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COVID-19 and Transplant Patients
Transplants | Last Active: Mar 6, 2021 | Replies (459)Comment receiving replies
During this period of stay at home isolation, healthy at home, safe social distancing - whatever the terminology - I have learned a lot from what everyone who has shared here. I want to say "Thank You" to each and everyone who has participated in this discussion.
At this particular time, just when I was getting comfortable with all of the restrictions and limitations, I feel new anxiety and concern because of the push to 'Return to normal'. I expect that we can look forward to some advise from our transplant specialists as we move forward to the 'new normal'.
In the meantime -
How are you getting along so far? What are your plans for protection as your locale begins to ease the local restrictions?
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@rosemarya My state has a partial reopening on May 11, but overall not until the end of the month. I intend to change nothing. I have a doctor's appointment scheduled this month but intend to cancel it, it's just a check-up but really not something that can be via phone or video. My hair will have to suffer for a while longer. Beauty salons are being allowed to reopen but I do not intend to go for a while. My son and his wife are trying to figure out how they will visit this summer but I just do not see that happening even though they plan to drive. They would need to self-isolate for two weeks after arriving and there would go their vacation.
The thing I want most is to be able to do my own grocery shopping! We are using Instacart and Whole Foods delivery but it's just not the same as being able to choose your own produce and meat/fish.
@sueinmn Glad you have made it home, and in pretty good time too. By the time this is over I may have long, grey hair.
@gingerw Of course driving that distance will require staying overnight along the way I presume unless you and your husband are like my husband. We used to drive to visit our daughter in college in VA without staying anywhere but that was only about 550 miles.
Fortunately, around here most people are taking this very seriously, as are our relatives and friends.
JK
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@rosemarya I am not a transplant patient but was my husband's caregiver when he had a kidney transplant, and I am also a kidney patient. The proposed reopening of different states, at different phases and speeds, has me concerned. We are both immunosuppressed. Not a good thing. He faces the possibility of travel for business from our retirement home, which is our only home, back to his job where he retires after 40 years there. I posed that he suggests a rental car to drive down the 800 miles each way rather than airplane trip. It remains to be seen how soon after his retirement next week they will need him to come back to work on design projects. We are seeing already a lessening of the face mask wearing, fewer people honoring social distancing and increased populations in stores and just around town in general. We can still isolate pretty good, and have no problem doing that. The cavalier attitude of many that are tired of being cooped up, or being told what to do, is frustrating to those of us who have to watch our health so close. I believe what used to be normal, will not be again.
Ginger