After nearly 2 years of Covid and all the associated lockdowns and drama we finally have a Covid case at home. DS2 has been suffering...dying!...with a minor cold for a few days and then on Friday decided to take a test...mostly because he was bored. He tested positive...poor kid is panicking, he has seen all the horror stories the media has been putting out to make the pandemic as dramatic as possible. He believes them all and is convinced he is desperately ill. Fortunately he has 3 vaccines and is not poorly really...he has a cold and is feeling a bit grim, but hardly dying. He doesn't even have a temperature!
No one else has tested positive yet, though I do have a cold...time will tell. Lateral flow tests can only be ordered every 3 days now rather than every 24 hours but I have got DD and DS1 ordering packs so we won't run out. Free tests are being phased out on the grounds that the pandemic is virtually over in Britain... I do kind of agree but it's still annoying that the tests are harder to get the only time we've needed lots. Mostly it's just been DS1 taking regular tests for work and DS2 taking a test whenever he gets panicky.
All of this seems very minor stuff with the stuff in the news about Russia invading Ukraine...WW3 could be on the horizon. I have no doubt that somewhere in Whitehall there is a group of civil servants trying to update the 'Protect and Survive' leaflets we all got sent in the 1980's. Predictably its all adding to DD's anxiety...poor kid is really not at all well at the moment. The stress is not doing good things to her.
I spoke to DF on the phone expecting he would have been following the news...he used to be very aware of what was happening and stay informed about the world. His world is shrinking and all he could talk about was money and not being able to plan a walk with his sister because her house had suffered some flooding. It's not a good sign when someone's world gets so small and self absorbed...it happened with DM and it's now happened with DF... so I can now look forward to him having health dramas... hope he gets some support sorted 'cause I'm not in a position to do anything, even if I wanted to!
Update: in spite of negative lateral flow tests for both DS1 and I we both tested positive for Covid with a PCR test as did DP. DD got a PCR test in the post and I imagine she will also test positive. I have to say Covid sucks... it's absolutely exhausting and just makes you feel like the world's shittiest cold. If this is it with 3 vaccines I'm not surprised so many died in the first wave with no treatment and a stronger version! Obviously DP is the most ill...well he thinks he is and he certainly does f*ck all in the way of sorting stuff at home...like ordering food, doing laundry, feeding cats, feeding people...you know the stuff that needs doing to keep us all alive and functional!
After a 3-4 days of feeling shitty I'm not too bad...but struggled to rest no matter how crap I felt...yes I am being pathetic a whingy, but it's the payback for being a mum.
DF has phoned a couple of times...one time he spoke to DP who apparently told him how poorly he (DP) was...never mind I was in bed and everyone else was also ill!! The man is a self absorbed wanker... DF is pretty self absorbed too and his conversation when I spoke to him was about his walks and stuff.
