Just need to talk to my friiends (157)

Mint

Good morning

Nicole I’m very sorry about your uncle.  Hope someone is able to come and be with you soon.  Understand you being scared.  You are in my prayers.

Lorita I wish you lived closer to me.  You could have thanksgiving with us.  You and I would wear our masks and then we would find our selves a spot to eat. I don’t really care whether I go to holidays or not any more, but imagine knowing I have the option isn’t as hard mentally as feeling there is no option.  But at same time feel now that I have my second vaccine that is effective 7-14 days after receiving it that I need to get back to a little more normalcy. Think it is time.

Lorita I hope you get to feeling better mentally and physically soon.  Know you are going through a rough patch,  you have a lot on your plate. 

Feel like yesterday some of the decisions I have been mulling over in my head were confirmed to be ok.  It is a little hard for me to trust my decisions sometimes.  Feel like I am so alone in making them.  Imagine this is hard for you Lorita and the other ones on here too that feel alone.  Afraid I might be making the wrong one just because I’m being into big of a hurry for some sort of return to being a little more normal.

Heard a pulmonologist/critical care specialist talking from John Hopkins yesterday.  He said he has been going to Raven games.  Stated I wear my N95, and I am the only person in my whole section wearing one.  Said I don’t care, I’m being responsible as I need to be able to go to work every day.  That helped me to hear from someone in the field I worked with, to confirm how I feel.  Someone on the ground is doing this and it is working.  He is working with the worst of Covid, going to football games and doing ok because he is taking care of business and making good risk assessments.   I’m going to start to do things that I’m comfortable with using the knowledge I have.  Think how I plan on doing Thanksgiving is reasonable.  I’m comfortable with it now.  

He also stated that he will be wearing his mask forever during flu, RSV season.  States that he thinks America should consider that.  So that reaffirmed for me how I had been thinking about that.  40000-100,000 people die each year from the flu normally.  We see what happened last year.  RSV is horrible for babies and older unhealthy people.  Think how much burden we would take off of the health care system, maybe our insurance premiums could lower, sure it would save a lot of healthcare cost.  I use to really dread RSV season at work.

Think I know how to use good assessment skills and need to start doing that.  Need to have confidence in that.  Know if community spread is very low like it was in mid June, ok to eat out.  If it is high like it is now, ok to go in and pick up with mask on but not ok to sit down, take my mask off and eat.  That is going to vary for each community.  So need to beware of this for what ever community you are doing this in.   Hopefully eventually people will start seeing.  There seem to be a lot of slow learners but hopefully they will eventually catch on.  A 33 year old, with five children, died in my community this week from Covid.  Very, very sad.  He was unvaccinated I am assuming from two nasty comments I saw made.  There are a lot of cruel people on both sides.  One more family paying the price for poor decision making.  

Iris I didn’t take anything for my sore arms.  It lasted about 2 days.  Understand why you did though.

Think I will make a blueberry pancake for breakfast and meatloaf for lunch.  Haven’t had either one in a long time.

Take care everyone

BethL

Lorita, the mint dessert sounds good. I think it could be made with crushed Oreos too. I've made something similar in the past. I hope and pray you are feeling better. Life does get overwhelming at times, particularly if you are living alone. I'm glad you have good friends to help.

Nicole, take care, be good to yourself and do what you need to do to take care of yourself. I'm praying for you and your uncle. You have been so good to him.

Sara, thanks for sharing your thoughts regarding risk/safety. I am glad you feel safe to join with your family at Thanksgiving. 

Joan, sounds like winter is just about to come to your area. I do love Colorado. We have stayed in Estes Park many times. I call it my happy place.

Ron, I hope you are doing well. Write when you have a chance. Jo, same with you. Glad that you seem to be doing better.

We got 5" of rain this week! I think our area is now just "abnormally dry" instead of in "moderate drought." Good news. 

Have a blessed day everyone. Be good to yourself and maybe do a little kindness to someone else to make their day better. Hugs, Beth