I'm high-risk with asthma. How to stay safe with viruses?

@fair2all, Hi Jack. You and your family certainly were well prepared and wise to go into quarantine early before it was mandated, especially in New York. Do you live in an urban center or rural?

I can certainly understand your concern about planning for "an exit." and you are well advised to consider that ahead of time in as far as that is possible. Is your son seen locally for his medical needs and coordinated with his team at Mayo Clinic. Do you still go to Mayo for followup visits? I ask because I'm curious to know how that may look for your son in the near term and how telemedicine might now play a role in his care.

What we are concerned about is the plans for exit, in what seems to us in our case probably at some point within the next 2 years!

Our 44 year old Son that lives with us, has a whole long list of Chronic Health issues, and if there was a list of High Risk people to the Covid-19, he would probably be somewhere on top of the list. He was born with a serious Congenital Heart problem, and throughout his life the Mayo Clinic Doctors and Staff, performed 7 open Heart procedures, managed his eventual acquired Ventricular Tachycardia successfully through a series of Ablations, and partially recovered from 3 strokes that caused some Neurological difficulties.

Thanks to the dedicated and compassionate care he receives at the Clinic for the last 44 years, he is stable and enjoys his life the best he can.
Knowing his vulnerability we voluntary Quarantined ourselves at home with our Son 2 months ago. In addition to our son of course, my wife and I never live the house, we let no one in, and are very careful and cautious, knowing that his chances from recovery from being exposed to the Virus are almost none.
In addition to that, we live in "New York", which is not exactly the open spaces of other communities.

We are comfortable, and all 3 of us are in high spirit, we do everything we can to stay safe, we constantly update ourselves on what is known to the Medical world, and what they are still trying to learn about this Pandemic.

We are by nature positive people, and we don't worry about things that are absolutely not in our control. We are confident that a solution will be eventually found, but until then, we are convinced that we cannot take any chance, before a tested and approved vaccine will be available.

@fiesty76 Thank you I am fine now I think this was the case Anxiety and the heavy boxes . After I rested the pain started to leave . I feel bad we have to endure this at this time . Also Amazon didn't deliver the one small package so I called them had a nice customer service agent that helped me out with the post office . Since they are paying them I thought this is what is happening . Thanks feisty76 for you concern How are you doing? Stay safe

@merpreb Hi I probably wont change anything . I,ll stil l wear my mask for awhile I One thing is to use the bus more to go to stores but will still use Clorax more in cleaning . My son will be able to come over I,ll get to see my grandson go and use there pool hot tub for my back and to relax . We will be able to communicate with out neighbors here Other then this my routine will stay the same . Exercise class will resume and adult coloring . I will plan a trip up to see my friend which will be like a vacation for me . Just taking precautions when out How bout you Merry ?

@merpreb, I apologize, I went off on another tangent about dreams...hard for me to stay on topic and need to work harder at behaving and observing our guidelines...don't wanna' have Connect privileges taken away for bad behavior. Will work to do better!

Good morning Linda. What I meant was how will you decide when it's time to venture out? What will you consider a safe time?

Hi, friend @lioness. Glad it was primarily anxiety. although that is no small demon itself!! Also happy to learn that Amazon rep was nice and helpful...really good to hear because they must be facing a deluge of calls now.

Thanks for asking. I am doing well; following my diet as closely as possible; "celebrating" 41st day of self-quarantine; utterly humbled and grateful that I have remained healthy despite several chronic health issues.

However, I am beginning to become discouraged by the many I fear who will be flooding back into more normal life" too soon. I and others here can only continue taking the precautions we can to continue to stay well and safe. Just feeling a bit down because that time may stretch far longer than I'd first imagined. We can do this and this group is making it so much easier to stay on track. Best!

@merpreb I don't know when things will get back to order
Last week protesters in Huntington Beach now a nursing home in that area has covid virus in the home .These people scare me they are in my opinion spreading the virus.So right now I'm staying in wearing mask .Now Dr s are predicting it will be worse this winter it's beenn40+ days now so getting use to it

@lioness.. Yes, I'm worried too. With temperature going to the 90s this weekend and Orange County is opening the beaches, I suspect they will be packed, I doubt there will be social distancing there. I'm checking the county's statistics, hoping that the virus has slowed down, but with the beaches re-opening, I'm not so sure anymore. My car battery died the other day because I haven't been driving, and my son came to over to restart it, we both wore masks just to be safe. Now I have to remember to take my car for a spin at least once a week.