
Creating this simply because it is BAAACCCCCKKKKK, and we are going to be dealing with it.
Under good news: a new task force will have Kessler at the helm. One of the most brilliant and honest men in our world. The plan to to make PPE in our OWN COUNTRY. The vaccine may be on the way. Team Germany with Pfizer in the final lap of this race. We are better at treatment; fewer are dying.
Bad news: anyone who must be congregated with others is at risk. The elderly are at risk. And another bout of lockdown? I cannot imagine this for our elders. But it is going to happen.
I thought I would create this Dashboard so we can comment on anything Covid. Does your loved one have it? How are they doing? Did they beat it? How did that go? Are they on lockdown and you are frantic?
Just asking. How are you doing with the new uptick of our least favorite virus? What are your thoughts? Ideas? Have you had it? Have you lost a loved one? Have you survived it?
I think if it were left up solely to the Director of her facility, I'm not so sure she would have residents going out to their families homes. She has a passion for the elderly and has been working with them since she was 14 years old. She has been running a tight ship and it took us a lot to even get my mom to be accepted into their facility since she had COVID and would be transported from the three-week rehab stint after being hospitalized to move there.
The fact they've only had three cases to me is amazing where there were 44 (out of an 85-resident capacity) at her previous ALF and over 22 of them died.
Yes, so they are not on lockdown. I could go and do an indoor visit but, have to go through all the testing and I don't know if it's covered through our insurance in which we have a high deductible plan. I'm glad the director did give us places to have the testing done but, haven't delved into it yet. As far as I know, I can't go into her apartment - it would be in the TV area just beyond the lobby.
And I do realize their workers go home and come back to work and who knows what they do when away from their jobs. That's how it happened at her previous facility. The facility was right by the hospital, so basically I called it Care Facility Row where there was six facilities on that one street. One of the staff at her facility would go down the street and work at one of the other facilities and brought it back to my mom's. Both facilities were on every local news station at the time this was all still new and unknown back in April/May.
Your daughter is about my age so I can imagine her being with small special ed children it's very difficult for her to stay protected. And as for the young, they're the ones who may be the most asymptomatic and then like you said, the spread will occur with the elderly who are sitting ducks.
I've been concerned about all the healthcare workers on so many different levels since this began. Our state had a 46-year old "healthy" doctor with a wife and two young kids who ended up getting it around April and was in the hospital for nearly two months and went into a coma. His medical practice is right up the street from where we live. It was a terrible situation but, thankfully he survived and I watched the reuniting of his family when he was finally released.
Good idea for you to do your own Thanksgiving and just visiting in your neighborhood.
My husband does like to research all the statistics and charts etc. and he told me the same thing I think you mentioned the other day about the proposed vaccine having a 90% effective rate. I'll have to ask him if he's heard about the monoclonal antibodies. Lately, he's been mainly talking about the vaccines requiring storage in extreme temperatures and wondering how places will be able to adhere to those storage requirements. Also, the fact that he wishes there could be a pill form instead of injections requiring you to get them I think it was three weeks apart.
Keeping fingers crossed!
I think at this point impossible for your Mom to get again. They have few cases of re infection outside of 6 months out. I think only several. Still, wouldn't want to risk it.
We aren't even going to our own kids in our own city for thanksgiving, and they are careful due to pre existing conditions for two of them. We are doing our own Turkey's visiting one another talking out in the street masked, exchanging a baked goodie or two.
These are tough times. A bad uptick and I fear for our medical folks; and lockdown? I fear for our elders. My daughter is back to teaching special ed little ones; she says there is literally no way for her to stay safe enough, and she is late 50s.
I hear today that one of the monoclonal antibodies will be approved. But infusion, it can only be given to those hospitalized.
Right now I'm concerned with the letter we received from my mom's facility last night. On the one hand, the Director said she got word from Corporate that residents will be allowed to go to their families homes for Thanksgiving Day and Christmas. For my husband and I who are renters, we are allowed to go to the facility on those two days and have their holiday meals in the outside courtyard - I'm not too fond of having my mom outside as well as our meals getting cold as I'm sure the temps will be at least chilly even if we live in the desert southwest. I just feel like this is a mixed signal.
Are people who have it in their homes really going to limit the number of people in attendance, keep their distance, wear masks in their own homes and most of all refrain from hugging/kissing their loved one(s) while my husband and I abide by the rules on the facilities turf?
My mom already survived COVID back in April/May and has been under hospice care ever since along with no longer having the ability to walk or dress herself. Also, it still isn't clear as to whether my mom can get COVID again - at least this soon after having plenty of time recovering from it. When the facility had three cases in the last 5 months, she was quarantined to her room for 14 days each time.
My husband and I have done everything in our power to not get it i.e. I shop once a week during the slow weekdays and early in the morning to avoid a large crowd. We don't go to restaurants anymore like we used to all the time and go through drive thru's for takeout and coffee. I've always been a cleaner so I use spray bottles of 70% - 91% alcohol to spray handles, door knobs etc.
As of now, we plan on going to the facility for the two holiday meals but, I honestly don't know what to think about all of it especially when we've been warned about the increase of cases during the fall/winter/flu season.
It's very frustrating to say the least but, it could be the last Thanksgiving and Christmas I will have with my mom and I hate for her to be alone while everyone else is doing something. I guess all of it ticks me off!