Self-Isolation Day #44

Sunday, Self-Isolation Day #44

We request continued prayers for my husband's mother D. She has been sick with COVID-19 for a month (now negative, but still sick), alone in the hospital for nearly that long, and is now on her second stretch of being on a ventilator in order to give her lungs support for longer while they heal.

Although David learned how to stump around on his cast, it exhausts him and it makes him need pain medication sooner, so we bought him a little tricycle to zoom around the downstairs. It arrived today and was absolutely delightful! A lot of the tiny tot riding devices we looked at would not have worked with a cast or would have spread his legs too far apart or would not have steered well, but this one seems perfect.

David calls it "mine best bike ever!" (he says mine for my). If you so much as look at it, he will warn you, "Don't ride mine bike! Don't ring the bell!"

Big Sister affixed a basket to the tricycle so that David can wheel around his doll Frankie or any other small treasures.

For Sunday, we enjoyed a special breakfast cooked by Chris, I got in some reading time, and we participated in Mass as best as we could under these strange lockdown circumstances.

Dressing up for watching the Mass

Chris took us to a favorite drive-through for Sunday supper and we sat outside enjoying the beautiful weather while the children played outdoors after rosary (over Facetime with his mom in the hospital, as Chris tries to arrange daily).

Bonus Reading for Posterity:

• Yesterday I shared data about our neighboring state of Georgia (seeming to be past its peak) and today I share similar data for another neighboring state, South Carolina. Thank goodness for great news, right? (New Projections Show SC Past COVID-19 Peak, Death Toll Estimates Decline) South Dakota also seems well past its peak and that state never shut down, knowing that it was about as different from New York City as a geography could be. (South Dakota Has “Flattened the Curve” Without Shutting Down) 
• "The absolute worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic, and possibly its most unrecoverable damage, is the massive power that Americans have given to their federal, state and local governments to regulate our lives in the name of protecting our health. Taking back that power should be the most urgent component of our recovery efforts. It’s going to be challenging; once a politician, and his bureaucracy, gains power, he will fight tooth and nail to keep it." (Benefits VS. Costs And COVID-19) 
• I'm hearing of more and more temporary hospitals being dismantled which saw very few or no patients. (Houston Looking at Dismantling $17M Temp Hospital That Didn't See a Single Patient) This is distressing in the face of wildly wrong projections (that were already overblown taking into account the lockdown), so much health care delayed or denied because of closed hospitals, and healthcare workers who have lost their jobs. (Instead Of ‘Flattening The Curve,’ We Flattened Hospitals, Doctors, And The U.S. Health Care System)