Tell Those Sick People to Go Home

March 2020 who would have ever thought we would have a pandemic that literally shut down the country!  I can't say it's anything any of us could have ever predicted.

I remember it was around March 8th when we got a phone call from the facility telling us that we could not visit my MIL as they were "locking down" the home due to COVID-19.  They told us we could face time her or call her but they were not allowing visitors.  The difficulty for us is that my MIL doesn't understand the technology.  It's difficult to keep her attention long enough for a call or to even sit still long enough for the call.

Mother's day we went to see her and asked if the nurses would allow her to come outside in the courtyard.  We stood on the other side of the fence which we could see through and talked to her.  She tried to climb the fence to come on our side and did not understand that we had to maintain proper social distance of six feet.  She kept asking us if we were going to come in to visit and when we told her we couldn't she kept asking why.  We would explain that we didn't want to get anyone sick due to the Corona virus and she said "well, all those sick people can just go home."

The nursing home tested all the residents and thank goodness no one tested positive.  Alzheimer's and a pandemic are a recipe for disaster.