Another aspect of this virus taking hold on a family member

[BSdetect]

You can't just go to help them especially i they live some distance away.

A friend's son is being tested today but he cannot go to help him.

If his son gets really sick he will not be able to comfort him easily if at all.

Imagine a loved one dying and being unable to be there for them.

[Siwsan]

1. I have several older and elderly cousins with a plethora of health issues.

Hopefully they all avoided contact with anyone having this virus, while at one of their multiple, recent visits to a doctor's office. If not, the rest of us are helpless to do anything. That is an awful feeling.

[cilla4progress]

2. We too

are looking at this fearful sad possibility.

[Bettie]

3. Meanwhile, my SIL

is merrily using this time to go from elderly relative to elderly relative, visiting throughout her state!

I do not understand Trumpkins.

[2naSalit]

4. Been processing that for at least a couple weeks...

My mom is in her 90s and in an assisted living place and nobody can go visit her. She was having respiratory problems last week, can't get her to answer her phone, she needs help holding it, and if she passes, she will pass alone. The one thing we have been trying to avoid to calm her fears. It sucks a lot.

And then I have a niece in CA who is an RN and in the center of the virus issue. I worry more for her because she has an adopted teenager and her mother would be devastated for a long time if something happened to her. And then her ,other is in self isolation and she is the executor of our mom's estate so she is informing our nephew of all the legal stuff and what the "game plan" is in case anything happens to her! And I'm 2K miles away with no means to travel even if I wanted to.

I'm a little more than a bit worried.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. That sits heavy on me every day.

Family is on West Coast, I'm here in the South, cannot travel at all.

Reality sucks.