About to pick up DS from Oxford tomorrow. Was getting worried about having to use public transport but a friend has kindly agreed to drive me. My concerns are that I have asthma (and the end of a chest infection which I'm pretty sure pre-dates possibility of it being corona virus) and DH, as long-time readers of these threads may remember, is under investigation for a brain lesion. I hesitated to ask this friend, as I am a nervous passenger and I find her driving a bit hair-raising, but my anxieties about the risks of infection outweigh that (I will be paying her for missed work and petrol).
Like other DC, DS is fairly oblivious to the virus issue, despite there now being two cases at Oxford. I'll be really relieved to have him home. He's had a good term and seems really settled with a strong circle of friends, mostly outside his college, from various societies. He is balancing work and leisure pretty well and has had some good feedback on his work. He has a mentor he sees weekly for advice about managing the dyspraxia and is taking her advice (interestingly, much of it the same advice I've been giving him, which he ignored!).
(For those interested in the DH situation, since I haven't been on-thread for a while: the lesion was first found in August. They still don't know what it is, but he is still under the lymphoma team as he had that two years ago. We got the results of his third scan last week. The original area which was shrunk by steroids has not come back. The suspicious 'wispy' area from scan two has gone. There is a new suspicious area - in a completely different place - too deep to biopsy. Has none of the inflammation they would expect from cancer. No idea what it is. Watching and waiting. New scan in two months. He feels completely fine with no symptoms. My main concern at the moment is that they will decide to start treatment - and therefore lower his immune response - in the middle of the virus outbreak.)