Hey guys,
So I know I've posted like this before but I feel it is important we discuss how this current pandemic is affecting us now that it has been over a month. If you feel comfortable please share your experiences as well.
For me, this pandemic has been difficult as I'm sure it is with all of you. I for one hate that I can't go out and play a sport or hang out with my friends. Sure I love my family but they also drive me crazy so I find myself isolating myself to my room most days. Also am I the only one losing track of the days of the week. I feel as if these weeks keep flying by and I can't even keep track anymore.
P.S. My volleyball class where I have to send videos of myself training with or without a volleyball has been going well but it is still very weird for me that I'm making these videos.
I agree with you since in these weeks it has been very difficult to stay at home since one misses going out, going to college, working, leading a normal life. I also understand that it is a time to share with the family and with my daughter but it is somewhat difficult since in my case my daughter liked to go outside, enjoy, go to school and play with her friends. She misses going to the park but in this situation you cannot go out since you have to stay home for the good of our health. This situation is stressful but you have to hope that this health problem will pass soon.
ReplyDeleteHey guys, im sorry i haven't contributed this at all. This damn shut has really messed me up. I don't know why because i have been a shut in and a hermit for most of my life. The idea of having to stay in is just claustrophobic. i don't speak to anyone besides my wife and my therapist.
ReplyDeleteI taking a volleyball class where i have to either video my self or do a journal so i choose the journal. Also my yoga class I have to video my self practicing different postures the fact I have video myself i find it a little uncomfortable. Staying inside doesn't bother me because i am accustom to being inside before all this. but the fact i can't see my family it bothers me or be around them.
ReplyDeleteThanks for checking back in Stephen. A lot can happen in the span of a month. You bring up something I think we all deal with in terms of losing track of days of the week, nearly everyone I've spoken to reports the same feeling. I've definitely experienced this. Do you live with a big family? Also glad to hear your volleyball class is going well.
ReplyDeleteMany of my friends have been falling ill with covid (MANY are medical workers in some capacity), a couple of family members have only just recovered recently and a few are dealing with some residual symptoms after the worst of the disease has passed. I had two scares over the last month of possible exposure and the anxiety (and despair, honestly) has been intense. I started experiencing a strange tightness in my chest since last Sunday. Last Sunday, my next door neighbor died from complications due to covid. My partner and I both watched on helplessly as he was being resuscitated in his dying moments inside the ambulance and it was a very awful scene. My neighbors all watched from their doors. We've been neighbors for 22 years. I've just been trying to help my friend find a grief counselor, she's been badly affected by this and can't stop thinking about it/constant nightmares. It was awful. I don't even know what to say.
Thanks for sharing your stories. This is a stressful time. I want to urge people to talk to someone, esp. if you're alone. You can conference w/ a QCC therapist for free via video chat or phone. Also, I know that people are worried about catching COVID. My wife and I are too (she's seven months pregnant today). But we think the risk/benefit analysis is definitely on the benefit side re going outside. We go outside once a day, weather permitting. We wear masks, we social distance. Sometimes we just walk around the neighborhood. I'm a writer and film critic, so I love being inside. But like Stephen and Jose point out, there is a different tension when you're being FORCED to stay inside, when going outside puts you at risk. It's scary. My neighbor died too, Steph. One of my colleagues at QCC has also died. We think my nephew got COVID (he was never tested, though he tested negative for Strep and the flu), but he's recovered and no one else in the family has gotten sick. Stay safe.
ReplyDeleteThe Pandemic has changed everything and I feel like it keep getting worse because the governor and the president decides to move the date (of our freedom) for the second time. While working in the mall having more time to be relaxed and get more acquainted with some of my colleagues. After getting to know one of the guys I work with which I helped train for his position at work. He was always sad some how, seen by his expression one can tell he was missing someone or something, as I ask what was wrong he simply tells me that he came to America for his family not caring much of what he wanted which was to stay in India. As we got to know one another he told me he had a daughter that is 16 year old and a son at 18 year old. Unfortunately I was unable to talk to him because I notices that he was unusually tired more often because he was always sitting down never really walking around doing rounds and he was coughing sometimes and a bit much other times. So I decided to keep my distance just in case 2 weeks later he was sent home and wasn't allowed to come back to work until he got better. Four days after that while working mu morning shift on Saturday on March 21 we were called in to the office by our manager and I remembered that day because it started to get warm out. As we waited in the manager's office and other colleagues started coming in. The manager decides to tell us an important news regarding the security officer my colleague and those 3 years of working with him. My manager told us that Mohamed the officer that was on home leave was not coming back to work and also said that on that Saturday morning about 9am he had passed away. The guy I saw last week from then. The 58 year old man fairly young man that told me he came to America for his family knowing that it kills him leaving the only place he knew, the place he had his childhood that man is now gone.Muhammad has passed away in Queens hospital at 9 that morning of March 21 2020.
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ReplyDeleteThat's a really sad story. Thanks for sharing, Xavier. I'm sorry for your loss.