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Isolation: How Do We Handle it?
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Jul 6, 2020 | Replies (302)Comment receiving replies
@feisty76 I am not happy in isolation, but wonder too what NEW normal will be like. I have chronic lung issues and a husband with the same, plus diabetes - and while we consider ourselves young, we fall into the risky years. I belong to a number of volunteer organizations, and usually spend many hours a week out in the community - but I don't foresee that happening this summer - and maybe not for a year or more. So as we ponder our future activities, I am obliged to tell people that I will not be part of any large group gatherings, or face to face interactions with the general public, until there is a vaccine. It actually makes me cry as I write that - but there it is - I need to survive to see my grandchildren grow up.
In the meantime, I try to stay busy in my "cocoon" - for now my small community, in a few weeks my up north home and garden, and hope it will be safe to hug my family soon.
Sue
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@sue, We share the "volunteering bug" in common and, like you, and it has been painful to suspend those inperson activities. However, my continued zest for life in general has me curtailing future commitments in the hope that I can spend more quality years with my little family. Like your idea of a cocoon. No sharp edges, soft and comfy and hopefully we'll emerge able to fly rather than crawl going forward.
I normally volunteer two different mornings a week at my local animal shelter and wildlife rehab center. Right now no volunteers have been allowed there since mix March. No idea when that will happen. I really miss helping out and now it’s baby season for wildlife also...sad.
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Nancy/Shortshot... I am 97 yearsold. I grand you that isolation is not fun, but i go busy and dwrote a book which was to be a woman commercial fishing with her husband, then my husband of 67 years died and my friend told me I needed closure for my husband, will maybe I need to have a beginning for him. So this book is complete autobiography for my family. I is now being printed on Amazon. It is called "Shortshot. Has a picture of our boat. I am glad I had the time... Nancy