^ Yes, that is too close for comfort 
On a happier note , DS#1 mentioned that they have been buying eggs from the local bakery because they have an excess (grocery stores are out). He also mentioned… that the bakery also had cookies and pies 
My husband is on our rural water board. Called the president of the board today and learned he has it and is in the city 100 miles away and is on a ventilator. His poor wife has not seen him since she took him to the hospital in the next town 59 miles away (our hospital has a very bad reputation). They took him in but she was not allowed in the building with him. He has had a transplant so the called his transplant team. Then came out and told her he was on his way to the city.
That’s the most horrible thing. I’ve read it in a few places about people being so sick and dying and they don’t get to see their lived ones and the loved ones don’t get to see them. When it’s someone you know the reality hits. So sad. He is not doing well. His elderly wife is distraught that she has not seen him or talked to him.
Husband was at the monthly water board meeting with him a few days before he was hospitalized. It has been over 2 weeks now so I think we are safe.
I wonder if it was it community spread or recent (cruise ship) travel.
Posted on FB by a nurse in Madison, WI
Thank you for sharing this, @Madison85. I live in a suburb of Madison, and I have been wondering how the local health-care workers are doing.
Um, it just got closer to home, literally. My dad’s caregiver developed symptoms while at their house last night. She had also worked Friday night. OMG. Trying not to panic. She is very ill today.
I’m thankful our son came home from my parents’ house Wednesday instead of today, as originally scheduled. This lady works only Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights and my son had no contact with her last weekend. If he’d been there the last two nights, I don’t think he could have flown home today. Of course, he was still in the house after she worked last weekend, so I will be nervous until he’s been home for two weeks.
My sister went over last night and scrubbed everything down. So I’m nervous for her, too.
Update from my Post #69: friend’s wife is still in the ICU, had to be on a ventilator though is off the ventilator now and improving, still on oxygen.
Hoping for the best for your friend’s wife, @Madison85. For me, this HAS just hit close to home. My DH’s cousin (well, actually 1st cousin once removed as officially this cousin’s dad was my DHs cousin, but he was a generation older.) Anyway, the cousin, in Chicago, just died of COVID-19. He was 50 years old and left a wife and 6 kids.
Mainelonghorn, are you still trying to sell the house? Hope your sister can clean it without getting sick. I wonder if there are professional cleaners for a job like this?
My sister just learned that a brother of her hairdresser died of COVID-19 yesterday or today. Wisconsin resident.
I’m very sorry about your family member, @jym626 .
@jym626 , oh I am so sorry. Dr. Fauci is estimating up to 200,000 deaths in the U.S.
That really makes me more paranoid.
My niece, a senior at Carnegie Mellon, tested positive on Thursday. She and school friends were in New Orleans on spring break earlier in the month. As far as I know, she has not been hospitalized but is shut in her room at home. I am very concerned for her mother (my brother’s widow), 15-year-old sister, and late-70s maternal grandmother (who now lives with them). My brother died in Oct. 2017 2 weeks after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. I’m sure having this pandemic strike their family is very, very scary and stressful.
I live in a suburb of NYC and have been working from home since 2 weeks ago on Tuesday. H was sick was a bad cold and not working since a week before that. I’m sort of glad because he has Afib and asthma. We are both in our early 60’s. We haven’t really gone out. Our 3 sons who live at home are very protective. We actually sneaked out to go to the supermarket yesterday. H wore a mask and we both wore gloves. We wiped down the cart and then used an idea I thought of. We brought along a 55 gallon trash bag, cut it open and used it to line the inside of the cart and then taped it in place so our groceries didn’t touch the cart, It worked really well. i did feel like a teenager breaking curfew, though.
My D and her fiance, who live in the Village, have been in an airbnb out of state for 2 weeks. They have it until the end of April. His family is up there as well. A friend of theirs, with whom they had dinner before they left, tested positive but is recovering. They have not shown symptoms but are not seeing his family yet because the mom has lung problems.
The news each day is frightening, but just now, I got a call from one of my closest friends, who thinks she might have it. She wanted to give me her power of attorney to run her business if she can’t. I pray it doesn’t come to that. But the truly scariest thing for me, personally, is that my oldest son, who was out of work last week with an ear infection, still isn’t feeling well. As a letter carrier, he is essential, so he has an appointment for a test tomorrow first thing. His girlfriend’s aunt’s boyfriend is positive and the gf lives with the aunt. He hasn’t seen his gf since he heard about this, but he visited daily before that. His supervisor asked him to come to work after the test, but he told the supervisor he was going to do what the doctor said. If he has to quarantine, he is going to go to a friend’s house because of H and I being high risk. I don’t think my son has it, he tends to hypochondria, but he does have PANDAS, so his immune system isn’t perfect.
Anyway, I have never prayed so much this past week as in my entire life and that includes my 7 years as a yeshiva girl. i feel awful that I can’t do anything to help, but I do plan to spend any stimulus money I get helping local small businesses.
Good luck to everyone, stay safe and stay healthy.
Hoping your son is OK, @techmom99 , and so sorry, @kidzncatz . Hope she has a mild case. And also condolences to your sister’s hairdresser’s family @rosered55 . And everyone else going through this personally or with a friend/loved one, thank heavens for this supportive community. We are in this together.
I am so sorry to all with such close friends and relatives so impacted by this virus. So heartbreaking and sudden.
Son is feeling much better. He now thinks it was coming on for a few days before he became feverish, because he had been coughing a lot more. The coughing didn’t ring alarm bells though because he had had a sinus infection, which he was on antibiotics for. He has been feeling normal since yesterday morning.
I am hoping no one else in my home comes down with anything. I had a splitting headache for a couple of days and very much felt like I have a cold, but who knows. I soooo wish there was a test for antibodies.
My S works in a health care related lab so has been going in to work. He wasn’t feeling well Friday afternoon so left work. He hasn’t felt well all weekend, but he said he feels a little better than today. He is allergic to everything & typically gets sick around this time of year. He is pretty sure that is the issue, since he has a “productive” cough. He hasn’t had a fever. He is being careful, though, and won’t go back to work until he feels well. I wish it was easier to get tests (he would not be approved based on his symptoms).
I, too, wish there was a test for antibodies. If I was somehow exposed & have immunity, I would go to work or volunteer in a job that helps the cause. As it is, the only person I have been around is H, other than once weekly grocery trips … and I treat those incredibly carefully.
Oh, @jym626, I’m so terribly sorry about your family member. And @techmom99 , @kidzncatz, @rosered55 and everyone else with a friend or loved one who’s been exposed or who is ill. What a frightening time we’re living in.
At this point, my kids, who all live across the country, are all fine but someone, in another thread, said they worried about that, if their adult child who lived far away became ill, they wouldn’t be able to be with him. I don’t know why that hadn’t occurred to me but it hadn’t. That, truly, is an awful thought should any of our kids become seriously ill. (((hugs))) to everyone.
Honestly, when you live near your adult child, and they have this virus, you can’t be with them anyway. ;-(