not get stranded anywhere isolating. There seems to be a general view going round that we are all going to get it anyway, so maybe it should be like chicken pox - we try to get it at a time which suits us!

I have discovered that Bristol City Council has a Covid test van which will be in the carpark of the Aldi I use this morning, so I am off foraging!