For what they are worth, I'm going to give my thoughts on this. They do closely mirror what someone else said, but they are a result of my own experience.
When the Pandemic first struck, my wife's grandmother was a healthy and hale 99 year old woman.
My wife and I convinced her that she should limit her exposure to other people. So she…
For what they are worth, I'm going to give my thoughts on this. They do closely mirror what someone else said, but they are a result of my own experience.
When the Pandemic first struck, my wife's grandmother was a healthy and hale 99 year old woman.
My wife and I convinced her that she should limit her exposure to other people. So she did. She generally limited herself to myself and my wife, one of my daughters, and my granddaughter.
My wife and I, in turn, tried to be quite careful in our own lives, so as to not pick it up and end up giving it to her.
On rare occasions, some other family would come visit on the porch.
I don't think that she was feeling deprived of family visiting, but I do know that she was feeling extremely deprived by not being able to go places. She wanted to just go once in awhile. Get an ice cream, browse a store, that kind of thing. She just wasn't able to do what she wanted to do, out of the house, and she missed that stuff quite a lot.
But it worked. She never got Covid.
But she died while Covid was still raging anyway.
Not a Covid death, not anything unexpected, she was just 99, and when you are 99 things are worn out.
So, over worries of Covid, her last months were not as happy as they could have been. She could have gone out, done all that she wanted to do. The very worst that would have happened is that she would have gotten Covid and died a few days or weeks earlier than she died anyway. But she would have been happier before she did.
For what they are worth, I'm going to give my thoughts on this. They do closely mirror what someone else said, but they are a result of my own experience.
When the Pandemic first struck, my wife's grandmother was a healthy and hale 99 year old woman.
My wife and I convinced her that she should limit her exposure to other people. So she did. She generally limited herself to myself and my wife, one of my daughters, and my granddaughter.
My wife and I, in turn, tried to be quite careful in our own lives, so as to not pick it up and end up giving it to her.
On rare occasions, some other family would come visit on the porch.
I don't think that she was feeling deprived of family visiting, but I do know that she was feeling extremely deprived by not being able to go places. She wanted to just go once in awhile. Get an ice cream, browse a store, that kind of thing. She just wasn't able to do what she wanted to do, out of the house, and she missed that stuff quite a lot.
But it worked. She never got Covid.
But she died while Covid was still raging anyway.
Not a Covid death, not anything unexpected, she was just 99, and when you are 99 things are worn out.
So, over worries of Covid, her last months were not as happy as they could have been. She could have gone out, done all that she wanted to do. The very worst that would have happened is that she would have gotten Covid and died a few days or weeks earlier than she died anyway. But she would have been happier before she did.