Today has been interesting. I found out that one of my patients that I last saw last Tuesday tested positive for Coronavirus on Sunday. She sent me the information with advice to stay at home and a form to fill out for the local health authority as a person who had contact with an infected individual. Thus home quarantine for me it is - I'm not allowed to go out at all. I feel fine for now and have no symptoms, but Jack and I decided to be on the safe side and isolate me for the time being from everyone else. We figured that most likely if I am infected, then the chance of him and the boys becoming infected (or having already gotten it in the meantime since Tuesday) are very high. However we think that by trying to be safe for the next few days while I haven't shown symptoms we might be able to stretch out the possible infection thus making sure that we, as the adults, are not sick right at the same time (laypersons theories at this point, but experts also have no definite information on this either). It would make it much easier to look after the kids, if we were to be sick consecutively. Time will tell...
With the help of a portable camping table I have converted our bedroom to a temporary practice room, where I talk to patients over the phone, and tomorrow I'll start video sessions with a white wall in the background to try and keep at least some sort of neutrality and abstinence in therapy. And it has also become my own analysis room, as I had my first training analysis session with my therapist over the phone today. Both has worked better than expected, which is good and surprising at the same time.
Over the course of the morning, while dealing with unendless stream of beurocracy with my institute, now that I'm doing phone sessions, I got further emails from two other patients, both of whom I saw on Wednesday. They are now also under quarantine and one is awaiting results of her test, as she might actually be infected. So there is a reasonable chance that I am actually infected, but we'll only find out definitely after next Wednesday on the 1st of April, which is when 14 days of potential infection period will be over. There's something untrustworthy about finding out the result of quarantine on April Fool's Day. I called my GP to find out if I should get a test already to know things for sure. The doctor's assistant told me to stay away and to call the Corona Hotline, which I did. After an unexpectedly short period of time on hold (about 15 mins) the woman on the other end of the line asked if I had any symptoms and said that if I didn't, there's no point trying to get tested, as they only test people with symptoms. So - waiting game for now it is. This is also hard for people like my training therapist and a supervisor, both of whom I saw after Wednesday, as they don't know if they should now close their practice if I am potentially infected. But there's not much else I can do at this point, other than wait.
Jack has been wonderful bringing me food and coffee and putting them in front of the bedroom door. We've been joking about leprosy and the plague, which albeit morbid, actually puts a lighter spin on things. Tom has snuck into the bedroom one time and tried to sell me his picture for 10 EUR. He's sorted his stash of drawings yesterday and decided to sell them to people. We've been careful to let him down gently that perhaps it's a bit of a steep price... (update: artwork below... )
It does feel pretty lonely confined here despite electronic contact to the outside world. Thankfully this week is supposed to be very sunny, as it is now and that makes things easier (see photo from my "office").
Following are some photos from yesterday's trip out of the little town of Linum in Brandenburg, where we went for a little hike and did some birdwatching. Apparently it has the largest population of storks in all of Germany (wave to Z and C!). That was obviously before we knew that I might be infected with the virus.
Stay healthy!
With the help of a portable camping table I have converted our bedroom to a temporary practice room, where I talk to patients over the phone, and tomorrow I'll start video sessions with a white wall in the background to try and keep at least some sort of neutrality and abstinence in therapy. And it has also become my own analysis room, as I had my first training analysis session with my therapist over the phone today. Both has worked better than expected, which is good and surprising at the same time.
Over the course of the morning, while dealing with unendless stream of beurocracy with my institute, now that I'm doing phone sessions, I got further emails from two other patients, both of whom I saw on Wednesday. They are now also under quarantine and one is awaiting results of her test, as she might actually be infected. So there is a reasonable chance that I am actually infected, but we'll only find out definitely after next Wednesday on the 1st of April, which is when 14 days of potential infection period will be over. There's something untrustworthy about finding out the result of quarantine on April Fool's Day. I called my GP to find out if I should get a test already to know things for sure. The doctor's assistant told me to stay away and to call the Corona Hotline, which I did. After an unexpectedly short period of time on hold (about 15 mins) the woman on the other end of the line asked if I had any symptoms and said that if I didn't, there's no point trying to get tested, as they only test people with symptoms. So - waiting game for now it is. This is also hard for people like my training therapist and a supervisor, both of whom I saw after Wednesday, as they don't know if they should now close their practice if I am potentially infected. But there's not much else I can do at this point, other than wait.
Jack has been wonderful bringing me food and coffee and putting them in front of the bedroom door. We've been joking about leprosy and the plague, which albeit morbid, actually puts a lighter spin on things. Tom has snuck into the bedroom one time and tried to sell me his picture for 10 EUR. He's sorted his stash of drawings yesterday and decided to sell them to people. We've been careful to let him down gently that perhaps it's a bit of a steep price... (update: artwork below... )
It does feel pretty lonely confined here despite electronic contact to the outside world. Thankfully this week is supposed to be very sunny, as it is now and that makes things easier (see photo from my "office").
Following are some photos from yesterday's trip out of the little town of Linum in Brandenburg, where we went for a little hike and did some birdwatching. Apparently it has the largest population of storks in all of Germany (wave to Z and C!). That was obviously before we knew that I might be infected with the virus.
Stay healthy!
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