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Sometimes I can't stop thinking about things that I've experienced from my parents. I remind myself of these things whenever I feel bad about not visiting them.

I want to relate a time when we had one of my husband's relatives here at our house to care for them during their hospice. They had arrived at our house in 2019, and so they were luckily already here when Covid started, and avoided the severe sickness and death running through elder and long term care facilities at the time.

We felt very lucky. They lived with us for over 4 years, and when they needed to have hospice healthcare workers come here to our house, we were vigilant about running a Corsi-Rosenthal box plus multiple HEPA filters, and having everyone wear decent masks. Our relative never caught Covid, and died of their long term illness as unfortunately was expected.

But my own family became upset that I wasn't visiting them. Even when I tried to explain that we had a fragile person in our house, going through hospice. Members of my family seemed to think I should be visiting them anyway, even though they did not protect themselves from Covid and were catching Covid repeatedly.

One of my parents told me that I was selfish. I was selfish! For wanting to protect the person going through hospice in my home. Because I didn't want to go visit with this parent who could have given me Covid and caused the death of my relative in hospice. Not to mention what Covid could do to me or my husband.

I was selfish, they said.

No wonder I have not gone to visit them. But I wish I could really absorb that, and stop feeling bad about not seeing them.

#Covid #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask

Sometimes I can't stop thinking about things that I've experienced from my parents. I remind myself of these things whenever I feel bad about not visiting them.

I want to relate a time when we had one of my husband's relatives here at our house to care for them during their hospice. They had arrived at our house in 2019, and so they were luckily already here when Covid started, and avoided the severe sickness and death running through elder and long term care facilities at the time.

We felt very lucky. They lived with us for over 4 years, and when they needed to have hospice healthcare workers come here to our house, we were vigilant about running a Corsi-Rosenthal box plus multiple HEPA filters, and having everyone wear decent masks. Our relative never caught Covid, and died of their long term illness as unfortunately was expected.

But my own family became upset that I wasn't visiting them. Even when I tried to explain that we had a fragile person in our house, going through hospice. Members of my family seemed to think I should be visiting them anyway, even though they did not protect themselves from Covid and were catching Covid repeatedly.

One of my parents told me that I was selfish. I was selfish! For wanting to protect the person going through hospice in my home. Because I didn't want to go visit with this parent who could have given me Covid and caused the death of my relative in hospice. Not to mention what Covid could do to me or my husband.

I was selfish, they said.

No wonder I have not gone to visit them. But I wish I could really absorb that, and stop feeling bad about not seeing them.

#Covid #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask

Sometimes I can't stop thinking about things that I've experienced from my parents. I remind myself of these things whenever I feel bad about not visiting them.

I want to relate a time when we had one of my husband's relatives here at our house to care for them during their hospice. They had arrived at our house in 2019, and so they were luckily already here when Covid started, and avoided the severe sickness and death running through elder and long term care facilities at the time.

We felt very lucky. They lived with us for over 4 years, and when they needed to have hospice healthcare workers come here to our house, we were vigilant about running a Corsi-Rosenthal box plus multiple HEPA filters, and having everyone wear decent masks. Our relative never caught Covid, and died of their long term illness as unfortunately was expected.

But my own family became upset that I wasn't visiting them. Even when I tried to explain that we had a fragile person in our house, going through hospice. Members of my family seemed to think I should be visiting them anyway, even though they did not protect themselves from Covid and were catching Covid repeatedly.

One of my parents told me that I was selfish. I was selfish! For wanting to protect the person going through hospice in my home. Because I didn't want to go visit with this parent who could have given me Covid and caused the death of my relative in hospice. Not to mention what Covid could do to me or my husband.

I was selfish, they said.

No wonder I have not gone to visit them. But I wish I could really absorb that, and stop feeling bad about not seeing them.

#Covid #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask

Sometimes I can't stop thinking about things that I've experienced from my parents. I remind myself of these things whenever I feel bad about not visiting them.

I want to relate a time when we had one of my husband's relatives here at our house to care for them during their hospice. They had arrived at our house in 2019, and so they were luckily already here when Covid started, and avoided the severe sickness and death running through elder and long term care facilities at the time.

We felt very lucky. They lived with us for over 4 years, and when they needed to have hospice healthcare workers come here to our house, we were vigilant about running a Corsi-Rosenthal box plus multiple HEPA filters, and having everyone wear decent masks. Our relative never caught Covid, and died of their long term illness as unfortunately was expected.

But my own family became upset that I wasn't visiting them. Even when I tried to explain that we had a fragile person in our house, going through hospice. Members of my family seemed to think I should be visiting them anyway, even though they did not protect themselves from Covid and were catching Covid repeatedly.

One of my parents told me that I was selfish. I was selfish! For wanting to protect the person going through hospice in my home. Because I didn't want to go visit with this parent who could have given me Covid and caused the death of my relative in hospice. Not to mention what Covid could do to me or my husband.

I was selfish, they said.

No wonder I have not gone to visit them. But I wish I could really absorb that, and stop feeling bad about not seeing them.

#Covid #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask