3300 cases
Recovered: 903
Deceased: 58

It is amazing how priorities change due to Covid-19. This funny little chart is a fairly accurate indicator of where we are in our world. Car? What’s that? And never before have I completely appreciated the value of a decent pair of really comfortable pants. I’ve become fairly attached to three pairs, and wear them consecutively.

So, as I am sitting here at my desk, in my home office, fending off my twins, my dogs and my cats so that I can just get a little bit of constructive work done, in one of my pairs of comfy pants, I realise that I skipped a day of writing my blog. I think with all the stress with the husband in hospital, the twins acting up and trying to remember where in the week I am with regards to my office work, my brain decided that it needed some very necessary time out. I do think though that it is a good thing to be a day behind, as it allows me to share an overview of the whole day, and not just a section of it.

I wanted to call Discovery South Africa today to have a word with them after one of their consultants called me this morning regarding our medical claim for my husband’s hospitalisation. They really just want to be sure that I am apparently aware that my husband needs to understand that he can only be paid out if he allows doctors that are registered with Discovery and charges according to the scheme rate to see him while he is in hospital. Dear Discovery SA, my husband doesn’t know whether he is coming or going, and he is in a lot of pain and high on morphine. He is barely awake, and in high care. I doubt he knows or cares or is even alert enough to just say before a doctor/specialist/medical person works on him: “Hey there, stop what you are doing. First show me your registration documents and your charges list with regards to Discovery.” I shared my opinion with said consultant with regards to the entire idiotic conversation, and reminded him that none of us are allowed near the hospital, and it is impossible to get anything done via telephone because the medical staff is not always available. It feels to me that these people do not live in the same country as us at the moment.

Our Rand dropped to R19 to the Dollar again today for the third time this month – it just-just started to recover, then our status got downgraded as a country to beyond junk, and our repo rate dropped again. It’s looking a bit better now at R18.84, but online articles from economists are not looking positive. It makes it difficult to make decisions about what to do when our country’s economy is under threat.

We are catapulting towards another month-end at a very high speed. My heart breaks for all the people contacting me looking for work. It is my priority to just be able to look after the people we have right now. We sorted out payroll today again for April so that we are ready. We paid our nanny in full, obviously, for March and again for April. Her response? She was upset because we didn’t also give her her transport money. I cannot understand it at all. There is no transport at the moment, because she moved in with us, into my guest room. I was so glad this month because I could save a bit with the transport money not being necessary, yet it seems that she is upset because she still wants it. I’m doing my best to see how to sort this out in a way that means happiness all round. Evelyn is important to all of us – she’s family.

We’ll survive this, we’ve survived more. And what’s even better, if we just get our mindsets right, we might just thrive.