Do you believe you are are at high risk of serious Covid-19 consequences?
I'm doing the pros and cons right now:
Pros
- Small town
- Don't go to large gatherings or even see many folk apart from a handful of close friends
- I think Australia has a handle on testing, isolation etc. It's still too early to tell
Cons
- Age 65
- Have COPD, which is managed but otherwise in good health.
I guess I'd be in the serious consequences group if I contracted Covid-19. Certainly not going to panic, but I'm shopping at quiet times, scrub my hands 10 times a day, keep reasonable physical distance from everyone and monitor temperature.
How would you fare if you contracted Covid?
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Just for doing their jobs. I couldn't do it.
Please be easy on yourself and look after your immune system. Mere words seem so inadequate.
They really are. 
And a CRNA for 40 years. It was sort of annoying having staph infections and carcinomas being dinner conversation, but I always respected how hard my mom and her colleagues worked. That was a job you couldn't just shrug off. Even when we went out to dinner or to a movie, my mother was always on the lookout for sick people and taking care of them. I can't count the number of times she found someone on death's door, just in time, and we followed in the car while she rode with them in an ambulance to a hospital. 
She was that kind of nurse.
It's one of the toughest yet most rewarding jobs in the world, and it takes great people to do it right.
My mom would also have that washed-to-death problem with her hands sometimes. When she got ready for bed, she would slather a ton of cold cream mixed with Vaseline on her hands then sleep with them in gloves. I usually had to put the gloves on her, because her hands would be such a mess! 
Of course, that was way back in the 70s and 80s, when there weren't as many skin care choices as now. Women made do with what they had. Later, she found something called O'Keefe's that she swore by. I saw a new tub of it at her house the last time I was there, so they must still make it.
place with small town nearby. I'm not very social and only have a single neighbor. I'm stocked up so not too worried about myself but my family is another tale.
Most of my immediate family are in California and are involved in a variety of ways. My mom is in her 90s and in assisted living, has respiratory issue, got tested today. One sibling lost their spouse this morning by other causes, was expected long go. Another sibling is self quarantined but doing okay, is sure they've been exposed at work, will likely be okay is they get sick. Another is an RN whose facility has been redirected as a hospital dedicated to the virus and they are now working double shifts. Don't know about the other five but that's enough for one day's worth of calls.
ETA: And nobody can find any toilet paper anywhere.
Whatever minor benefits just aren't weighing in against the detriments.
I was already considering discontinuing my therapy before this for other reasons. This is kind of the final nail in the coffin.
I'm tired of being so careful and nervous for no perceivable gain. Now, it's literally life or death. Even my doctor didn't try and talk me out of discontinuing therapy when I just spoke to them. I suspect that's telling.
Thank you. Take care of you, too.
leave that memory behind.
I can only remember one case that did not get better but he was old and had a lot of other complications. Still, you had the long haul version. I hope the nurses were good to you. We spent a lot of time reading, getting music for especially our younger patients. This was before you could get much on TV, just the beginning of cable. We would visit them after they moved to another floor for whatever rehab awaited them.
You are now in my heart, I never could imagine how difficult that must be. Stay healthy and may you never have more than a tiny cold the rest of your life. 
for exposure so we're hunkering down.
Hi ! 
I guess it's all we can do. Take care of yourself and your immune system and see ya at the other end. 
