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8th Oct 2021NinKi commented on:
Daily diaries of those who are self-isolating due to CoronavirusWell, it has been right at a year and a half since I posted here for the first and until now last time. Lost track of how to get here but found it again. Made it through the first year but not without some rather serious health ramifications - but at least I did NOT get Covid. Prolonged isolation and lack of exercise, etc., is not particularly healthy, it would appear. The vaccine was like magic - two weeks after the second shot I was able to return to some semblance of a normal life including Silver Sneakers classes at the gym, albeit with mask and social distancing as tools. The fact that we were off the first surge helped enormously. Second surge came in July - end of gym for a while as too many of the locals abandoned all protocols as soon as it was not longer required. Back to mostly isolation with the excellent exception of patio dining. Got my third shot this week and the second surge is dropping so hopefully I will get to return to the gym in another week. Online shopping has gained great popularity with me for the first time in my life and after today with very poor service at the local pet store while shopping for my new dog's food, I think I will just have to abandon my love of shopping local and go online. Too bad, but the local business owners need to get a clue: you are not doing us a favor by being there, we are doing you the favor of our business. My attitude is I will conduct myself with courtesy and pay you money for yours wares. I expect you to conduct yourself with courtesy and at least acknowledge I am in your store. After the death of my last dog, Angel Beagle, in July and the death of my last cat, Angle Kitty, in August, I had determined that being alone in my house for the very first time in my entire life was not a bad thing. For the first time ever I could clean my house and not have to do it again for a week. LOL, no more piles of pet hair in the corners and on the furniture. No one to feed but me, I could go and do as I pleased within reason considering the pandemic for as long as I liked. I was liking that but my sister conspired otherwise. She found a lab mix in desperate need of a good home and knew I would not say no. To her credit she paid for the initial vet visit because I could not. So, I adopted a dog that I had been led to believe was older, smaller and SPAYED. LOL, ShellBee Bear is just a year, a good fifty pounds and I discovered beyond all doubt on Monday morning was certainly not spayed. We will do our very best to NOT get pregnant and then we will be spayed in December. Having rescued many dogs in my earlier life and found homes for 30 of them, I am a firm believer in having a non-reproductive household. Well, I have rambled on and on. Sorry for having lost this site for 18 months. I know I have missed many good conversations. You all take care.ViewDate:
25th Apr 2020NinKi commented on:
Daily diaries of those who are self-isolating due to CoronavirusThe times are hard and the grief, death and hardship around us are hard to accept, it gets overwhelming. Soo...., one escape is to focus on the restricted life I have left..., in other words, get selfish in the sense of focusing on self or the darkness will overwhelm me... Well, was looking for some chat in Arkansas, USA and landed here, apparently in the UK. Don't have a problem with that at all. Don't really fit in Arkansas any way. Isolating. Due to my health issues - respiratory allergies and too many bouts of pneumonia - I have to isolate not only from the general population (evil of me to say this but not having to hang out with the Trumpies is not that great of a sacrifice) but also the environment - same allergies. Having lost my job due to the virus, I am really stuck in the house. I do watch the news, love public television here in America (PBS - check them out, excellent line-up of documentaries and British drama and mysteries and the BBC report every night), Love to read books (have started reading Issac Asimov's books with I, Robot current and Foundation books next), cook and freeze food, wash dishes, do laundry, getting a bit nuts that my hair needed a good cut about six weeks ago, am seriously thinking about painting the inside of my house, on and on and just trying to stay busy. The hardest part is no one to talk to. Dog and cat do the best they can but if it were not for my excellent chiropractor - a very fine young man with a real brain with whom I get to visit every two weeks - I think I would lose my mind. We do not always agree BUT he gives me a lot to think about and we always respect that the other has good reason behind the opinion. SO - probably TMI. BUT if anyone out there is as desperate as I am for a good chat...ViewDate:
25th Apr 2020NinKi commented on:
Lonely and vulnerable and looking to chatAre you able to put a note through their door to ask if they are OK? Especially at this terrible time. A lot of the time people get so wrapped up in their own lives they need a jolt of somebody else showing some humanity to get them moving in the right direction. I understand being isolated. Virus took my job, have to stay home except for necessary shopping and dog and cat just don't talk that much.