Being sick with a common cold in the age of covid comes with a lot of feels. What was once a minor inconvenience is now a week-long emotional roller coaster with added trials of covid testing, contact tracing, and if you’re a parent, the mayhem of supervising a quarantined student while trying to work from home. Good luck!
Episode Highlights:
00:40 Before school started I had an intense fear and dread for the eventual covid exposure shut down. Now that I’ve been through one, I still have these feelings.
00:55 Kids are germ factories – how did I think this was going to turn out? Of course, we were all sick within 14 days of school starting!
01:40 My joy was through the roof for my kid starting school, but it was also for myself, to finally have time for me and what I want and need to do.
02:00 My daughter starting school showed me how much I was getting done in the gaps.
03:15 As my husband and I simultaneously showed the same symptoms as my daughter, we knew we were all sick – but with what?
03:50 The number of mental gymnastics we undertook trying to figure out where we caught our cold was next level and something we never would have thought about two years ago.
05:20 Then we get the dreaded call… “Come get your kid, she’s been exposed to someone who has covid.”
06:00 Having our child quarantined at home disrupted all three of the adults’ schedules who live here because amazingly in the mere 2 weeks since she started school, our calendars are full.
07:00 I have so much sympathy for EVERYONE right now because this is the level of craziness that we’re dealing with pretty much constantly as a collective.
07:45 How do we as a society function when having a slight tickle to your throat and a cough can plunge you into the five stages of grief as you cope with all the hurdles you have to jump now?
09:00 My frustration at the lack of convenient and available covid testing is high, and I’m furious at the unavailability of rapid tests to buy on my own dime, too.
11:20 In the thick of it, there was no outlet for the frustration and fear, I just had to hold onto it until the moment passed.
12:00 The child covid quarantine means you’re constantly trying to figure out what thing you have in your house will distract your kid long enough to get 5 minutes of uninterrupted work done.
13:20 It feels like at this point in time we’re in a mad dash to dodge all of the sicknesses but it’s an impossible game to win.
13:30 Being sick seems so much more consequential than it did two years ago.
15:00 I don’t want to dissuade my kid from using logic to figure out who was her exposure contact, but at the same time want to impart that we don’t ever judge a kid for getting sick or being sick.
16:50 When we resonate with someone’s anger and frustration, it’s because we already have that feeling, too. We can’t pick up what we don’t match.
Welcome to the full Spectrum Feeling Podcast. I'm your host, Blaze Schwaller, life coach and former tattoo artist. I help people heal their past, speak their truth to those they love, and learn how to feel ALL their emotions, so that they can live lives they love no matter what comes up. Join me here every week for conversations on how to live an imperfect but fully engaged life that embraces all the feels, so you can stretch into your best life while enjoying the you that's here now.