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[Ms. Toad]

47. It will open eventually -

and that's the way my grandmother (who lived through the 1918 pandemic) handled her toenails when my mother wasn't available.

It's hard. My parents (in their 80s) are in an extended care community that has been split into three communities as a result of the pandemic. They have no cases so far - but my parents (still living independently within the community) are cut off from friends they were encouraged to help care for - and my mother is cut off from swimming (a lifeline for her). We haven't seen them since the end of February (just before Kendal closed the campus). My father has stopped talking about when this passes, and has resigned himself to living with this threat fort the rest of his life.

On the bright side, they let my mother return to campus after an eye injection (the nearly immediate rule was if you leave campus you can't come back). So she is happy for a teeny tiny bit of freedom.

It's maybe a new normal - but do you have folks you can zoom-chat with?