Scary news this morning--UPDATE (not good) [View all]

Last edited Thu Apr 9, 2020, 06:45 AM - Edit history (1)

A member of the direct-care staff at my mom's nursing home (one who works on her wing) has tested positive for Corona virus.

The facility has been in lock-down (no visitors, no day-trips, etc) for a while now, and the staff have been wearing protective equipment for a few weeks.

There's no way my mom gets through this if she gets infected. She has considerable heart trouble and high blood pressure as well as Alzheimer's Disease. She's 86.

We're not going to tell Dad unless Mom gets ill. There's nothing he can do except worry.

I guess that's all I can do too.

Update: We got news yesterday that a patient on the ward w/ my mother tested positive...

...and at 3:00 am today, a call from the nursing home that Mom is having trouble breathing. She apparently has no fever as of yet, but has been put on oxygen treatment.