CONCLUSION

 CONCLUSION

February 2024

I've just watched 'Breathtaking' (ITV). It's made me very humbled and ashamed of how I felt during lock down.

In retrospect, I had it all. I had it easy. I wasn't ill. I wasn't dying. I didn't need medical treatment. I didn't have relatives/friends in care homes. I didn't have any children/grandchildren to look after.

All I had................. was myself (and my dog) in a very nice flat in Edinburgh. I was lonely. Very, very, lonely. But, that's all I was.

Looking back I had absolutely no idea how bad life was in the hospitals. It wasn't my life. It wasn't my world. I was OK.

Ignorance is bliss and I was very, very, ignorant. For the whole of lock down, I actually had no idea how bad things were. I watched the news most days (because I didn't have anything better to do) but the number of people dying, didn't mean that much to me, because I didn't personally know anyone who had died from Covid.

I was living in my own little isolated bubble and all I wanted..................... was for life to get back to normal ASAP.

March 2024

4 years after lock down and I'd still like to publish my story because it was how I felt at the time. 4 years on and I realise, I don't actually have a story to tell.

I am one of the lucky ones. I'm still alive.

Postscript

I eventually tested positive for COVID on Sunday 26th March 2023. I was pretty much the only person I knew that hadn't had it. Lol!

I'd been out with the girlies, 8 days previously, and one had tested positive the day after. I spent the following week, testing practically every day, but all tests came back negative. By the Thurs/Fri of the following week, however, I was feeling really ill (flu type symptoms), but was still struggling into work. Worked on the Sat afternoon and did a test when I came home. Negative. Woke up on Sunday morning feeling loads better, but did a test, 'just in case' because I was going out for lunch with a vulnerable 82 yr old....................... And guess what?..  It was positive. A big red line was there for all to see.

After that, I was told to stay off work for 5 days. By then, I was absolutely fine so myself and Trixie went off on some little adventures together.

By the time I tested positive; I'm pretty sure that I wasn't actually 'positive' anymore. But, in the lead up to my 'positive COVID test' (when I was testing negative), I'm pretty sure that I must have had COVID and unknowingly infected a lot of people who came into the shop where I was working.

Monday 5 January 2026

A story forgotten can never be retold and it's taken almost 6 years for me to get my story, 'My Life in Lockdown', out there.  Being isolated for so long, changed my life forever and I still refer to events being before or after lockdown.

I am now 'living the dream' in St Ives, Cornwall, with my gorgeous little Collie, Trixie.


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