My older sister who is retired has taken on the task of making a grocery/meds/whatever run to Mom's once a week. (of course she would do something in-between if needed).... and they have a system where Mom leaves open the back of a suburban with the garage door open and my sister loads them in. Then Mom can take them out as needed and for the frig'd stuff, she wipes everything down with the clorox wipes. She use to wipe the other stuff too, but I told her that since she wasn't waiting till she was out, she could just leave the other stuff out there for some days without taking them in ...blah blah blah..... Mom takes in the mail and she "thinks" she has a system on that took but I told her with mail being mostly porous, wiping it down may or may not be helpful. Since her bills are never behind and nothing else is important, she needs to just let it sit and maybe open each day after it is 5 days old or so..... and of course washing hands after. She still has a good mind, but of course, with all the stress at home, it would be easy to over look something..... jeepers.... no way ot know how to handle everything.... .but she's trying ....I know, I know, everyone is dealing with it.... with the exception of the ones that are not....LOL ! People !! When it comes to my life and the lives of those I love, I'm chosing to err on the side of caution. I still wish there was a solution for her situation. There was an older gentleman that was coming twice a week so she could get away before this happen and he didn't think there was much to the covid thing and wanted to keep comeing, but she was afraid to let him. sigh..... and I would have been too, so I think she made the right decision.....in the way of covid.
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She made the right decision. Indeed. Especially if he is giving respite care and thinks nothing about maintaining,
The mail is something you and I talked about before. I couldn't believe how many people don't think about how many hands touch it before you get it and nobody knows how long it could be contaminated.
Even groceries, the most careful people are wearing gloves and masks to the stores and the plopping those things in the cabinet. There will be an end to all of this or we will carve out a new normal. In the meantime, your mom is in my thoughts and prayers.
xoxo
Yeah... I wear masks and gloves to the store and leave the non frig things in the bags over at the piano for days. I always clear two shelves in the frig before my grocery trip to quarantine the new stuff on, taking care to clean anything I want to use soon.
Thank you, the more prayers for Mom the better. Bless Tommy's heart.
XOXO Indeed.