Once Upon A March

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Silverbloggers March Madness Blog of the Month Challenge

Hello, hive friends! I am encouraged to participate in the #BOM for Silverbloggers after lurking a bit to see what themes are being discussed. I am going to crawl back to March 2020 when everything familiar became unfamiliar.

I wasn't an early adapter to the hysteria of the pandemic and I hate change. When things began heating up in Pennsylvania with the pandemic our governor, Tom Wolfe, said that nonessential workers couldn't work any longer. Many of my colleagues quickly opted into the work-from-home home deal, although the employer didn't offer any compensation for internet usage. I was single at that time and my cable coverage came with a data cap.

I dug my heels in and looked for some assurance that if/when I was forced out of the office, I wouldn't be stuck with a big bill. Eventually, we were told we could no longer work in the office. The best compensation for me was since I was second to last in the office to go home, the office had run out of wired headsets. I got sent home with a sweet Jabra noise-canceling wireless headset. I've already been warned if it needs replacing I'm going to be getting a wired one going forward. You bet I'm praying every day this headset lasts until I retire!

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Being forced to work from home felt like a prison. I came out, decades before 2020, of an abusive marriage. I had no choice in that marriage to work, or leave the home and isolation was not something I ever desired to return to. There I sat, day after day in my bedroom working, taking phone calls from the office desk beside my bed. I spent 8.5 hours a day working and several a few feet from the bedroom door only to return once again to sleep there. The room I worked from needed a door to be private per my health insurance industry.

I can't describe my emotional response to this forced isolation. I tend to be an introvert, and forcing seclusion again pushed me into a mental vacuum and into the darkness of the past where I had no choice but to stay home in the country. I know that I began to experience panic attacks and suffer from sleeplessness. I avoided the news and constant ticker tapes on how many new covid cases there were how many deaths, and so on.

I returned to my faith and began seeking God again for assurance and balance in a time of utter upheaval. That March was like a wrecking ball to my peace and my brain. It did put some things into perspective for me and gave me a greater appreciation for all that I had, including an income that many people were suffering a loss of. I never lost a paycheck over the pandemic.

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This is my contribution to the Silverbloggers March Madness challenge and my first official post in the community. I joined the channel some time ago and hadn't decided what I would share. I began using #leothreads recently and joined the Silverbloggers discord channel. Special thanks for the warm welcome from several in the community. I hope you enjoy my contribution and Happy March to all!

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It surely help me appreciate the abundance I have. The time was stressful but provided valuable life lessons.

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Thank you for the welcome and I'm happy the isolation part ended! I have been blessed with a great husband.

!ALIVE

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Thank you for sharing this part of your private life with us. I am glad you found a way to cope @wandrnrose7🙏

You are a strong person!

Even after those of us who lived through the pandemic are no longer alive, I believe ramifications [of the pandemic] will continue to be felt by future generations.

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I am happy to hear about your rant because I had similar thoughts. My dad did get COVID and double pneumonia. He was in the hospital for several months, but we're fortunate the remdisivir that they gave him didn’t kill him. The double pneumonia was the worst thing. In his 50s he had heart surgery, so because he was having heart issues
they moved him so far from home.

He was completely isolated 2 hours away from his wife and no one was allowed to visit him. We would call him and talk to him but he was not allowed to talk back because he had no oxygen. He began failing because of depression and being isolated from his family. Thank God that his doctor had mercy and decided to allow his wife to visit him.

He's doing well now and winters in Arizona and comes back to Pennsylvania for summer.

At one time during the pandemic he wrote me a letter when I was dating Jeff, my fiance at the time, who is conservative and felt he was why I wasn't getting the shot. He had healed from COVID and felt it was important for me but I was very disappointed and that letter security was the first one I ever received from my father, so for be about that of all things depressed me!

I had to make requests a religious exemption regarding the injunction or I was pending to be fired from my job. I am so grateful that I did not cave. I was willing and prepared to quit.

I'm glad you made it through well but I think all of us were drastically effected and one way or another.
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I'm so sorry you suffered like that, and more than once in your lifetime! I did not know you met your sweetie so recently - what a gift!

I argued against the covid measures (which did far more harm than covid) right from the beginning, saying they would harm the disadvantaged, the very populations we were supposedly trying most to protect, more than the upper middle class and above. That the measures were racist and discriminatory. But the fear factor won out, and we all lost, all of us, not just those relatively few of us who got covid, or whatever it was that was making people sick and killing them. I no longer even believe it was a virus.

I could easily have gotten as freaked out as you did. I am elderly, and at the time I was caring for a severely disabled and chronically ill person. Had I been cooped up with him, I would have gone south fast. But instead, I called all my friends and asked if they were social distancing. I found several who were not, hung out with them, invited them over for dinner, did not sanitize a single thing, did not wear a mask except to go to banks and such, did not worry about my son getting it. And guess what? He didn't, even when I had something virus-like and took no precautions when I did stuff for him. The whole thing was a sham. A terrible hoax that hopefully we will not fall for again.

Sorry to rant on your post!

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Hello, Janelle!

That March of 2020 when they decreed the quarantine was a real madness, and isolation affected many. I remember that my mother who lived alone was on the verge of depression because we spent a few months without being able to see her.

I am sorry that you went through such difficulties that reminded you of difficult times in the past. Fortunately, we are past those hard months of the quarantine, and I know that life has turned around for you, I remember you told me that you had recently remarried. So now it's time to live to the fullest and make up for those months of isolation.

Welcome "formally" to Silver Bloggers:) And thank you for joining the BOM.

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Yay! Thank you so much 💓
!ALIVE
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What a bummer. The pandemic took its toll on many people, myself included. We went for months not seeing our children and especially our grandchildren, the youngest baby still in her infancy, seemed to grow before my eyes on the computer screen, I longed to hug her.
I hope you are managing better now, too much stress can sure keep you down.

Feel good!
Hugs 🤗

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I'm doing better personally, but two close family members are deeply struggling physically & emotionally.

I had a month with the illness in February of 2021 and thankfully healed without long-term symptoms like both of them. It was an awful month and I had no energy or appetite and dropped weight, I think I developed a pretty good immunity to it because I haven't gotten sick since. We chose not to get the shot , though my job was threatening me if I didn't.

I understand how you feel about being separated from the family. We never completely closed ourselves off and still celebrated Christmas. I just hope they never tried to do this same thing again.

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The covid made us understand many things and made us change our way of seeing the world. for sure we will have many stories to tell and it is good that you are writing down your story for future generations, it is good that you are safe now.

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I agree, it did change a lot. I have two family members struggling seriously post covid. I pray a lot more than I was before. Thank you for stopping by and sharing your thoughts.
!ALIVE

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Those were hard times for sure. Even with a large family, we felt so isolated. At times you didn't what the heck to believe. Conspiracy theorists were out in full numbers, and some of what they said carried some weight. Being retired at the time and living in a very rural area was a blessing of sorts.

Isolation can play tricks on the mind and becoming depressed is usually right around the corner.

Let's hope that better days are here to stay for a while.

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We are pretty isolated, too. Fortunately, our county wasn't near as strict with everything as the local cities were. I know a brief trip to Florida after the Pandemic helped my brain recover.
Thank you for stopping in.
!ALIVE

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How often I reflected to people in small accommodation, especially with children, the whole scenario being extremely critical to the well being of those locked up. Here you mention exactly what I thought, trust your health and mental balance is now in a much better place.

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Yes,I often thought of people with young children who had been cooped up. My mental health is much better now. The Bible says all things work together for good, so even that trial worked something good from the stress.

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Many have lost trust in those who are supposed to protect us, domino effect on children's well being will be around for years to come in development.

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I agree. I am seeing it already in the grandkids and my own children.
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...when everything familiar became unfamiliar.

That it certainly did!

I can imagine how difficult it must have been when you were stuck on your own, but you made it!
Many did not survive the ramifications of Covid, physically and mentally.

Welcome to our community and thank you for your participation @wandrnrose7 🤗

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We did make it, and wiser for it. We have also learned coping/survival techniques. I think mostly it taught us to appreciate our family, health, and freedoms.
Thank you for the welcome and I hope to find more time to read and participate here!
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I'm sorry you had to go through that, but glad you made it out to the other side. I'm from a not-so-nice corner of the state (which we won't name), and I remember the Governer's announcement and seeing the empty streets.

I was lucky in a way, in that I found out about the coming pandemic early back in late Nov/ early Dec 2019. I'd been planning to go to China for a fellowship, and was researching the country when I saw the alert on a US expat message board.

I tried to warn freinds and family, but no one would listen. So I was able to purchase all the PPE I needed back when no one was buying any. Later on people got jealous and angry that I had supplies after the stores quit selling them. But hey, I warned you and we all had the same chance to get them, but they refused.

So glad we're about done with that. Until the next one...

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That was definitely an advantage and I read up on a lot during the pandemic and warned many of things to look for and avoid, if and when they could, but they all thought I was crazy, too. Now all of this is coming to light. I don't want to think of a next time. Thanks for reading and commenting.
!ALIVE

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