The effect of 2 years of lockdown...........Is anyone struggling?
JustPete
Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 303 Empowering
I thought I would write a little bit here, in the Coffee lounge, to see if i can catch people's attention.
25 months ago I was bluelighted to hospital (first time since a toddler) - I'd had 3 days of severe Diarrhoea and Doctors finally decided to call for an ambulance. I remember little of that night or the following week. I woke a week later in ICU and spent the next 3 weeks there. I discharged myself and spent 3 months at home recuperating. Then............COVID lockdowns and COVID waves and variants, masks on, masks off, do the hokey cokey and Boris is still about! So, 2 years on, I've recovered, lost alot of independence due to the hospitalisation.
The thing bothering me the most is the amount of spasm I have when I do go out. Not because of what people think, but I just struggle to get my body under control, can't drive my chair. The list goes on and is exhausting.
It's much easier to stay indoors. However, that solves nothing and I continually push myself to get out. I am an extremely confident person, but my body has lost that belief.
I was wondering if anyone else has had real life changing aspects that they put down to COVID.
Annotation: I am fine..........I wanted to share this to see if others might open-up about challenges and solutions.
25 months ago I was bluelighted to hospital (first time since a toddler) - I'd had 3 days of severe Diarrhoea and Doctors finally decided to call for an ambulance. I remember little of that night or the following week. I woke a week later in ICU and spent the next 3 weeks there. I discharged myself and spent 3 months at home recuperating. Then............COVID lockdowns and COVID waves and variants, masks on, masks off, do the hokey cokey and Boris is still about! So, 2 years on, I've recovered, lost alot of independence due to the hospitalisation.
The thing bothering me the most is the amount of spasm I have when I do go out. Not because of what people think, but I just struggle to get my body under control, can't drive my chair. The list goes on and is exhausting.
It's much easier to stay indoors. However, that solves nothing and I continually push myself to get out. I am an extremely confident person, but my body has lost that belief.
I was wondering if anyone else has had real life changing aspects that they put down to COVID.
Annotation: I am fine..........I wanted to share this to see if others might open-up about challenges and solutions.
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Sorry to hear about your experiences but I’m glad you’re confident and keep pushing yourself to go out.I had built a very small group of friends and was seeing them about once a month in a pub or for a walk in a park or something similar but since the lockdown stopped that for several months I haven’t felt able to go back and now my confidence seems back to square one.
I still keep in email contact with the friends but it would be nice to be able to go and see them again.0 -
I have got so used to staying in I can't motivate myself to go out
I make an effort when my bf is around to go out and if my son wants me to go anywhere
I have lost confidence to now go out on my own which I had started to do j6st in local area . This is more down to deterioration of my vision
I don't enjoy going places now when I can't see much and I have had few bumps and nearly.ended up under a bus as I went off the kerb in my chair as I didn't see the kerb0
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