She is in hospital with Covid-19 after a binge

Jane is currently in hospital after a binge. She went to hospital because of an alcoholic binge and while she was in hospital she was routinely tested for Covid-19 and found to be positive. I believe that she caught the coronavirus from a previous very recent stay at hospital after another binge. 

I spoke to a doctor and they said that Covid-19 is quite prevalent at hospitals. It is hard to avoid getting it despite the testing that they do in hospital and the efforts to separate infected people from non-infected people. So it's been quite difficult. 

You know it's quite hard to know what to report. This blog has been going for a long time and perhaps I'll  to try and provide an overview. I think she's improved dramatically over the 20 or more years that I have known her. But she still has alcoholic binges. This time they are about three months apart but each binge last about one month when you combine the actual consumption of alcohol with the hospitalisation afterwards.

So I think we could describe the life of this binge alcoholic as three months off and one month on! The on bit is very dangerous because lots of alcohol is consumed and she invariably ends up in hospital. At hospital they invariably do the same tests, scratch their heads and forget to look at the previous documentation which comprises a very thick book of hospital visit records.

Jane is taking a great risk in bingeing on alcohol and then having to go to hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic.. They are dangerous places in normal times but under the pandemic they are, I think, very dangerous places. You have to do all you can to avoid them.

Another problem is that when she's in hospital, as she is regularly, I can't go and see Jane because hospitals won't allow people into them for fear of getting the coronavirus. It's all very difficult. It is not a good time to be an alcoholic because everywhere there is this Covid-19 virus sloshing around Great Britain and the rest of the world waiting to land on somebody and infect them.

It's very worrying for me because I now have to hope and pray that the Covid-19 infection does not lead to severe symptoms in Jane. In some patients it does and in some patients it doesn't. But as soon as they have to put you on a ventilator it's curtains. I forget what the actual figure is but pretty well all the patients who have to be ventilated and up dying eventually.

At least now compared to 12 months ago the medication is far better because doctors have learnt how to treat Covid-19 more effectively. Although the second wave is causing use consternation and many more deaths and infections.

Anyway, back to Jane and her alcoholic bingeing. She's done pretty well to be honest. Before the last or latest binge she had three months off without bingeing at all. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic we met very regularly, every day almost, and walked in parks and so on and down by the river to provide ourselves with company and companionship together with some love and some fresh air. This is how we dealt with the pandemic. It was within the rules because in Great Britain you can go for a walk with a friend or a loved one outside. You form a bubble as they say.

Jane has been in hospital for a total of about three weeks now in relation to recovering from the binge and then recovering from Covid-19. She's still there but touch wood the prospects or prognosis look quite reasonable so I'm hopeful. This is an update on Jane. She manages just about with my help. She wouldn't manage without my help. That's arrogant but it is quite frankly true.