Prudie Day

mrsconn23

Ugh: I knew it was coming, but they closed our schools for the year.  Online/distance/packet learning through the end of the year now.  We're moving DefConn's bedroom desk to my office.  

Yay: Mom is making homemade masks for healthcare workers.  I'm glad she's doing something she loves and I know how much she's loved her nurses for the most part, so I'm sure it's helping her feel like she's doing something to help out. Also, she's been bored AF.  My sister and some friends are also making them. 

MissKittyDanger

MNNEBride said:

@MissKittyDanger are those chairs or chair covers?  I think I would look for something that had the darker and natural wood.  But then I lived through the 80's with rose and dusty blue being the colors of choice!

Those are the chairs.
Our current chairs that match the table are unfixable, so we've been trying to hunt down some new ones.
I've been on long loan of one chair from my mum that would look great! But cannot find ones like that due to current styles.
It's hard because the table really doesn't match our style but M's grandparents had it {table is 60yrs old} .... so he really wants to keep it

MyNameIsNot

mrsconn23 said:

Ugh: I knew it was coming, but they closed our schools for the year.  Online/distance/packet learning through the end of the year now.  We're moving DefConn's bedroom desk to my office.  

Yay: Mom is making homemade masks for healthcare workers.  I'm glad she's doing something she loves and I know how much she's loved her nurses for the most part, so I'm sure it's helping her feel like she's doing something to help out. Also, she's been bored AF.  My sister and some friends are also making them. 

That's great! My sister is a nurse at a hospital that has a lot of covid patients. (She typically works on an oncology floor, but she's started picking up shifts in the covid ICU wing.) She said that they're running low on the masks, and while the homemade ones are only about 70% effective, they're exponentially better than no protection. Right now, they're using the homemade ones in non-covid areas so they can free up the N95s for the workers that have to be in actual contact with contaminated patients. They need all the support they can get. 

I want to start making some too. I have a sewing machine that I don't know how to use, but I saw a pattern for one you don't have to sew. 

banana468

My mom is sending some masks to DH and me and she's sewn some.   I may see if she can look to make more.   They're an hour outside of NYC in CT and near some of the CT hot zones.   

levioosa

That’s great news @missJeanLouise!

Work today and tomorrow. I’m glad tomorrow is Friday, even though we won’t be going anywhere over the weekend. We’re trying to consolidate items on our grocery list and stock up for the next two weeks. It’s just hard when fruits and veggies won’t last that long. Also when there aren’t any eggs to be had. I’m this close to buying a chicken to lay some eggs lol. 

ILoveBeachMusic

kvruns said:

Did @ILoveBeachMusic post about how her visit went? 

MrsConn I'm glad your mom is feeling better

CLimbingwife - aren't you always allowed to change 401k contributions? Is your company going to still do a match - if so might want to keep it so you at least get the match 

Thanks for asking! Unfortunately, I got to the imaging center and answered all their corona pre-screening questions. Since I had a post-nasal drip (hello it is spring in Indiana) I was turned away and told to go to the hospital imaging center. I declined because I really didn't want to go into the hospital where there are corona patients. My NP called. She agreed since my symptoms had lessened considerably that it wasn't worth the risk going to the hospital. She thought it was ridiculous that I was turned away since post-nasal drip isn't even a symptom of corona (nor were several of the other questions). I'm still having slight pains in the morning but they dissipate as the morning goes on. She said to follow up with her in two weeks unless they worsen. Ugh this virus has everything f**$ up.

ILoveBeachMusic

short+sassy said:

CharmedPam said:

@short+sassy, I had an alarming doc check up last month.  I thought for sure my numbers were going to be stellar since I watch what I eat, and work out daily. Unfortunately, they were pretty high so I’m on an additional medication.  No insulin yet, but I’m fearful of it if I can’t get it under control. If stress can cause it - then yeah, I can see how my numbers went up, huge stress the last few months but now I’m getting into a new norm. I have a question with diabetics & covid19.  Are both 1&2 “compromised”? 

Ya know, they keep including "diabetes" as an at-risk pre-existing condition for covid19, but I can't fathom why.  It's not a respiratory disease.  Not even the potential complications are related to respiratory.  Diabetics are more prone to heart disease.  But being "more prone" certainly doesn't mean all diabetics have heart disease.

And, while Type 1 is an auto-immune disease, Type 1'ers like myself don't have a weaker immune system.  Type 2 diabetes is NOT currently considered an auto-immune disease.  Though there has been research over the last 10 years that there could be aspects of that in the condition.

However, both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics are more prone to infections.  That's about the only thing I can think of that could be a concern with diabetics and covid19.

Edited:  I originally used the adjective "great" concern.  I didn't mean to.  I think it's maybe a "regular" concern, lol.  I'm not even sure about that.

But maybe a stressed (over active) immune system that couldn't handle the virus as well IDK? Auto-immune diseases do all sorts of things to the body that a person might not be aware of so I can see why they are all listed. Type 2 probably because that is caused by obesity (mostly - I don't know of other causes) which also stresses a lot of the body systems. Groups at risk mean the group in general not definitely every individual are at risk. 

ILoveBeachMusic

Glad your mom is feeling better @mrsconn23 and good luck with the extended homeschooling (and everyone else for that matter)! I'm glad I don't have to homeschool my three now. I always said we would have killed each other if I had homeschooled them Congratulations to your H @missJeanLouise. 

DD is contemplating sending her H and the boys down here for a while. She starts working with the Covid patients on Easter weekend. She is getting different advice from her medical peers. This is going to go on for a while and doesn't think sending them away for a month or two is practical. She thinks maybe they'll come for the first two weeks (which would be the surge in Chicago). It is a tough decision. She told me that at her hospital, they are using the homemade masks over the N-95 masks so that they will last longer. I wish the people who bought those up for their own personal (not medically needed) use would donate them all to hospitals. Please keep DD and family in your thoughts and prayers(if that is what you do).

short+sassy

ILoveBeachMusic said:

short+sassy said:

CharmedPam said:

@short+sassy, I had an alarming doc check up last month.  I thought for sure my numbers were going to be stellar since I watch what I eat, and work out daily. Unfortunately, they were pretty high so I’m on an additional medication.  No insulin yet, but I’m fearful of it if I can’t get it under control. If stress can cause it - then yeah, I can see how my numbers went up, huge stress the last few months but now I’m getting into a new norm. I have a question with diabetics & covid19.  Are both 1&2 “compromised”? 

Ya know, they keep including "diabetes" as an at-risk pre-existing condition for covid19, but I can't fathom why.  It's not a respiratory disease.  Not even the potential complications are related to respiratory.  Diabetics are more prone to heart disease.  But being "more prone" certainly doesn't mean all diabetics have heart disease.

And, while Type 1 is an auto-immune disease, Type 1'ers like myself don't have a weaker immune system.  Type 2 diabetes is NOT currently considered an auto-immune disease.  Though there has been research over the last 10 years that there could be aspects of that in the condition.

However, both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics are more prone to infections.  That's about the only thing I can think of that could be a concern with diabetics and covid19.

Edited:  I originally used the adjective "great" concern.  I didn't mean to.  I think it's maybe a "regular" concern, lol.  I'm not even sure about that.

But maybe a stressed (over active) immune system that couldn't handle the virus as well IDK? Auto-immune diseases do all sorts of things to the body that a person might not be aware of so I can see why they are all listed. Type 2 probably because that is caused by obesity (mostly - I don't know of other causes) which also stresses a lot of the body systems. Groups at risk mean the group in general not definitely every individual are at risk. 

I actually looked it up last night.  At least for Type 1, we are at no higher risk for contracting covid than people with normal immune systems, ie we are not considered immunocompromised.

In addition, we also aren't any more/less likely to wind up with complications or end up in the hospital than a healthy person with no medical conditions, if they do contract covid.  As long as the Type 1 person does not tend to have elevated blood sugars most of the time and/or doesn't have an additional complication, like heart or lung problems.  Fortunately, neither of those apply to me, jic.

I felt very validated that what I've been thinking this whole time is exactly true, lol.  Just yet another example of Type I's...who are only 5-10% of diabetics...getting lumped into the general term "diabetes", for things that pretty much or only apply to Type II.  It's not just this.  It's everything. And it gets very tiring to always be the "forgotten/ignored" ones.  They're different conditions, so they should have different names.  But they don't (sigh).  Sorry for the rant, this is my usual soapbox on that subject, lol.  Not directed at anyone on this site.

Some facts on Type 2 and weight.  A person who is slightly overweight is 5x more likely to develop Type 2.  A person who is obese is 60x more likely.  30% of overweight (not just obese) people will develop Type 2.  Obesity is a major factor for Type 2, but it's hardly the only one.  So is age and genetics.  15% of Type 2 diabetics are thin/normal weight.  Here's my source:  https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/03/the-big-setup/