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#2542257 16-Aug-2020 14:15

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How awful for you! It must feel very frightening. Hospital will make you feel more secure so it was a good move and you will at least get your bloods done.

Thanks for the support. Yeah I was a bit distressed about my unexplained condition. Hospital attended to me quickly and did my bloods etc. Even the doctor there was surprised by Labtests refusal.

Great outcome. Flicking a message to your local MP to make them aware of your experience would probably go a long way to helping make sure no one else runs into this sort of brick wall in your area.

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#2542276 16-Aug-2020 15:04

Months of anxiety over COVID-19 and constant worries over staying safe is taking a toll on me. Constantly feeling on edge and wound tight is exhausting.

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#2542545 16-Aug-2020 20:56

MikeB4: Months of anxiety over COVID-19 and constant worries over staying safe is taking a toll on me. Constantly feeling on edge and wound tight is exhausting.

It’s tough that you are being affected so deeply, but the power to stop worrying is within you and in controlling your own thoughts. Getting the right perspective on the problem in NZ can help you deal with the anxiety it’s causing. Unless you are in the over 70 age group with numerous other health issues you are unlikely to die from Covid even if you did by some remote chance catch it. 5 million people...what are the chances? Take sensible precautions and have confidence in them and yourself.

I have found the most simple way to stem anxiety is to halt your mind from thinking too far ahead. Only allow your thoughts to venture a week ahead, any thoughts going further than that, pull back to the present. All the 'what ifs' in your mind are exhausting so halt them and find ways to distract yourself.

Give yourself a gift and a treat and do something that sparks joy in your heart.

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#2542565 16-Aug-2020 22:07

GV27:
kiwiharry: Thanks for the support. Yeah I was a bit distressed about my unexplained condition. Hospital attended to me quickly and did my bloods etc. Even the doctor there was surprised by Labtests refusal.

Great outcome. Flicking a message to your local MP to make them aware of your experience would probably go a long way to helping make sure no one else runs into this sort of brick wall in your area.

Wife emailed the PM yesterday and she got a response tonight saying her correspondence has been passed onto the Minister of Health for him to follow up.

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#2543607 18-Aug-2020 12:18

Another thought on dealing with Covid19 stress based on this Financial Times article: One way of dealing with stress and anxiety is to write down what's making you anxious in a diary. You don't need to ever read it but the act of pouring out the stress on paper helps to get it out of your system. So it's not necessary a recording technique, it's a coping technique.

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#2543626 18-Aug-2020 12:56

Well, my little guy is back to starship again now. There are about 5-6 things that could be wrong with him, most of them should resolve with time and painkillers, but I have started to have similar symptoms too now. It's worrying because it's him, but the fact it can move to another person makes it less likely it's super serious. They say you wear your heart on your sleeve once you have kids and it's really very true.

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#2543636 18-Aug-2020 13:05

Good luck and all the best. Stay strong. Sterkte.

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#2543693 18-Aug-2020 13:52

networkn:

Well, my little guy is back to starship again now. There are about 5-6 things that could be wrong with him, most of them should resolve with time and painkillers, but I have started to have similar symptoms too now. It's worrying because it's him, but the fact it can move to another person makes it less likely it's super serious. They say you wear your heart on your sleeve once you have kids and it's really very true.

He is in the best place, rest so you can be strong. Kia kaha.

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#2544687 19-Aug-2020 19:02

My Decaying Mind in Quarantine

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#2544745 19-Aug-2020 21:39

Wow, it's been a crazy week. Went to see my little fella in the hospital, it's a sobering thing seeing a little kid in a hospital bed, especially when they are so miserable. Some more test results come tomorrow and then they will have a pretty reasonable idea what's going on.

I nearly cried for the first time in 30 years.... When I got the bill from the parking machine at the hospital!

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#2544772 19-Aug-2020 22:02

networkn:
Wow, it's been a crazy week. Went to see my little fella in the hospital, it's a sobering thing seeing a little kid in a hospital bed, especially when they are so miserable. Some more test results come tomorrow and then they will have a pretty reasonable idea what's going on.

I nearly cried for the first time in 30 years.... When I got the bill from the parking machine at the hospital!

Yes its really tough watching your child sick and feeling helpless. Kids are very resilient though and quite pragmatic often more than we give them credit for. Reading a story by their bedside can be a comfort and helps take your mind off the present too.

Look after yourself and don’t let your mind wander too far.

Best wishes for the youngster's speedy recovery.

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#2544830 19-Aug-2020 23:27

I came across a quote by the American poet Robert Frost, who wrote one of the most charming poems I have ever read: "The Road Not Taken".

The quote is not from the poem and since he died in 1963, stems from another time. However, it could have been written today.

"In three words, I can sum up everything I have learned about life. It goes on.

In all the confusions of today, with all our troubles...with politicians and people slinging the word

fear around, all of us become discouraged..tempted to say this is the end, the finish.

But life - it goes on. It always has. It always will.

Don't forget that."

For those not familiar with the poem itself, here it is:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.

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#2544831 19-Aug-2020 23:42

Geektastic:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And then there's the variant a friend of mine came up with while at Uni:

Three roads met in a wood

Two of them beat up the other one

And stole his yellow line

Shorter and easier to remember, but doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

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#2544908 20-Aug-2020 08:47

neb:
Geektastic:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And then there's the variant a friend of mine came up with while at Uni:

Three roads met in a wood
Two of them beat up the other one
And stole his yellow line

Shorter and easier to remember, but doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

The original sums up my life, not the alternative. Fortunately!

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#2545049 20-Aug-2020 10:59

networkn:

Wow, it's been a crazy week. Went to see my little fella in the hospital, it's a sobering thing seeing a little kid in a hospital bed, especially when they are so miserable. Some more test results come tomorrow and then they will have a pretty reasonable idea what's going on.

I nearly cried for the first time in 30 years.... When I got the bill from the parking machine at the hospital!

I think it's criminal that visitors are forced to pay for parking - especially at Starship of all places!

I was shocked when we visited our friends' newborn baby who had open heart surgery a few years back at how much it cost us. I dare say it's a lot more now.

If you're visiting family it shouldn't cost you anything.

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