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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy trip to Seattle is cancelled...
...my MIL and SILs are uncomfortable with our visiting and we can't see a way to do it without wearing masks in their presences 25/7. Bottom line is my wife will likely not see her mother in person for more than a year.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,754 posts)But to keep everyone safe, this is what must be done.
RandySF
(59,542 posts)He is 85 and has COPD, so we would kill him if we brought COVID into his house.
Ms. Toad
(34,119 posts)Any chance of staying in a hotel & getting together in open air spaces for a few hours at a time? Why not wear masks? (No one gets in our house, aside from the three of us & my daughter's infusion specialist. Too risky.)
I haven't seen my parents since February/March - and they only live an hour and a half away. Their extended care community is quarantined. No one gets in. If they go out, they can't go back in.
They have just started allowing 2-hour outdoor visits with no food & no hugs.
The up side is that they have only had one COVID case there - an employee. No resident cases.
Talitha
(6,634 posts)applegrove
(118,869 posts)could do things like send a book a month as a surprize. I got my dad "far side" cartoins that i hope he can enjoy. Think out of the box (literally) of new ways to connect. Vibes to you. I know it is not easy.
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)I call her every day and do facetime. It is really worth doing. We can see each other and have shared more conversation than we have for years. It is always hard to have a conversation when the whole family is gathered (there are lots of us).
I told her I was calling for my sake not to check up on her. Turned out it has been very good for both of us.
Share lots of pictures of the kids or pets (and yourselves).
We are lucky that technology allows us to see and talk so easily.
It had to have been worse in 1918.
Initech
(100,118 posts)And I don't know when / if I will get to take them any time soon. I feel you, though. This really sucks.
RockRaven
(15,051 posts)My sibling lives <5 miles (a 10 min surface street drive) from our parents, but they haven't seen each other in person in 4+ months. Both parties are agreed upon refraining because our parents are in the dangerous age range... It's not worth the miniscule risk, assuming -- as we hope -- that we will have more time together in the future.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)to visit me this summer. I was suppose to visit family in fall. Both my sons really want to visit with me and enjoy the area I live in, I haven't seen them for a year. It was suppose to happen this summer. They won't do it.
Lots of people are experiencing this.
Now, I am hearing from all, and almost daily thru text, calls and that works.
greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)My wife and I usually go visit my mother
and sisters down in FL around now. We drive
because of our dogs.
No visit this year.
MFM008
(19,827 posts)I live 45 minutes from Seattle and I wouldnt go there.