06/04/2020
So it's been 2 weeks since lockdown.
I am running stir crazy. I am also broke as I had used all my money to stock the house.
Working in healthcare I had been called to come and work at the forefront I lied that O was Ill. I can not come and go and die.
I have spent the past couple of weeks reading about the Corona virus too. It is a virus that causes flu like symptoms (much like malaria fever). High grade fever, body aches, sneezing, cough difficulty breathing etc. May even cause diarrhoea. Some people will have it and not show symptoms some will show some features and others will be very Ill. Those likely to be quite Ill are the elderly and those that have other illnesses like heart conditions, cancer, diabetes etc. Unfortunately like most viral illness, it has no treatment. We can only support the persons body to fight it by itself. The infection is spread by touching one another or surfaces where people that have it (whether they show signs or not) have sneezed or coughed on ( it can be on surfaces for hours long after those people have even left). You can also get it if they sneezed on coughed near you. The easiest way to stop the spread is by staying far away from other people as possible. That's why it is assumed that once anyone gets in a household its likely everyik in thay household will. So to protect yourself and your household we have been advised to stay at home.
I digress. Anyway the point I was trying to make is, I am staying at home, trying to protect myself and my children by refusing to go to work at the hospital where I normally work ( I know that makes me a coward) and now I am bored stiff. As we all know an idle mind is the devil's workshop. All is complicated by the fact that I have been single for quite a while...if you get my drift. So I went online....
I find this cool guy ( don't ask me how, that's a trade secret. ). Really handsome. Good looking. He says he is a tech guy. Also bored staying alone at home as he is single and can do with some company. He flashes some cool gadgets in his home at him via video and I assume he must also be quite comfortable. I start dreaming of us walking down the isle one day. I quickly told him I am divorced with 2 children. He doesnt mind, we all have our past he says.
So we continue to communicate over 2 days. Then we start planning to meet but he stops allowing video calls. Only audio. He says his house is dirty and that embarrasses him. Oh, that's okay. I can over over and we spend some time together and I clean it for you? Is that okay? He agrees. I am so happy. I hope I am.coming across as a good wife material? All he needs to be a good husband material is money and I think he has that.
So to be sure. I ask him if he has any Corona like symptoms or any contact with anyone with such symptoms. He says no. He's only been to shops on the past 3 weeks. And he feels quite well at the moment. So we agree I will come and visit and clean his house.
On the agreed date, off I go. I put my healthcare worker sticker on my car so no one stops me from driving about town. I am so happy. Even during this lockdown I still find my love?! I follow his description and lo and behold he lives in one of the posh environments. I start to praise God in my dialect. I am going to be a housewife to a rich tech guy.
Grrrrrrrr. I press the bell. He calls me on the phone that the door was unlocked and I should come in. OMG!!! I am hit by a horrible odour. No big deal, he has told me his house is dirty. I guess he is such a big baby. Can't take care of himself. Not to worry, I will take good care of him. I thread my way though all the dirt upstairs and there he was, looking quite Ill with a box of tissues beside him!!!!
Ha!!! Are you Ill? Do you have Coro? But you did not tell me nah?! I am in trouble! Coro made me run away from work and lo and behold I walk into it!!! I suddenly find myself on him with his mouth on mine! He had pulled me down with his last strength and was kissing me! I am dead o!!!! I am dead!!! I finally get Coro.
Mr Loverboy, but this is not good o. You know you have Coro yet you lied to me. Anyway, since we love each other I will stay and take care of you and we can get married after this Coromadness is over. I am already thinking of asking Bolade my friend to go and stay with my children. I will kuku die here.
He coughs and sputters...marry? Who said anything about marriage? My family is in the UK. No, I am not looking for marriage. I thought you would come, clean up, have s*x and go back to your house. Hot tears streams down my face!!!! My end has finally come. I have to make a decision. I am already here. Surely have Coro running through my veins now, so I choose to stay do the cleaning but nothing more.
Now it's 4 hours after that fateful time I pressed the bell. His house his clean. I have cleaned him up and cooked for him and I am going back home. He gives me 10k. Meena, see what you have done to yourself I soliloquy. If you had gotten Coro from your normal work it would be more...honourable. I look at the 10k I can't even get home with it as I can only presume it has Coro on it waiting to infect someone. Tears broke down my face as I throw away the money.
I am home. I sneak upstairs avoiding my children, thinking about how I can self isolate from my children for the next 2 weeks. I just know that as soon as my 2 weeks are over and Coro doesn't take me, I am going back to work. Dear diary, I am traumatised but I will let you know if I do develop coro symptoms.
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