What has happened since? Well the world has gone crazy. We have all been hit by this pandemic of Covid-19. No matter who we are, we have all been affected by this invisible virus that has affected the whole world. Who would have thought that we would have to remain at home for months, not go to work or the shops, not go to school and simply stay at home and forced to protect ourselves and those around us from this virus that is totally invisible. It's a scary thought but also a scary reality. Everyone has handled this differently and in their own way. Most of us forced to remain at home, only go out when necessary, wear face masks for months, wash and sanitize our hands. It's amazing, at the beginning of lockdown we could not find hand wash and sanitizer - did people not wash their hands??? We certainly did. We have been trained from Neonatal ICU days that washing hands is so important.
Most of our lives have changed forever, most of us know someone that has had Covid, some have lost loved ones due to Covid. A lot of people have lost their jobs, their businesses, their livelihoods. We thought life was tough before Covid then Covid hit and everything changed!! Our freedom was gone, our social life was gone, we could not even see our close family. We have had to learn to adjust, we have all had to embrace isolation, embrace technology, embrace our small family unit and learn to be stuck at home together. Our employees have had to learn to adjust to not having employees at work, we have had to show our employees that although we are not at work we can still get the job done. We have all had to learn to rely on one another.
For our family this has been even tougher. Having Jason who under normal circumstances is at risk of infection now has this huge risk of catching Covid. Any one of us could get it and not even know we have it and take it home to Jason. At the end of March we had to change everything. We had to let our full time domestic go as we cannot risk an outsider bringing the virus in no matter how careful they are. Both Bruce and myself had to stay home and both kids off school. As the lockdown levels changed, not too much changed for us. Bruce went back to work as he simply cannot do his job from home but I was and have been lucky enough to be able to work remotely from home and continue my job and look after the kids. Both of them are being home schooled with the help of their schools. Both kids have been working on different platforms and it has certainly been a learning curve for all of us. It certainly has been tough! We have had to be that much more extra careful. Polygam infusions had to change from in hospital to infusions at home and Jason now receives his polygam in the comfort of our own home thanks to our awesome medical aid. Our family go nowhere besides Bruce at work, me popping into work and the shops and the beach (a private beach).
Added to our stress Jason landed up in hospital last Sunday. He had been battling with constipation for 2 weeks which just got worse and worse. Eventually he was so constipated he started gagging, stopped eating and dehydrated. He had fecal loading again. This time so bad that we had to go to theatre on Wednesday to have the blockage removed. His xray showed his whole abdomen was full and his colon enlarged. His tummy just full of gas and he was so uncomfortable. Nothing was helping. We were giving oral meds and enemas and still nothing until the day after theater. His tummy finally started working with the help of laxatives and the removed blockage. His sinuses were also blocked according to the sinus xray, both his eyes had an infection and he needed an antibiotic. This one has been really tough, I haven't seen Jason in this much pain in a long time. The cramping and the tummy noises, he's been through a lot. We are on our 4th day of antibiotic and he is SO much better. The bruises on his hands and feet are terrible. He is due polygam on Wednesday but we are doing that tomorrow as we will not find a vein on Wednesday. While we have a vein we will do polygam and praying this vein holds out until we are finished with everything.
Hopefully we will finish the antibiotics, finish the polygam and go home on Monday if all is well. Unfortunately I will miss Nicoles first day back at school - many firsts that I miss. Her one tooth is about to come and if it does, dad is going to have to be the tooth fairy. I just hope it holds out - if not dad will have to remember once she is asleep. She has drawn a whole lot of pictures and written letters for the tooth fairy. I hate missing these things. BUT I have such a wonderful husband that is an amazing father to our kids. Most men would have run a mile but he has been here every step of the way AND he has done it all on his own. Our family are not in the same area as us and we have not had the family support that we need but he has kept going and kept by my side. He has been doing the washing and the folding, holding down a job, running a business, running the house with everything and seeing to Nicole. He is super dad!! On top of that with Covid I can't leave the hospital front door. I haven't been able to pop home and help, pop to the shops, nothing. So he has had it full on for a week now. I must add with me having to stay in hospital I have been forced to REST after 6 months of total stress and doing everything. It would have been nice if we didn't end up in hospital but God has a plan for everything and maybe this was his way of telling me to slow down? Now that I have been forced to slow down and rest, I am ready to go home and be with my family after being split for a week.