@CountingDown , so sorry about your loss. Hugs.
How is your daughter doing?
@jym626 she was fine. She got another day off from work and felt better. She gave notice at her job (last day 7/4!) and I will be helping her move from the city where she lives now to her medical school city a week after that. We’re both so excited!
Thank you for asking.
@rosered55 -am posting over here as this thread got buried in all the others. So sorry about your nephew and new mom niece testing positive. The news this morning reported some very startling # (like one in 3 people??) knew someone who had died of COVID.
DS and his w drove to some national parks for their anniversary. DS’s BIL and BIL ‘s GF decided to meet them there… coming from a hotspot. Ugh. So now all 4 will quarantine and the ones from the hotspot will get tested. If they are + then DS and his w will get tested.
For the first time, we know someone who is close to someone with Covid.
My BIL maybe died of it, but we are not certain since our nephew is not very communicative. BIL was in the hospital on a ventilator for a week and passed away two days after they took him off. Nephew said it was pneumonia. BIL had dementia to the stage where he didn’t talk anymore, so it may have been just pneumonia. We do not plan to travel for the service (if there is one).
And then DS’s girlfriend’s grandmother (in AL) just tested positive. She had a stroke about 3 months ago and has been going downhill every since.
So it is getting closer to “home” here.
20+ years ago, I joined a few parenting boards on ivillage. Three of those parenting groups eventually migrated to Facebook. While most have been cyber friends all these years, I have met many of them in person. Yesterday, I opened Facebook only to find several of them and/or their families are dealing with COVID. One is in TX-her college age daughter just tested positive after being exposed by a neighbor who she was nannying for. The husband of another, in TN had tested positive and was quarantined in a hotel b/c their teenage son is immunocompromised. My friend just tested positive. I’m not sure what her plans are for her teenage son as she obviously needs to quarantine now. Same FB group, another woman’s husband on Long Island is recovering but so far, none in the family are positive. Then another friend in PA was exposed by her BFF and went to get tested yesterday.
I live in MD. I don’t personally know anyone locally, or at least any of that I am aware of, who has tested positive, though my zip code has the highest number of cases (560+). Our positivity rate continues to decline, but with things opening back up, I wont be surprised if numbers go back up.
I do know two people personally who recovered from COVID, my 52 y/o cousin in Boston and a good friend’s son, who just graduated from Univ of S. Carolina. He was still living in his off campus apartment when he and numerous friends tested positive several weeks ago after a trip to the beach near Charleston Memorial Day weekend.
My mom’s aunt passed away from Covid this morning. At 98, she was the last of that generation of the family. I’m losing track - I think this makes 6 or 7 people I know of who have passed away from this awful virus. One friend’s dad, some moms, another’s aunt, all contracted the virus at their nursing or memory care facilities.
So sorry for your family’s loss, @dragonmom.
So sorry for all of your losses.
I’m so sorry @dragonmom.
I’m sorry, @dragonmom.
Thank you. My mom was close to her aunt, who moved in with moms family as a young bride with a baby during WWII when her husband was overseas. Alzheimer’s had robbed this smart witty lady of her former self but nobody should die alone while their family says goodbye via FaceTime.
I’m so sorry, @dragonmom .
I am so sorry @dragonmom
Condolences, @dragonmom.
I’m worried about my SIL’s mom and stepdad. They go to AZ every winter to see their daughter, SIL and new grandbaby, and stayed out there later this year because northern New Jersey was so bad. They are still in AZ and now are stuck there for even longer, it looks like.
I am so sorry, @dragonmom.
Sorry for all who have lost loved ones. One of D’Souza friends who lives in NYC had Covid and tested positive for antibodies. I believe she recovered pretty fully, though D didn’t say. I don’t personally know anyone in HI who has tested positive for Covid-19.
Our numbers of cases are increasing and will likely continue to rise as travel increases in August, when people can avoid quarantine with a negative test within 72 hours prior to arriving in HI.
So sorry, @dragonmom
I’m sorry for those who have lost loved ones, and for those who have contracted Covid 19.