Countrymouse Posted November 2018
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Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
I don't blame you! Have to agree with you about the news reporters!
I can tell by my mood whether I've been exposed to too much of it. Even the "delightful" reports of how parents are entertaining their kids and so on get on my nerves now.
Also today a very generous large produce company here gave the police dept 60 boxes of produce today. My husband brought home a box that had multiple lettuce variations, celery, Brussel sprouts, cauliflower, radishes, green onion, red onion, cilantro and broccolini. We gave half to the next door neighbors because it was way too much for us! What a nice gesture! But go figure...I went out for lightbulbs and salad kits this afternoon and then my husband comes home with a box of salad fixings! Could have just stayed home and sent him to ACE for the lightbulbs if I had known LOL!
What a wonderful surprise! Fresh veggies are so yummy. Enjoy!
Thank a trucker - great, but for most of them it's business as usual and at least they HAVE a job, and I can't imagine anyone safer than a person sitting by themselves in a big rig.
Thank a doctor/nurse/first responder - absolutely thanking those in urban centres and working in high risk areas, but my local 19 bed hospital got parade of fire trucks and ambulances and we have only had ONE person pass through with CV 2 weeks ago. Yes it must be a pain to work with all the new restrictions but for the most part the hospital and medical centres have cancelled everything else, it's like a ghost town around there.
You know who isn't getting a shout out? Staff at retirement and nursing homes - it's got to be h3ll working in any them let alone the ones that have CV.
I have a friend and a family member driving big rigs. Although they are relatively safe in their trucks, they still have to stop for fuel, sometimes in areas of active CV community spread. With restaurants closing or moving to only drive thru service, truckers are having problems getting a meal on the road because big rigs and people are not allowed at many drive thru windows. Some showers at truck stops have been closed too and motels just don't feel safe anymore. And when they come home, they must worry about the possibility of bringing CV back to their families. My friend is staying in his RV and hasn't touched a family member in weeks. My family member is older with no kids at home and his wife has decided to accept the risk so he actually gets to sleep in his own bed when he's home on turnover; he recently worked 27 straight days.
We have 4 health care workers who were infected at one of our smaller community hospitals (the one patient and the 4 health care workers the only confirmed infections in that county); the 48 year old doctor is now in ICU on a vent fighting for his life. Our health care system has laid off 1300+ workers (with continued health care and medication coverage) in admin, general care, and elective surgery departments and temporarily closed 6 urgent care centers; the system is projecting to lose $155 million dollars in just 90 days. That doesn't even count the nurses and techs furloughed from doctors' offices.
My brother (66 and taking an ACE for high blood pressure ) is an essential worker with reduced hours. Because he is working with 180+ people from 4 counties, he cannot visit my home beyond leaving groceries on my porch. He's out there taking a risk each time he fuels his car and enters that factory complex. He works with some younger yahoos who think social distancing is a joke, so his risk might be higher than LTC care givers.
The essential care givers in our LTC facilities are having a very difficult time. One facility I know about has increased the shift hours from 8 to 10, using the overlap to help replace volunteers at morning and evening meals. Four facilities in my area have announced they will be engaging some of the staff laid off from the mainline health care system, after they complete isolation and testing. These workers are at reduced risk of being infected because of the no visitation rules but the increased workload is almost unbearable. No LTC facility in our area has been infected yet and we seem to have enough testing available to keep the risk low, but we know from the outbreak in the facility near Nashville that once CV gets a foot in the door of a LTC facility, many of the residents and the staff will be infected and several will die.
Today, I got a delivery order from my local Walmart. Whether pickup or delivery, the people bringing those groceries to our homes or cars are taking some risk too. The essential people who are stocking shelves or preparing food and running checkouts are taking a risk so the rest of us can have food (and sometimes toilet paper).
Our first responders are out there still coming in contact with people who are respecting social distancing and with the people who do not. Perhaps they are coming in more contact with the people who are not observing social distancing. When subduing someone or pulling them out of a wreck, all the safety guidelines cannot always be followed.
I know this is a trying time for everyone and things do get on our nerves _but_ I think we really do need to thank our essential workers. All of them are taking an increased risk both for themselves and their families. The rest of us just couldn't cope very well without them.
BTW I've got some truckers in my family too (cousins).
I get it too. Everyone is important.
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Possible treats you can enjoy for your birthday:
Take a long relaxing bubble bath.
Take a nap
Eat your favorite dessert
No cooking for the day
Order take-out or delivery of your favorite food
No chores for the day
Binge watch your favorite shows
Put on your favorite music
Give yourself a mini facial spa
Put on your favorite body lotion
Pamper yourself any other way you can think of
Happy Birthday again.
Hugs back!!💜💕😉
Our bloody manager is pregnant so she's not allowed out of her house. It means she has eight uninterrupted hours a day to worry about us and dream up supportive ideas such as - you won't believe me - calling *every* *one* of us during our rounds to spring a quiz on PPE on us. You're standing there waiting for your client to finish her meds. Your phone goes off. You curse under your breath, fish around under your flimsy plastic apron, wrestle your phone out of your tunic pocket - discreetly excusing yourself the while - scoot outside the room, and "Have you got a few minutes?" pipes up a cheery little voice.
Not really. Especially not now that I have to remove my gloves, wash my hands, dry my hands, put on new gloves, dispose of the old gloves in an approved container separated for 72 hours from household waste and stored in a secure area, and get back to my client who I hope has not choked on her 14-strong px...
I think Dominos Pizza are still delivering, so perhaps there's someone near you who would. Might go nicely with the movie. *Maybe* they'll even pop some candles on one for you..?
Thank you NHWM.
There is a new "Sendhelp", who's screename is Sendhelp82.
I do not know why anyone would want the same screename as me, it has such a reputation! Lol.
Should I change mine? It appears the new poster is older than me (82), and I have been taught to defer to my elders.
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