I said this to my mum yesterday as I walked back from the pharmacy after going to pick up my prescriptions, after having my doctors appointment over the phone for the first time ever. Because, in the last 10 days or so, life has changed beyond all recognition. We're living a life and world that most of us have never seen anything like, and hopefully will never see anything like again.
For anyone reading this who isn't sure what I'm talking about, I am living in the UK in the middle of a pretty serious viral epidemic. The virus in question is 'Coronavirus'. A word I had never heard before but is now part of my every day vocabulary, as it appears to now be all I can talk about. Anyway. Last night in the UK we were given new instructions about what we can or can't do during this. We're not quite on a full on 'lock down' as yet, but it's pretty close to one. The issue we seem to be having in the UK right now is that not many people are paying attention to the new rules.
My current situation is;
- I'm a key worker. I work as a carer so I'm still going back and forth to work.
- I can leave the house for exercise once a day.
- I can go shopping for essential food or medicine items.
I've decided to open this blog back up because I think this time period needs to be documented in as many ways as possible. The more I document how I felt when I couldn't go out, the more appreciative I hope I'lll be of the world again when I can go back out. I suffer from social anxiety going out can be really difficult for me, to the point I can already easily go 2-3 days without leaving the house. In the last two years, going outside and doing things has been essential to my mental health recovery journey and I'm not sure how well I will cope now that that has been taken away from me, and no one knows when the right to come and go freely will be given back to us.
Anyway, that's it for now.
Stay safe, Rosie x
