Grateful #covid19

 Good day All,

I am not a COVID-19 survivor... I'm sort of trying to out-run it... Trying to hide from it... If that makes any sense!

I'm hugely grateful for not having contracted the dreaded disease up to now. We've had some pretty close calls and scares, but by the grace of God stayed clear and mostly healthy.

I've been able to attend a funeral or 2 of some who were not so lucky and with the last one I was sitting in the Church and just had a thought to ask my close family and friends to also please be careful and do everything they can to not get the virus... And to definitely not die as a result of it (as if onw has a choice in the matter! 🙄)... Because you can't even attend your own funeral should you die from COVID19!!

Stupid thought I know... 😏🤫🙈

At the start of lockdown most people were cautious when going outside... When schools reopened, proper screening was done and kids were kept at home for the slightest cough and fever... Nowadays - and without being vaccinated - some schools seem to have become quite ignorant.

We drove past a few schools recently and all that is being done, is sanitizing... No proper screening. And my concern is that we're not out of the woods yet... People still die of COVID-19!!

I'm concerned for our elderly people... Some too scared to go to a doctor when they start feeling ill as they would rather "die at home than in a hospital"...

I realize there were times that I've been negligent and not as careful as I should've been, but more grateful that I stayed COVID-19 free.

From conversations I had with some survivors, I learned this disease has a huge psychological impact on a person. Whether I'd be strong enough to survive it, I do not know. But I pray that the totals of infections will become less and that even less people will succumb to it.

I thank God for family and friends who are still with us... I thank Him for all His mercy upon my own life.

I pray that a day... A week... A month... A year from now, I'd be able to look at this post and be even more grateful.

#StaySafe

Shallasown

#Eskom. #loadshedding

Ha-a...!!!

Eskom issie n plan nie...

I'm going back!

Back into time!

Waar koop mens die items?? 

Ek meen ma'... 

'n Uur na ek by huis aankom gaan die krag af... 

Wanneer ek moet opstaan... Is die krag af... 

Wanneer moet mens dan nou klere stryk en n kossie maak?? 

Lekker dag my mensies

#Shallasown

Howzit!?

This is the kind of crazy random thoughts one has when you battle to sleep...

Enjoy

#Shallasown

As I'm waiting on a train at the station one morning, a young guy approached me and said "Ma, het Ma nie vir my 'n R3.00 vir 'n ticket nie?" (Don't you have a R3.00 for a ticket"). 

I could see he is a beggar but not the ones genuinely in need for food etc. I said I don't have - cause I really didn't have any extra money and he walked on to the next person. The guy he asked is a foreigner and he gave him a R10.00.

As this young one came back he had to pass me again and I asked with a laugh why he's lying to people; cause he clearly has no intention of buying a ticket with that money.

He obviously denied it and told me he was just not in a hurry to buy the ticket just then... but he does need the money urgently as he plans on going somewhere later today to attend a party.... 🙄🤔🤦

Have a lovely day Luvies
#Shallasown

 

Pictures thanks to #google_search

Life... as I know and experience it...: Rhino......gitis....???

Life... as I know and experience it...: Rhino......gitis....???: My 10-year old son has not been feeling well for a few days and at one point accused me of not caring about him... just because I didn't...

Rhino......gitis....???

My 10-year old son has not been feeling well for a few days and at one point accused me of not caring about him... just because I didn't take him to the doctor...
I thought the medicine I'm giving him would do the trick!

This was during a time the school was having their Revue... for 6 nights this year and I know they're all extremely tired and that could add to him not feeling so perky.

Then one afternoon he told me that his neck "pulled stiff" at school and the secretary put an ice-pack on... which helped a little. But then he complained that his class teacher also didn't care much as she didn't really respond when he mentioned it to her afterwards... So me and Teacher were very much in the same league of "not-caring-adults"!

Eventually I asked my husband who was at home, to take him to the doctor as he kept saying he's not feeling good. I went to work as usual and when I got home the evening, I had a look at the medical certificate and when I saw the diagnosis, I felt like the worst mom ever!

RHINOPHARYNGITIS!!!

"Dear Lord! Is my child dying??"... was my first thought! And why on earth didn't my husband phone me when he got the feedback from the doctor??!!! A disease with that name can only be extremely serious.... Or is it not??

So I decided to consult doctor Google before I had a total fit...

Rhinopharyngitis is nothing but a "Common Cold"...

PHEW!!!! What a relief!

But did the doctor really have to put that terrible name on the certificate?

Anyway... my boy is doing fine... and feeling better day by day!

Be good and stay safe...

Luvies

#Shallasown ♥

Have a good day.... 19 January 2017