Poll: Holiday plans impacted by illness (@@@)

[Patsy Baloney]

Well, thanks to everyone who is allowing themselves to be disrupted by illness. It’s a bummer and I’m sorry, but I’m grateful to anyone who makes the decision to protect others from the absolute garbage that is circulating now.

The only reason we’re not getting disrupted is because we’re not traveling/hosting, but we’ve had someone sick in our house since September.

[breezy8407]

I said maybe.

Both of my kids had influenza last week (DS was tested, I assume DD had the same but didn't test her). They are both fever free, but DD is still coughing a lot. Somehow, H or I haven't gotten sick yet, but I don't know how. I wash hands a lot and wiped down high touch things, but otherwise was with them taking care of them. This weekend we had an out of town tournament and the team went bowling, and if I don't catch something from my kids, it would be from that place. Shudders.

My inlaws are supposed to come Tuesday and we've warned them. :/

[Susie]

I am really anxious because we got talked into some elaborate family plans, involving us picking up my dad midway to a TG that's 8 hours away from us, different nights in different places, and visiting with various people.  My dad left our house with our dog today, so she can board with his dogs while we travel for actual TG (we will get her back on Sat, before we come the rest of the way home on Sun.).  My dog is fine with my dad, but I would really miss her if she got stranded there due to illness scrapping plans, plus my dad was relying on us for a ride to TG.

I didn't like the complexity of these plan to begin with, but now I'm really stressing.  This was unwise.

[rikki]

No, but partially because I refuse to see anyone other than the people I live with. I’m totally burned out and have no patience for extended family or friends. I just want to sit in pajamas and watch the dog show by myself.

[bee20]

Maybe. A coworker went home sick on Thursday and tested positive on Friday. We work right next to each other and had long face to face conversations so I'm quarantined for now and will be testing through Thursday morning. Luckily my plans are local.

[waverly]

Yes, they are. For the first time in 3 years we were hosting family and it is just 3 people anyway, so a small group. We were hosting MIL, FIL and my mom. Well, MIL and FIL have Covid. Last Christmas my sister's entire family and my mom and DH had Covid. So yeah, many holidays ruined here.

[lilac05]

Not yet.

I’m not holding my breath, though. Thursday is a long time from now!

[madDawg228]

Maybe - DS has a mild cold/cough from daycare. Covid-negative, no fever.
I got looks/judgement when I brought him last year when he had a runny nose/drool from teething, so I'm waiting to see how he feels/sounds as we get closer to Thursday.

[sadie]

No impact, but we aren't traveling. Tday will be on our own and low key.

Thanks to all who have made difficult decisions to cancel plans if there are known germs.

[chilerellanos]

Well, I just tested positive today.

We weren’t going anywhere but now we will be sick.

[dancingirl21]

Probably.

Not my family - the 4 of us seem to be fine, but we were supposed to go to MIL/FIL's for Thanksgiving and found out SIL and her baby both tested positive last week. MIL/FIL hadn't seen them so it seemed like we were okay, but for some asinine reason, FIL decided to go into their home and bring them groceries on Saturday, so he has completely exposed himself. DH and I are pissed. We are going to Mexico on Saturday for DH's 40th birthday with our kids. I believe DH is breaking it to his parents today that we will not be with them on Thanksgiving.

I knew something like this would happen and planned ahead last week and bought nearly everything for a Thanksgiving meal at our house.

[noodleoo]

Who knows at this point. I’m really annoyed that I made plans this year. I am now over it and I wish we were having a low key Thanksgiving at home juts ourselves.

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DD2 appeared to have a stomach bug Fri night into Sat. By Sunday morning she seemed fine, ate fine all day so I thought we were in the clear. This morning she threw up again after breakfast. Seemed ok after, ate snack fine, was playing happily all morning. Then threw up lunch again. WTF?!? I took tomorrow off to have a day to myself to get stuff ready for my parents flying up Wed. (I don’t even want my parents to come anymore but that’s drama for another day). Fuck I’m so exhausted and I really needed my day alone tomorrow. 😭😭😭

[RoxMonster]

No, but we aren't doing too much to begin with. It was always just going to be H and me. Our dog is elderly and arthritic and has too hard of a time in a long car ride anymore to visit my parents/grandma, and since it would be such a short trip anyhow, we're just doing the holiday alone.

H and I both WFH and have no plans to really leave the house over the next few days anyway. The only thing that could potentially get canceled would be that we are delivering meals to families in our community on Thanksgiving morning, and we would cancel if we got sick. But like I said with us not really leaving the house, we will likely not get ill before Thurs.

[sparkythelawyer]

The kiddo sparked a fever yesterday and is miserable today.  We'll see.  But, whelp, this is not the year I dodge bullets so I'm anticipating a McDonalds doordashed Thanksgiving.

[chickadee77]

We celebrated Canadian TG this year, just us, so this week isn't really anything. I might throw in a turkey just because I have one in the freezer and need the space, lol, but it's just us.

My only real plan is to decorate for Christmas and drink hot chocolate whilst watching the parade/dog show. Maybe do some baking.

[vlinder]

We’ll see. So far just indirectly—the baker from whom we ordered a pie and her family came down with the flu over the weekend. She gave us the choice of still getting a pie from her or getting a refund, and I opted for the latter. Hopefully everyone in our family remains well.

[tacokick]

I don’t know! It’s just a few of us for Thanksgiving at my dad’s but my husband is feeling gross but testing Covid negative. We are staying local and I bought the food to take and make at my dad’s already so if we stay home, I guess I’ll just make it. I don’t feel that great either but I had a migraine in the middle of the night so that might be it.

[dcn]

We are staying home anyway but both kids are coughing and are congested. Again. H and I planned a day date for tomorrow so of course. We’ll see how they are in the morning. Maybe they can go to school for a couple of hours.

[erbear]

I assume that since 7 of the 11 of us are children or teachers, our plans will probably be impacted by someone's illness. Le sigh. We've been masking for the last week at school but I assume the others are not.

[cherry1111]

Missed thanksgiving with my family on Saturday because DS came down with a fever. He tested positive for flu the next day. I assume we will not be attending Thursdays dinner with the in-laws. Even if he feels better I’m thinking we shouldn’t be around others quite yet.

[sparkythelawyer]

Annnnnd she just got diagnosed with Flu A. So, so much for Thanksgiving this year.

[scm1011]

DS came home with a 101 fever so we’ll see! He just has Covid a few weeks ago so at least we know it’s very unlikely it’s that.

[nsl]

Yes, unfortunately. Kid 1 has a bad cough but tested negative for Covid, RSV, and flu. DS 2 started vomiting Saturday night--our family dinner was supposed to be Sunday--so between the two of them we had to cancel our plan to host my parents, sister, nephews, and aunt. My parents were thankfully able to step in so the dinner wasn't cancelled outright, but I'm bummed that our "big" meal won't be happening until closer to Christmas.

[Poeticxpassion]

I am having surgery tomorrow, so no thanksgiving for us.

Oh darn, we can’t go to the in-laws. DH will be making me side dishes once a week for several weeks. My gastroparesis can’t handle all that rich food at once, so he will be making me the things I love one at a time so I can still enjoy a 1/4 of a portion.

[AdaraMarie]

I said no this morning but now my niece is sick so I changed it to maybe. I will be more upset if it affects the plans I have with my sister on Saturday. Fingers crossed it's a 24 hour thing.

[StrawberryBlondie]

Not yet but I'm secretly kind of hoping for mild sickness or weather issues because I really don't want to travel the 3ish hrs. Love Thanksgiving, love the people, literally just hate that particular drive.

[jlt19]

Our actual Thanksgiving meal was supposed to be last Sunday but my sisters youngest had the flu. It’s been pushed to this Sunday but she now has the flu.

We have a different family coming on Thursday for non-Thanksgiving food but still to hang and I’m really hoping that is still a go.

We still haven’t had, what was a “normal” Thanksgiving since 2019 and I’m not sure we’ll ever have that situation again.

[redheadbaker]

We're not going anywhere, or hosting anybody, so even if any of us did get sick, it wouldn't impact our plans.

[underwaterrhymes]

I’m sorry for everyone experiencing illness.

My FIL was just diagnosed with COVID too (we haven’t seen him since August, so it’s not from us), so I feel bad for my SIL and BIL, who are now hosting a much smaller group than anticipated. My FIL has multiple health issues, so I’m pretty worried about him.

[chedifuen]

I'm a ball of stress. My kids and husband are all sick, negative for COVID and Flu but feeling pretty bad. We're supposed to host. My dad is in poor health and I'm very worried this will be his last Thanksgiving and I would hate to not see him. But, of course, I do not want to expose him to anything either.

My brother has his kids for the holiday, for the first time post-divorce. I would really like them to have happy memories of holidays on our side of the family. My brother is an asshole and won't do anything if I end up not being able to host.

Basically, I'm crossing everything in the hopes that my family feels better today and we can go forward with the holiday as planned.