Sunday
Total world cases: 2,339,129------------------- 66,684 increase
Total fatalities: 165,006-------------------------5,890 increase
UK total: 120,067-------------------------------5,850 increase
UK Fatalities: 16,060--------------------------- 596 increase
Monday
Total world cases: 2,476,574------------------- 137,445 increase
Total fatalities: 170,569-------------------------5,563 increase
UK total: 124,743-------------------------------4,676 increase
UK Fatalities: 16,509--------------------------- 449 increase
Another significant decrease in UK deaths - which I hope IS actually significant and not just a temporary dip - still a lot of people dying too early, but it is promising. Not too much made of it on the news however which surprises me. I just had a look on BBC news and Sky News and they simply reported the numbers without mentioning the fact that it has gone down again. Maybe this is just indicative of reporters mainly focussing on negative things or maybe reporters know that this will be short lived?
Some people in America are protesting against the lock down because of the harm to businesses and livelihoods. If they had a loved one go through what my dad did I swear they wouldn't even consider should a stupid protest. I understand that people are struggling and are under threat of not being able to pay - or can't pay mortgages - but your life is more important than material things. Maybe I'd feel the differently if I was going to lose my house and I had no personal experience with the virus so I won't judge too harshly. I just think that the more people that socialise and ignore the advice or protest, the more people will die - including those very protesters. Maybe they will regret it when they are in hospital on a ventilator contemplating their own mortality.
Anyway...after a bad nights sleep I was woken up at 7.15am by Mum and Helen getting up. I got up - and joined them and Helen was getting a migraine - she suffers very badly with them and is on all sorts of medication so it was quite worrying. She took pills in the hope that she could stop a full blown one....we were expecting to hear from the funeral home with a date, so she wanted to get that over with. We both started to check what we had to follow up on today - and started doing that...I was chasing up about the Wills and Power of Attorney - not because we needed them but we wanted to locate them and make sure everything was in order. I was following up on a debt my mum managed to get a County Court Judgement on - in a case where we have now been told the woman in question had died of cancer. Its awful to question this - but she lied to my mum again and again...
I cut the grass again - a bit shorter and trimmed around edges with scissors! Looks much better. Then we heard back from the funeral home - 30th April - 10 days from today. Another 10 days away from home. It seems like a long time. I want to be here for my mum for as long as possible but its not easy really - for reasons I mentioned yesterday. I still haven't heard back from my boss either - he is probably on rest days - but I need some reassurance really because I am a little worried about the time I have been off. It is probably not too bad because this virus has turned everything on its head but still....
We had some lunch and then I went with my mum with the dogs to the park, and when we got back Helen was in bed. I started to go through lots of photographs - sending some via messenger to my kids, of when they were all little. My mum seems to have better ones of my lot when they were young than I do! After this - we watched TV for a while - and then it was time to think about food - and Helen got up - after 5 hours in bed - feeling much better which was a relief.
The shopping we ordered wasn't arriving until late so we decided to order take-out. It was very average - but solved the dilemma of what to have. We then settled down again in front of the TV - and watched Tiger King again. My mum and Helen are both into their crochet - my mum does all sorts - but they have this in common - I am getting a bit of pressure to join in!!
I have been so tired all day and headachy - to at about 9.40pm I left them to it - I came to bed and had a quick chat via messenger with Andy and wrote this blog. I need to get to sleep asap - or my early night will be wasted - it is already 11pm!! That went quickly! Good night...