I thought I must just pop in and update you on my son. He came off the ventilator last week and they did a Tracheostomy. They also inserted pacer wires for a pacemaker should it have been needed at the time - which it wasn't until twenty four hours later. He seemed to be quite stable until yesterday when he had a heart attack, they resuscitated him and now he is stable again. We are under no illusion that what the outcome may be. The emotional side of this for the family is dreadful. Thank goodness for my garden it's keeping me sane at the moment - well maybe my OH wouldn't agree with me! I must start posting on here again, I have been looking in and I know some of you are also in a similar position, Hugs to all and stay safe.
@floralies. We are all keeping going with the help of our gardens and I hope that your news will get better and better, I was wondering how you were the other day and I’m so pleased that you are back with us. Love & best wishes, Valerie
I feel for you floralies and lilly6, what awful situations, totally unexpected, my daughter (who is now isolating with symptoms herself) has a friend with a husband in a similar situation to your son.Punkdoc, what is your personal view on wearing masks in public, I see Nicoa Sturgeon has different ideas for Scotland.
I agree with @B3 about the testing, my son has a blood test every month, they’ve put it off now for 3 months but it’s now due, he doesn’t want to go, when I said that the doctors will have been tested he said that’s not much help as he could have contracted it on the way home. So the dilemma continues, should he go to the surgery on not.
There are a lot of myths about the home made masks, especially ones made from cotton material, I would rather just keep the distance from anybody. This is quite interesting. https://youtu.be/IeRdFjc_TZk
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
@Nanny Beach, I am not a fan of masks, the evidence really does not support their use and also completely fails to discuss how peoples behaviour changes when they wear one, a lot more face touching etc..
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Maybe, if you see someone wearing one you will think they’re ill and keep the distance, that’s probably the best they do. We just donated some to a local care home, but they cost £5.00 or so each, hopefully they will get the benefit from them, Stonemasons dust masks. They will be trained to wear them and will use correctly, most people won’t, as Doc says, once you’ve touched it you can spread it everywhere.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Hmmm this South Korean expert seems to think that wearing masks is a good idea. But what do the South Koreans know about dealing with viral epidemics? We are much more advanced in this country, clearly.
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@floralies. We are all keeping going with the help of our gardens and I hope that your news will get better and better, I was wondering how you were the other day and I’m so pleased that you are back with us. Love & best wishes, Valerie
So the dilemma continues, should he go to the surgery on not.
There are a lot of myths about the home made masks, especially ones made from cotton material, I would rather just keep the distance from anybody.
This is quite interesting.
https://youtu.be/IeRdFjc_TZk
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
We just donated some to a local care home, but they cost £5.00 or so each, hopefully they will get the benefit from them, Stonemasons dust masks. They will be trained to wear them and will use correctly, most people won’t, as Doc says, once you’ve touched it you can spread it everywhere.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
https://youtu.be/gAk7aX5hksU?t=1060