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Did you lose social support systems during the pandemic? Describe what that loss felt like. Have you restored those support systems yet? If so, how? If not, how might you go about doing that?
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My new church wasn’t very helpful which was disappointing. I felt abandoned and unloved.
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Yes I did but praise God now they are renewed!
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I did not lose support systems. Woodlands Church has you tube, also weekly sermons live, devotionals 5 times a week. Online groups. Also, people I know from church either online, on my phone contacts and email I stayed in contact with. Only problem I had was not being able to go anywhere or wearing masks and gloves, whereas they had no mask for my trachea. I can’t breathe through my mouth or nose, only through my trachea. So, a mask was I thought useless in away. I worried about others. People I visited in the nursing homes I couldn’t visit inside, but I cold wave to them from their window. I didn’t fear for me. I prayed that no one would get Covid and that they would find a cure, because so many families were losing family members and that was the hardest part. Not having visitation or funerals. God was always in control. A lot of times my emotions was not. Felt worse than being locked in a closet with the lock put in the wrong way. At least being locked in a closet because of the lock being put on wrong someone hears you knocking and lets you out. Finding a cure for a deadly disease just took a lot longer.
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I felt a little helpless, not being able to visit sick relatives and abit isolated during lockdowns, it helped not living alone at the time.
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Again I am grateful for God that I was a hospital worker and my colleagues was with me and my work life was normal, yes we were separated from close friends and family but our lives was good.