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Post by refugeepea on Sept 4, 2023 22:36:17 GMT
It has not changed besides wearing masks a lot less now.
ETA: I realized I have a low intolerance for whiners who complained about "the HARD" things. I also realized I should work on my empathy skills.
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Post by scrapmaven on Sept 4, 2023 23:22:06 GMT
I was just diagnosed w/covid yesterday. So, for me it's just covid and it sucks!
Zee I remember that you posted about possibly going to NYC to help w/the hardest hit areas. That was the post that made me realize how much I liked you and how much respect I had for you. You are a nurse who does her job for all of the good reasons and you aren't afraid to put yourself in harm's way if it means helping others. Why aren't you ever my nurse when I'm incarcerated? No fair!
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Post by Zee on Sept 4, 2023 23:52:51 GMT
I was just diagnosed w/covid yesterday. So, for me it's just covid and it sucks!
Zee I remember that you posted about possibly going to NYC to help w/the hardest hit areas. That was the post that made me realize how much I liked you and how much respect I had for you. You are a nurse who does her job for all of the good reasons and you aren't afraid to put yourself in harm's way if it means helping others. Why aren't you ever my nurse when I'm incarcerated? No fair! Awww thank you so much. I never did because the logistics didn't really work out and in any case, Georgia was hit hard soon enough. But I'm certainly not saintly, I just really wanted to be in there learning and doing. In the early days our unit shut down and we were sent to help in the ICUs which were full to the rafters with Covid. I did pretty much everything I was qualified to do (certain meds and equipment is only for ICU nurses so I wasn't doing that stuff) and it was hard work but I would have felt so left out without that experience. I just really like patient care most of the time. Of course you have those nights with difficult unhappy people that can make it hard but I'm sure you're one that everyone is happy to see--not for you having to be there of course, but because you sound like such a kind and caring person who I'd want to make as happy as possible while you're there. ❤️❤️❤️
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Post by scrapmaven on Sept 4, 2023 23:57:16 GMT
I was just diagnosed w/covid yesterday. So, for me it's just covid and it sucks!
Zee I remember that you posted about possibly going to NYC to help w/the hardest hit areas. That was the post that made me realize how much I liked you and how much respect I had for you. You are a nurse who does her job for all of the good reasons and you aren't afraid to put yourself in harm's way if it means helping others. Why aren't you ever my nurse when I'm incarcerated? No fair! Awww thank you so much. I never did because the logistics didn't really work out and in any case, Georgia was hit hard soon enough. But I'm certainly not saintly, I just really wanted to be in there learning and doing. In the early days our unit shut down and we were sent to help in the ICUs which were full to the rafters with Covid. I did pretty much everything I was qualified to do (certain meds and equipment is only for ICU nurses so I wasn't doing that stuff) and it was hard work but I would have felt so left out without that experience. I just really like patient care most of the time. Of course you have those nights with difficult unhappy people that can make it hard but I'm sure you're one that everyone is happy to see--not for you having to be there of course, but because you sound like such a kind and caring person who I'd want to make as happy as possible while you're there. ❤️❤️❤️ Awww. Thank you so much. I try to be the easy patient and support my nurses, but I know that w/o my nurses I wouldn't be here right now typing this post.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Sept 5, 2023 0:49:06 GMT
I think of things that way as well. Maybe not in the same way as having a different life, but I can remember if I bought something pre or post Covid. Or which sports season was what year based on Covid restrictions. That kind of thing.
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Post by melanieg on Sept 5, 2023 1:20:05 GMT
I refer to it less as pre-Covid and more like before the world changed. I just don't feel comfortable in my existence the way I used to, but I think that started a year or two before Covid. To me the world has gotten meaner and most people don't get joy or pleasure out of anything. I hate to be a Pessimistic Patty but to me the world is so different and Covid made it 1000x worse. Most of this. Especially not feeling like myself and how the world is worse. The entitlement is real and I hate how people are acting. I work in travel so everything is pre-covid and now.
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Post by callmenutz on Sept 5, 2023 4:21:55 GMT
I think of Covid as the beginning of my husband’s decline. March 2020, Covid.
June 2021 he had two Grand Mal seizures and suffered a concussion in the ensuing fall. He was so bad that I was the first person allowed to spend the night in the hospital since Covid began. I took him home rather than go to rehab (his doctors and nurses agreed with me that this was best) and he was like a two year old.
June 2022 he was doing a simple outside job and when he stood up one leg broke and he sprained the other.
October 2022 he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. I didn’t get out of the house much at all.
Since that time I have been getting our affairs in order, etc. Luckily I can now get out in the mornings while he sleeps because he’s still doing pretty good. Trouble is after not going out much for a long time I get so hyped up the night before that I can’t sleep. I happened to mention this weird thing to my doctor and he said that they have seen it a lot since Covid what with people not going anywhere. I started on an antidepressant and it seems to be helping, thank goodness!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Sept 5, 2023 9:02:07 GMT
callmenutz sorry you are having a long journey. HUGS!!!
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Post by mammajamma on Sept 5, 2023 9:59:42 GMT
I definitely think of pre-COVID, COVID era, and then there is post-COVID that is harder to define for me. In my life, I also have pre-cancer, which is before December 2016. My kids were almost 9 and 4 1/2 when COVID hit. It felt like I had just begun to figure out my post-cancer life and have a some time without constant medical stuff on my mind. So we were very cautious. My kids were actually the perfect age in some ways to go through that. I was able to find community with some like-minded people for the first year…until everyone got off the COVID-cautious-train at different times. We had close family friends, with kids the same age as mine that the friendship imploded. I have spent too much brain power trying to figure it out. More recently, I have realized it wasn’t COVID that was the cause of the break-up, but a lack of respect for our boundaries on numerous fronts. COVID just exposed it. Nonetheless, it’s been close to two years and that is still a painful loss for my kids and for that, it hurts me still.
I did not re-enroll my kids in private school fall 2020 due to our family’s COVID approach. I homeschooled both of them the 2020-2021 school year. 2021-2022 my son returned to his Montessori school, and they required masks by everyone until spring break 2022. My daughter (now 7th grade) is still technically homeschooled today. But she attends classes in person at a program 3 days a week with other homeschoolers. COVID pushed me into homeschool. Something I never imagined. Yet it has worked beautifully. We have shared some wonderful family time and flexibility in learning. My son is back at his private school. He has a different temperament, age, and need. I wish both kids could have the same schedule that would allow for more trips. But, I’m still thankful for this arrangement. My kids are happy, without drama- I feel it works well, until I second guess by hearing and seeing some what the main stream are doing.
COVID also completely confused me about church and how I thought the groups of pro-life Christians would behave to their neighbors and community. Something I can’t seem to “get over.” I’m not mad at God. I have a very hard time finding my church community now.
Cancer made me have a different outlook about life than my peers first. But COVID has solidified my “uniqueness.” We do not fit any category of people and sometimes that leaves me feeling like we have many friendships, but no community. We were the last standing in the COVID-cautious circles I knew. We finally caved and let my kids go indoors without masks fall 2022. We only ate on restaurant patios until summer or fall 2022. We flew on airplanes with masks until this summer. I finally caught COVID for the first time last month. When I meet new people, I find myself wondering how they viewed COVID. When was their exit point? I feel a sense of weight and wonder how history will judge some of the decisions we made in our lifestyle. Was it too much? For too long? We largely took the off-the-beaten path approach and never got back on the main highway.
Wow. That was long but felt good to get that off my chest. Thank you
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Post by peasapie on Sept 5, 2023 11:26:32 GMT
I think of it as "before covid" and "since covid". My life and perspective has changed. "Life as I know it" can change in a second. I learned the words hardship, humble, grateful, thankful.....in ways and depths that I had never experienced before. I will never ever take anything for granted, ever again. My inner circle, out circle and extended circle.......have changed. I saw some kind and unexpected true colors. I saw some "don't care" true colors. The worst part for me was the financial hit. I learned that what I thought was *enough* saved....... needs to be quadrupled or more. My savings was supposed to be for the usual *emergency* type situations (car repair, sick and missed work supplement income, new microwave, new tire(s), shit happens, etc... and for living life (travel, splurges, bucket list things, etc...). Never in a million years did I ever expect my savings account to be for survival day to day and month to month. I worked so hard and made so much effort to build my savings, only to have it drained. That has been so hard emotionally and mentally. My foundation got shaken and got unsteady and wobbly. My inner strength got a bit lost for awhile. I am still in the rebuilding and work in progress phase. Thankful, grateful and humble.... for all that I have. I have more than some, and less than others. My heart is with you.
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Post by peasapie on Sept 5, 2023 11:34:48 GMT
My daughter is a nurse who worked in ICU and she has ongoing issues with PTSD. She watched so many people die in awful situations, and now whenever anything stressful happens n her life she flashes back to those days. She sends me photos now and then of the hallway at the hospital with all the machines and hoses they would use and explains that stress makes her see those images in her mind. There is not enough mental help for first responders like her, but I do my best to talk her through each time.
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Post by SweetieBsMom on Sept 5, 2023 11:43:25 GMT
I only think of pre-COVID. I don't think we're post-COVID yet. As someone said, it's still killing people and it's very much a danger to me b/c I have no immune system so I'm still on lock-down, still masked what few places I do go (typically doctor's appointments).
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Post by ellen on Sept 5, 2023 12:10:19 GMT
I remember being appalled at people who had normal weddings in the pre-vaccine days. A little over a week ago I attended a wedding that appears to have been a superspreader. There were 250 people attending and we know of 10 people who tested positive within the next few days. That is just amongst the people we know. Five of these people are teachers who sat with their entire staffs during workshops shortly before they showed symptoms. I was talking to an administrator and she said they are very concerned they’ll struggle to staff their buildings this month because of it.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Sept 5, 2023 12:52:27 GMT
The first lady Jill Biden tested positive yesterday.
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Post by mikklynn on Sept 5, 2023 12:57:31 GMT
I think of pre-Covid times and now. I was locked down to an extreme due to DH's cancer battle. I was trying to support my MIL with cancer at the same time. I did a lot of cooking for her and DH's brother. We literally only went to medical appointments and out for drives for over a year.
Covid showed me who cared about the greater good and who only cared they were inconvenienced. One of DH's brothers, who spouts off about what a great Christian he is, showed me he didn't care about anyone else. He was angry that I wouldn't let him visit DH, as he was unvaxed. He gave covid to his 6 very young grandchildren. So, I have lost relationships post Covid.
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Post by tuva42 on Sept 5, 2023 13:58:40 GMT
I own a small bricks and mortar business. There are definite pre-covid, during covid, sort of covid, and after covid periods for me. We are really just this summer getting back to pre-covid levels of business. We are a drop-in craft studio, so definitely not a necessity when people are struggling. We took a hit when we had to close, but we were able to do take-home kits. That helped a little, but not enough. When we could open back up, we took another hit when gas prices soared. Another hit when folks began to worry about a recession. The cost of our paint, brushes, and the wooden shapes have all gone way up. Even the cost of paper towels, so my prices have had to increase. That reduces the frequency that people can afford to visit us.
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Post by essiejean on Sept 5, 2023 15:17:13 GMT
Ours is more like "before the accident" and "after the accident" as we lost our future son in law 4 months into Covid - his death was not COVID related. So 2020-2022 was just a whirlwind of keeping my DD from losing herself in depression/grief. Luckily we were not impacted much by Covid (in SD not much was shut down or changed) and although a few family/friends did contract COVID none were serious or life threatening. 2023 has been our recovery year and we seem to be out of the grips of depression/grief and no long term issues because of COVID.
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Sept 5, 2023 19:01:28 GMT
I definitely mark time by Covid, but for me, it wasn't a pause or anything like that, and I'm not saying Covid no longer exists (my daughter's roommate has it now). Right at the beginning of Covid, I met my now-husband and started my current job, so the beginning of Covid coincides with life changing events of their own right.
When I talk about pre- and post-Covid, I'm just marking time or showing why something is different or surprising. "Oh, we can't go to that store at 9:00 pm because they have never returned to their pre-Covid hours." or "Can you believe Amazon is bringing us packages in 1-2 days?!? It is so nice to return to the pre-Covid delivery times!"
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