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Originally Posted by Moose72
RE: Pharmacy pickups, I just called my pharmacy- small mom & pop place- to see when my meds would be ready. I am going to run out in 3 days. They said they'd be ready for pick up tomorrow morning. So I'll just zip in there, grab them and zip out. There is almost never a line- just sometimes one person in front of me, but even that is rare.
~Christina, I hope you feel better! What you described about your tongue sounds most unpleasant!
I'm worried about my mom catching the virus because she gets things worse than most people when its just a regular virus. She has COPD or something like that. Plus she's 73 in a few weeks. She's not in a nursing home; she still lives in her own home with her husband who is 60. She brought me some sweat shirts from Disney World. I dunno what to do with them. I already picked them up and put them on the back of my recliner. She commented, when she was here a bit ago that I look like I've lost weight. Well with a little more walking plus I'm not eating a lot. I'm just eating when hungry or if I get a not-eaten headache kind of thing so save the little food we have. Noah on the other hand is still at Sharlene's. I argued with him this morning about going over there in general. Her mother still goes back and forth to work and I don't know anything about her work. And yesterday, two of my lunch friends (well friends in general, but that's where we met) went out to a restaurant for lunch. I said I wasn't going because I'm low on money which is true, but I also didn't want to drive half an hour each way and waste my gas just to expose myself to people at a restaurant. I asked one of them how the lunch went and she said it went well. All of that said, I'm getting tired of being afraid all the time. I don't have a pdoc appointment until the end of April. And I don't have a T at the moment. If push comes to shove, I wonder if pdoc can just do a phone session. It would be a little weird, but it would work. And crossing fingers and toes that I stay stable for as long as possible! I wonder what psych hospitals are doing with all this. Talk about social distancing with people who aren't at their tip top shape to begin with!
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Supposedly coronavirus can last up to 9 days on a surface, but some doctors suggest that maybe it's only a few hours or a few days (much like SARS). So if your sweatshirts do have coronavirus particles on them, you can wear them in 9 days if you want to be completely safe.
Here is a good article that talks about it lasting from a few hours to up to 9 days:
Coronaviruses: How long can they survive on surfaces?
As for psych hospitals—yeah, it's likely you could get sick there. I doubt they will ban visitors, since it is not a nursing home, skilled nursing facility, etc.. But as I said to BirdDancer, all it takes is one nurse to get sick and "spread the wealth."
I suppose you could demand hand sanitizer before eating or taking pills? But I suppose you're still at risk anyways if someone coughs in your face, so there's that...