I’m terribly sorry. COVID can be devastating to a lot of people and their families. I sure hope your mom fully recovers, even if it takes a while. We’ll be thinking of you.
I am so sorry for you and totally understand. My mother was quite the social butterfly before everything went to shit and I can hear the denigration in her cognitive abilities day by day now. I know its the lack of social interaction and do my best to help keep her stimulated but it’s hard to do when she’s in a different state.
Yes, sympathies or course. It’s got to be rough.
Covid is a part of the planet, and all of us now. FUCK the people that are denying that it it exist or is a problem. Those are the people that our ire needs to be directed to. Not covid.
I’m so sorry, @puzzlegal
I am sorry. Fuck covid, indeed.
Damn, so sorry to read about @puzzlegal and everyone else in this thread who lost loved ones. Fuck covid.
Sorry about your ma, @puzzlegal . The little bastard is capable of sneaking past the blood/brain barrier and wreaking all sorts of havoc in there like encephalitis and stuff.
This. It’s a crowded planet and disease is gonna happen. But I will not use kind and forgiving language for the animals who refuse to take the little precautions to minimize the impact of this one. They are selfish, freeloading predators deserving of being cast out from the society they leech off of. Fuck 'em all right in their tiny little hearts.
I’m a senior who is diabetic and overweight. I’ve had quadruple bypass surgery and have kidney disease. I’m also a former smoker.
If I get this fucking virus, even a mild strain, I’m a dead man. It’s already wiped out what was left of my parents’ generation.
I’m very scared and very angry.
Oh, my God, you’ve lost THREE people you love?! I’m so, so sorry! This is truly horrible!
Update:
We put her in home hospice care last night. I think the covid is pretty much past. She had a “mild” case. But it triggered her myasthenia gravis, and that’s why she can’t walk, or talk, or hold a spoon, or roll over by herself. It’s also why she can’t keep her lungs clear, and her oxygen got really low over the weekend.
I believe she also had some direct brain damage from the covid, but it’s honestly hard to tell, since she’s trapped in her body, without being able to move much. But, she can still blink and move her arms a bit, and when we ask her to blink if she’s thirsty, she doesn’t, but she does suck eagerly on a straw if we put it in her mouth. So I think she doesn’t understand a lot of words any more.
She told us it was a mistake to treat her bleeding ulcer last summer – a condition that can be treated much less invasively than myasthenia, and with much better odds of a successful outcome. And she’s always been adamant that she cares more about quality of life than quantity, and wants us to help her avoid suffering more than to extend her life. So at least her wishes are clear.
DO let your loved ones know how you want to be cared for if something horrible happens. It’s a lot easier knowing her wishes.
Fuck Covid
I saw your announcement in the other thread. Fuck COVID, and my condolences on the death of your mother. Sending my best wishes. I’m so sorry.
Very much this today. I did an online Shiva this afternoon, and we’re doing a zoom memorial service later this evening. And … There’s almost no food in the house, and the only people i can hug are my husband and daughter, because she was still infectious the day she died, and so we are quarantining.
Fuck COVID
May your mother’s name be for a blessing. I’m sorry I can’t bring you food.
May you receive comfort from heaven. {{{@puzzlegal }}}
I am so very sorry for your loss…