Re: Tuesday has arrived-change of plans
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Best of all to all of you, staying socially distanced and safe.? It is crazy here on the medical side of things.? Mostly acting as a big triage wall in the office - keeping kids out of here - and out of urgent care centers and the ER.? I have spent an enormous amount of time on the phone over the last 5 days.? I have also, however, let the Med Staff president?know that I actually have critical care training - albeit 20 years ago and w kids, but I still have skills..? In case they get short-handed...
Laura
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 1:17 PM Jenny Swanson < jenny@...> wrote: That’s lucky. Mum became very upset because she could not get English Mustard. And I have just mailed her a package? with oatcakes and mint humbugs which she could not find and seems to believe are essential to my dad’s survival. I felt like saying “if that’s the worst that happens to you in all this, it’s trivial so stop getting worked up about it”. Lovely neighbours including college kids home with nothing much to do have offered to do the shopping for them, but my Dad says “We’re quite capable of walking tt the supermarket and getting a bus back afterwards”. True. But not good from a survival point of view. He was all over London by bus only last Saturday and my mother went through two grocery stores and Marks and Spencer’s clothing department – we’ll see around Sunday how safe that was. ? Best of luck to everyone trying to manage similar situations….. ? Jenny ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jaya Srikrishnan
Sent: 17 March 2020 17:11
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Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] Tuesday has arrived-change of plans ? Fortunately my dad is on board now. He was running out for small things over the weekend and I told him to buy enough bread for a week and to stay home. I am sure he’ll be going to get bananas later this week, so will have to talk him out of that and buy for him. He thinks his health depends on a banana a day and gets upset when he doesn’t have any.? We are having to change his meds and do some other stuff for his heart based on a few findings over the winter so we’ll have to see how long he can stay away from the doctors.? ? It's really tough dealing with recalcitrant elderly parents (and clueless friends and acquaintances). You just have to keep chipping away with more information, maintain your own distance, and - in the case of parents - it might come to taking away the car keys... Here in the greater Bay Area, 6 counties are under a mandatory shelter-in-place order as of today, all nonessential businesses ordered closed and nonessential gatherings and travel forbidden. You are allowed to shop for necessities and to go outside to walk, hike, run and the like (while maintaining appropriate distance). It affects 6.7 million people. Not my county yet, guessing we'll be on board tomorrow. Daughter Emma and I just made the decision to all-but-quarantine ourselves from each other - that is, me and Eric from her and Hank. We're going to coordinate grocery shopping trips (as infrequent as possible) so one of us can stay outside with Hank so he doesn't need to go in any stores.? Wearing gloves to shop and pump gas. Having to think differently about all kinds of things... Next up: teach Eric to use WhatsApp so he can videochat with family and friends. Hang in there, all of you..
Thérèse Shere
Freelance indexing & digital information design
? ? On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:06 AM Jenny Swanson <jenny@...> wrote: My mother says “Boris can’t stop me going out”. I am trying to get her to understand the reasons why it would be good for her survival, even if not very exciting, to accept it. It’s not as though she ever went out much anyway, it’s just kick-back and a reluctance to accept the general awfulness of the situation. Of course protecting others and reducing spread in every possible way are the crucial things. With several health workers in the family, and also younger, at risk individuals, I can see just how important this is going to be. We need to keep the numbers as low as possible…….. ? The online workout is a good idea, it’s important to stay fit as possible while all this goes on around us.? ? Good to hear from you, Ann. ? Jenny ? ? This morning we participated in our first online workout. In our kitchen. When it was over, I sent an email to all the usual f2f participants (the ones I could) to tell them that this is available. We were originally planning to meet at the studio for a face to face class (soles of shoes sanitized to protect the health of the little tumblers who also use that floor ? ) but that was canceled as is the tumbling class. ? Our governor has asked all non-essential businesses (like gyms, spas, hair places, etc.) to close. State-run liquor stores are closed. Restaurants are drive through/delivery/pick-up only, no eat in. I cannot believe the selfishness of people who will insist on “life as usual” since it’s more about spreading the virus than it is about catching it. Yes, I’m overreacting, and if nothing happens, that was sort of the point, wasn’t it. Several local golf courses announced that they will NOT close. ? I am NOT sharing this with the group I initially intended. Since I started typing two of the members of that group have announced that they are getting their scheduled manicures today, because they want to. ? I am shaking my head in disbelief. Both of them are over retirement age. ? Ann in PA ?
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