The effect of 2 years of lockdown...........Is anyone struggling?

JustPete
JustPete Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 303 Empowering
edited November 2021 in Coffee lounge
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.

Comments

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 14,984 Championing
    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.
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Community member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    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 kerb 

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