Kate
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I mean, it would be somewhat interesting to actually know, but at this point I don’t think I’d do anything differently as a result.
Yeah, it seems like the antibody tests are pretty useless right now. That said, in Massachusetts, which was pretty hard hit, modeling suggests only about 10% of people have been exposed and would have antibodies. So even if the tests were accurate, 90% of us would test negative. The thing is, no one even knows if you’d have immunity or for how long, so I’m not out here seeking info on how to get an antibody test to find out if that cough I had in February was Covid. It doesn’t matter. I could still carry the virus and potentially infect other people.
Glad it wasn’t him!
Last weekend there were dead baby birds outside the front door, from a nest that a couple of doves have next to A/C on the third floor. There’s a guy who’s really really into these doves, plus the old guy whose window it is and he told me he likes them. My husband saw the babies on the ground when he went out at 6am to take the dog to pee, and I was like, we have to get rid of them. He picked them up with paper towels or something and took them to the trash. I hope no one else saw.
We just got lobster rolls for takeout and it did put us in a better mood to have that classic Memorial Day food. Even though last year at this time we were on a sunset lobster roll boat cruise on cape cod 🙁 With a bar. And with friends.
But when we call her, there ain’t shit to talk about. She used to have visitors almost every day and there were things happening to chitchat about. My mom used to give her a foot rub with lotion (she’s got a lot of stiffness and can only walk assisted), and I would do her nails. So she’s missing all that interaction.
She can’t, unfortunately. She does have an iPad my dad gave her, but I don’t think her hands are mobile enough to use it without help. The nurses help her check email and stuff. We just talk on the phone.
I drove over to Boston to drop the stuff off for my aunt. You can leave things on a little table right inside. I called her first and she was SO excited to have new things, like it was Christmas. She told me like 3x to make sure to let the person at the front desk know I’m leaving something for her. I feel really bad for her because she’s definitely the most with-it person in there mentally, and there is just nothing to do. They did turn the TV channels back on so she can watch movies, and I guess a nurse let her do something she wasn’t supposed to do, which was so illicit she won’t even tell me what it was, but otherwise it’s so freaking boring and the nurses are working their asses off and don’t have time to chat as much. I don’t know how much she knows about what’s happened with the virus in nursing homes, I haven’t told her any of that. She’s not afraid, just bored.
Yeah, to clarify, the reason I wouldn’t want to hang out with kids or anyone who may not completely follow guidance, is that it could put older people I come into contact with at more risk. Copa, you’re younger than I am and not really encountering seniors, right, so you’re probably fine.
My brother, who’s in his late 40s, extremely overweight, has breathing problems, delivers packages to businesses for a job (so he is high risk even in himself) is dying to go visit my parents (age 70) on cape cod this weekend and they’re going to let him, though they say they’ll make him stay outside. Where’s he gonna go to the bathroom though?? The thing about him is he DOES NOT WASH. He comes in contact with multiple members of the public and has the worst hygiene of anyone I know. I can’t.
PS, I wouldn’t feel comfortable being around kids right now. Or really anyone, but my mental health has been damaged.
I wish my job was just shopping for old people. I love how they want the most specific things, like vanilla soy milk and cranberry walnut chicken salad. And not the paper masks because they hurt. And my aunt said her hair is crazy dry, which I assume is because the nurses wash it with a high-detergent shampoo and no conditioner (when she lived alone she said it was really oily but that was because she couldn’t do a good job washing it herself), so I went to target and got her nice shampoo and conditioner and a serum, plus a couple cute tops and some extra-soft toothbrushes. I can leave them on a table in the main building and she’ll get them. Shopping is so much more satisfying than doing a bunch of ppt crap that someone will be like, oh, we actually don’t need that now, we’re doing this instead or whatever.
My puppy tried to make friends with a cat today and got whacked in the face twice 🙁 I think she got his eye.
My mom was always very professional and put-together, with high-quality cuts and color. Then a year and a half ago something happened with her health that she won’t talk about or let my dad talk about, and she basically started isolating herself as if it was a pandemic. She stopped cutting her hair and just would use box dye on her roots. Now her hair is way longer than it should be and she’s been cutting it herself, and when the actual pandemic started she decided to just go gray. So she just like puts her hair up in a bun and wraps a scarf around her head. It’s weird. But she doesn’t care and refuses to go to the salon where she used to be every 4 weeks without fail. I feel like if you’re going to transition to gray after dyeing your hair forever you should get a cute short haircut and a professional’s help.
