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I started this blog as a chronicle of the lockdown, but it’s now officially about our family’s experience of the disease too. A junior doctor called me yesterday about 5 pm to tell me that Mum’s last swab was positive and she is now on a covid ward (Hasland Ward) and needing a little moreContinue reading “Juliet, Holloway, 29 April 2020”

I varied my walking route today because it’s raining and I wouldn’t have been able to sit on the bench outside Dethick church to write this. I went up around Lea Gardens, which we used to know as the Rhododendron Gardens. They are perfect at the moment, but no one is around to see them.Continue reading “Juliet, Holloway, 28 April 2010”

Back to the daily second-hand reporting on Mum. She’s essentially fine, barring the usual blood sugar requirements and need for oxygen, says today’s nurse, but they want to be 100% sure she’s covid-negative before the next course of action. So we are awaiting the swab results. Dad is fine. He doesn’t seem to have aContinue reading “Juliet, Holloway, 27 April 2020”

Just phoned the hospital and tracked Mum down in Pearson Ward at Chesterfield Royal Infirmary She’s on oxygen and going to be seen by the consultant this morning. She’s also had her third swab in 5 weeks for coronavirus. The last two were negative and she didn’t have any particular signs of Covid-19 when sheContinue reading “Juliet, Holloway, 26 April 2020”

No news from the battle front this morning. The district nurse goes in first thing to deal with the insulin injection so now Mum and Dad will be getting up, hopefully having breakfast and getting settled for the day. Dad hasn’t phoned, so no immediate panic. It would be good to have a day withoutContinue reading “Juliet, Holloway, 25 April 2020”