This morning we actually our clinic finished early so I was able to stop for the minutes silence as this is the first official anniversay of Lockdown. We stopped to remember 126,000+ deaths through Covid, but also so many others who have died of un-related causes, yet have no services, So many who have suffered in so many ways. For the first
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I know what you mean about being glad that your parents are no longer here. My sister said, after the first month or so of the lockdown last year, that she was glad Mum had died before it as "She would have been so confused by us not visiting."
To be honest I didn't agree with her reasoning - our mother was not confused about things until her final hours when she was barely conscious. But I did totally agree with the feeling of gladness because I knew that, actually, without us visiting she would have spent her time worrying about US becoming ill or her cousins, or her favourite members of the nursing home staff if she didn't see them for a day or two, and so on.
Our parents were a generation who survived war - but at least they were able to live their lives out between the global pandemics of 1918 and 2020 and for that I am very glad.
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I think Mum would have found it hard to accept that people couldn't visit ... if she was symptom free, and they were, so would hate to have not seen Nick & Tim, even though they didn't visit all that often.
They had some tough years without pandemics - National Strike & WWII ... so, maybe we have things better when you think of those disaters.
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