Day to day

 It's easy to make life sound like it's hell or the apocalypse is happening, neither is true, but life really is bizarre and a bit scary right now.

Currently California is pretty much out of ICU hospital beds, this means regardless of Covid if you break a leg or have a heart attack you will be hard pressed to easily find help. Also southern California reported today that hospitals are having a hard time keeping up with oxygen demands in their hospitals. As I stated before we are being VERY careful so we don't need to seek out care. 

Our home life is normal mostly, the big change is that our home life is our ONLY life. Everything is either closed down, limited, or not safe to go into. My husband offered to take me with him to his doctors appointment just to get me out of the house, I couldn't go because of my period....but that would've been my "big" voyage out; sitting in a parking lot and riding back and forth to and from the appointment.

I've started a running list of everything I WILL do once I get vaccinated, dreaming is keeping me from going too stir crazy. I dream of a road trip down Route 66, and eating pretzels from Auntie Anne's Pretzels. I really NEED to seek out a Chiropractor so that will be first (no  docs are taking new patients at all because of covid), but I have a ton of other plans and ideas floating through my head. First will be a dinner out, then the Chiropractor.

Other parts of the country aren't under stay at home orders (it varies by state or county) so I'm sure all of this would sound weird to them, but this is life in California right now; We are all ordered to be home. They say once we get the vaccine we will need "Vaccination Passports" to show once things open up, no passport= no entry into public space like restaurants . It's all very bizarre, but I understand why. They say maybe in April we'll get that, the waiting is hard, but we've been home for 10 months now, whats another 4?

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