Dave and I are both very vulnerable to COVID-19. He has high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, and I am a chemo patient on a drug that has potential lung and cardiac impacts, as well as suppressing the immune system.
My brother is a smoker, pushing 70, and is diabetic, so he is also highly vulnerable.
My sister and brother in law are the healthiest of us, but his company has started laying people off, so their fears are more of financial ruin.
Dave and I have spent a lot of money getting stocked up on frozen and shelf stable food, and have a stash of paper products that we usually keep on hand anyway, since we get them at Costco.
We have gone out to eat for the last time until this is over, and we won't have to go out to the stores for a long time, so we will recoup that money on the back end by not spending much for the foreseeable future.
Dave's dad's memory care center is on lock down. The only people allowed in or out is the staff, and they are taking precautions.
Dave's company set up a "work from home" experiment last week, and he is all set, so he told his boss that he would just stay put, rather than going back to the office until being told to go home.
He will start his first full week of working from home tomorrow.
My company had meetings on Friday to brief us on the current status in Oklahoma. Since I work for the Emergency Medical Services Authority, we are overseen by the office of the medial director, and we are being protected.
We were told that the work from home protocols are being put into place, and we will be ready when the time comes.
However, I do not see how my job can be transferred to home, and my job is ABSOLUTELY critical to the revenue cycle.
What I foresee is that everyone else who can be set up to work at home will be out of the office, so I can still go there, and do my job, but still be in a form of isolation.
If the office is sterilized, which our cleaning service can do, after everyone else goes home, and I am part of a skeleton crew in the building, with no one else in my area, it should be okay.
The billing has to go out, and I can't feasibly do the paper billing from home. It would require too much paper, printing equipment, envelopes, and a postage meter, and Dave is already taking over the dining room table.
SO.. we will see how things unfold.
If I have to, I will just take all of my vacation time, and someone else will have to go to the office to print and process the billing.
In other news, our new water heater is being installed tomorrow, and yesterday, we purchased a mattress and a platform frame with drawers.
The frame needs to be delivered and built before we can have the mattress delivered, so that's all being scheduled.
Since Dave will be here full time, that shouldn't be a problem.
That trip out to the mattress store was probably our last time going out for a while.
The new dryer is installed, and my new lap top is great, AND, we will still have a little bit of money left to keep in the bank to pay for our Thanksgiving trip. Yay!
I am off to make breakfast. It's a rainy day here, and I didn't sleep well last night, so I will be doing some yoga and reading later.
Make the best of your Sunday!
No comments:
Post a Comment