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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
I get seasonal allergies every spring: juniper and elm. Sneezing, coughing, itchiness -- it's awful. Last spring I got the usual symptoms, but mixed in was this fear that perhaps it was not just a cold, not just hay fever, but ... [scary music] ... the Coronavirus! Aaaaah! Of all the symptoms that indicated you'd caught Covid-19, the one I fixated on was the loss of smell and taste. I put a container of strongly scented vanilla hand lotion next to my bed. If I woke up and felt particularly anxious that perhaps I had been exposed to Covid-19, I would open the container and take a cautious sniff. I have a small collection of perfume, too, but since I was working from home, I didn't always put any on. The levels in the bottles stayed the same for months.
April 6, 2023
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Talk about how the pandemic has affected your closest relationships.
For the past nine months I have not been in my mother's house. She's 101 years old and still living on her own. During the spring and summer months, it was easy to be outside on her porch to visit. Winter has been a different story. 10 minute visits through her window have been all the family is capable of doing. She is still in good spirits thank God. She received her first vaccine last week, so it won't be too terribly long before we can spend time with her indoors. Missing my time with all my close friends. I really miss them. Phone calls just don't do it for me. If it would just be warm outside so atleast we could spend sometime together. Spring is a comments away. If we could all have the vaccine, we could end this isolation.
February 3, 2021