As I know we all agree, the terrible people periods of time when we couldn’t see our Dear Ones were awful for all parties concerned.
The combination time frames of my LO’s Covid infections, a case of c.Diff and finally my own bout of Covid all served to make for long painful gaps in contact and MANY CONCERNS over whether we find that she’d lost ground cognitively (which we were resigned to being inevitable), or whether she’d be depleted, thinner, less connected………?
By the Grace of God, the answer to our unspoken questions was NONE OF THE ABOVE.
She is feisty, inquisitive, reasonably well focused, plump, with it….in short every prayer answered.
I was thinking on my way home from this morning’s visit how fervently I hoped that many of you would have found similar situations in your first visits after the lockdown was lifted (very recently here).
I did lose people very dear to me during the worst of it, but how blessed I feel to be able to say “So Long, Kiddo, I’ll see you in a day or two!”
Hoping many of you are still able to do the same.
She's vaccinated, her beloved BINGO has been reinstated once a week and she goes. And that's the ONLY place she goes. Literally, nowhere else. She got very anxious during COVID, I don't know why, I've never seen anyone so protected from it---and it's taking some time for the anxiety to cease.
ALL my grandkids and their parents had it, so we got to hang out with them. DH traveled quite a bit, as he was going crazy from working from home. I was barely out of chemotherapy and for a few months I was a little anxious, but still had my absolutely normal life.
It was a learning experience, for sure. But I remember polio--so maybe being a bit older helped me have the perspective that this would pass.
The ONLY place I go that requires a mask is my drs offices and then once I am in the exam room, masks can come off. That's nice.
Now I have to figure out how to deal with the mask-acne.
I feel the Lockdowns were unnecessary and did a lot of damage to our Loved Ones.