Mum still in hospital. She was about to be discharged greatly improved rehydrated, medicines changed, Consultant optimistic and assurance giving of continuing care but a swab test taken that day showed positive the next morning for Covid-19 so she was moved to a different Covid Positives ward.

It appears it would be hospital acquired but we have decided to Self Isolate just in case. Feeling OK at present but only 9 days since we saw her so taking care.

NHS Test and Trace phoned us but didn't get past BT Call Protect which is strange be because at least some scammers know how to do that. Their message was caught in a Junk voicemail that I only checked because of the current situation with MUM i.e. someone might have been trying to call us.

Their message said they would call again. I changed the Call Protect settings but they never have called us. You can't call them.

We guess it would be to tell us to self isolate but we decided that for ourselves.
We have also contacted the only other contacts with Mum in recent weeks who are all NHS staff.

Mum doesn't seem to be feeling very ill now, she was feeling poorly a few days ago. Perhaps she will recover, we hope so but who knows aged 93 with heart failure and kidneys working hard. Perhaps we won't get ill or perhaps we will.

Stay calm and carry on. Well yes easier said than done today.

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Mum died Saturday evening. We were able to talk to her just a couple of hours earlier which I am sure was a comfort to her (and us).

Final thought.:
So Mum became a statistic, her 1st listed cause of death corona pneumonia.

This always seemed a risk so we had shielded Mum from weeks before the first Lockdown and we did so successfully until other issues took her to hospital.

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