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#2860631 2-Feb-2022 13:33

Rikkitic:

Can we do anything to distract you? Would you like to hear some stories about my cats?

That would make me catatonic 😀

Sorry bad dad joke but I thought it would be purrfect 😀

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#2860632 2-Feb-2022 13:36

Eva888:

Nothing is ever as bad as what our active mind imagines, night time being the worst for this. Working yourself up won’t change any outcome and most likely your worst fears are unfounded. After recovering, I often got cancer brain when every twinge including an itchy elbow was cancer returning, but distraction works well and life returns to normal, as likely will your anxiety.

I would suggest getting out of the house. Get someone to drive you somewhere where there are a lot of people walking around, turn on talk back radio and sit in the car and people watch. I go shopping, works a treat.

I am isolating so I can't go out. I have been annoying staff with Teams calls

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#2860633 2-Feb-2022 13:36

@Rikkitic I promise you won’t die gasping for breath so remove that image from your mind’s eye, they will sedate you long before that happens.

Nice that you have cats to enjoy. They must be a real comfort.

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#2860639 2-Feb-2022 13:48

MikeB4:

Waiting for the test results is horrible. I am trying to work but my concentration is minimal. Symptoms have not worsened since yesterday.

I can relate to this. A few years ago I got told that based on initial tests there was an 80% chance I had bowel cancer. A colonoscopy was required to tell for sure and there was a spot at the end of the surgery list the next day if I was prepared to pay to go privately, not sure what my options were otherwise. Fortunately I had some spare cash. It was a very very long 24 hours. Fortunately there was no cancer.

One thing I have learned. There is no point worrying about something you have no control over the outcome of, in this case the outcome of test results. They will be what they will be. The odds are you won't have Covid and if you do have it you cannot change that fact.

Right now get on with what ever you would normally be doing as if Covid never existed. Lets face it if things took a turn for the worse you wouldn't be waiting for the test results before you did anything. Monitor your symptoms just as you would do normally and take action if they worsen.

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#2860658 2-Feb-2022 14:10

How are GZ people getting on with your friend / family / work groups, that are outside of your normal family / flatmate bubbles?

The issue I am finding is that a few people I know just don't care. They are fully vaccinated, but only scan when they can be bothered, don't spray hands after visiting super markets etc and look at you like you are a idiot when you suggest they should do all these things and more!

In the South Island, I hear to often it is not in the south and we all are going to get it in the end.

I'd prefer to not get COVID if I can avoid it. I limit my cafe / social gatherings. Still do outdoor exercise as mentally that is very important, but is tricky on tight narrow tramping tracks which means close contact is unavoidable.

A few family members have work dotted around NZ (travel via vehicle - ferry only), we have set a policy limiting contact for minimum 5 days after travel to friends / appointments and asking questions to friends if they or anyone they associate with have traveled etc.

As I live alone, this policy does mean I get less visitors, but hopefully things settle down... sometime hopefully!

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#2860661 2-Feb-2022 14:15

I have printed QR codes four our home and in-laws - even more important as they have builders around the next couple of months.

I am WFH and not planning on getting on bus - I am driving to the city if needed.

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#2860683 2-Feb-2022 14:40

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Rikkitic: It is hard to assign values to these kinds of things. I am trying to figure out where the balance points are.
Here's an easy way to think about the risk: How would you feel driving everywhere without a seatbelt on (and no airbags or similar in the car), or never washing your hands? Chances are nothing much will happen, but many (most?) people would feel profoundly uncomfortable doing it.

I understand the point you are making but your examples don't actually bother me at all. I went through the entire 1960s driving without any form of protection, and that worked out fine in spite of a few accidents along the way. I now belt up without even thinking about it, but I wouldn't have much trouble reverting to the old ways.

I really liked that TV ad where the family is suspended in the air in their car. It makes the point very well. Our brains have evolved to fear falling vertically, but not horizontally. I am well aware of the damage a frontal collision can do, but it doesn't give me the kind of chills that someone slipping off a 700 metre cliff does while trying to take a selfie.

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#2860686 2-Feb-2022 14:44

Turned up at the doctors today for booster vaccination - told sorry you are a week to early, come back in ten days time.

This afternoon the govenrment changed the period from four to three months - sigh

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#2860834 2-Feb-2022 20:22

Just better half just had booster and I had mine last week as we managed to get in slightly early as they had a GP service doing walk-ins so got my first jab a few weeks before the vaccination programme really kicked off.
I’ve decided to WFH as my MIL who is in her 80s is looking to sell her place and the cleanup has been extreme so wearing a mask is impractical so wearing one everywhere else.
As I have said to everyone who asks why I am KN95ed up. “I know my vaccinated MIL and my vaccinated parents will get covid at some point and it would be super if they didn’t get it from me”

Just hoping the country can hold on a month or ideally two before really getting bad.

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#2860871 2-Feb-2022 21:30

Just spoke with daughter in Sydney. Husband went to London to see dying father. Stayed there for a month visiting the hospital and using the trains, always masked. At the funeral someone had covid and they let him know a few days later. He wore masks the whole time except at home.

He flew back to Sydney on Saturday and went straight home from the airport to the family. No isolation required. Family all still clear of anything. Daughter knows quite a few from her work that got Covid. Some were worse than others but all survived. They said it was really bad for a week. Daughter says they have a hundred thousand cases but people are resigned to getting on with life.
The child has a RAT test twice a week to go to school and it’s government provided. Kids wear mask in school but not in the playground. Classrooms have aircon.

Thought this might put some perspective on people’s fears. We aren’t all going to die when life gets back to normal. The more vulnerable just need to take sensible precautions and wear masks when out.

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#2860882 2-Feb-2022 22:12

Bookmyvaccine.nz now accepts bookings for three months since second jab.

I've brought mine forward from next week to tomorrow.

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#2861147 3-Feb-2022 10:41

freitasm: Bookmyvaccine.nz now accepts bookings for three months since second jab.

I've brought mine forward from next week to tomorrow.

Great, thanks for that! Just moved mine from next week to 12pm today, the web site says starting tomorrow you can book but you can already book the shot now, for right now.

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#2861172 3-Feb-2022 11:14

It has been a busy morning. Very good news and bad news. Test results for Covid-19 are negative so that is awesome. However I had a video consult with my specialist this morning and it would seem the symptom's I have are consistent with Pericarditis.

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#2861180 3-Feb-2022 11:27

Looks like I'll be off to the quack for some more drugs...I'm now due my booster and I am starting to get super anxious again.

I really thought this was all over for a while. I'm so over Covid.

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#2861184 3-Feb-2022 11:34

MikeB4:

It has been a busy morning. Very good news and bad news. Test results for Covid-19 are negative so that is awesome. However I had a video consult with my specialist this morning and it would seem the symptom's I have are consistent with Pericarditis.

I don't know what that is, but it's obviously not good.

How are you coping with the news? You OK?

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