Wellness Check

Hey y’all! Welcome back to my blog! This blog is going to be more of a personal update on my wellness and how I am adjusting to this coronavirus lifestyle. I would like to start off by saying that my spring began off great, but then it turned into a nightmare even with the extension. Early Saturday morning, March 14^th, I woke up to a panicked knock on my door. It was my aunt and she delivered the news that my papa found my grandma in the living room unconscious. When I heard this news, my heart dropped. We rushed to my grandma’s house to find out that she was flown to the hospital in Greenville. That was the scariest weekend of my life, especially with being in the middle of the coronavirus epidemic. The doctors said she was in cardiac arrest and they found a little pneumonia in her lungs. She was on a ventilator for about 3 days and they finally pulled the plug the following Monday. Everyone in my family was devastated because this was very unexpected, but was good to see all my family members that I haven’t seen in a long time get together and celebrate the life of my grandma. What was also really tough was that we couldn’t have a full funeral because of the regulations enforced by the government, so we could only have a graveside service. This was not ideal, but I’m pretty sure my grandma was satisfied with it given the resources that were available.

While this seemed like and extra week of spring break for others, it allotted me the time to be able to grieve my loss. Had we been back in school, I would have fell super-duper behind in my academics and that would have not ended well. It still hurts, but luckily the tears have slowed. It’s not a day or a moment when I don’t think about her. I just try to keep my head up and work even harder to make her proud.

In the midst of all this UNC has decided that we weren’t returning to campus, that we had a short time period to move out of our dorms, and that we would be continuing remote learning for the remainder of the semester due to the COVID-19 outbreak. All of these things were just extremely inconvenient and I know I’m not the only person who feels this way.

I’m just overwhelmed with the remainder of the semester and I know a lot of the professors are two because we basically have the cram in the remainder of the semester and do it virtually at that. I just want to commend all them for trying to make this as smooth as they possible could. Virtually learning is going to take some getting used to, but at the end of the day I think everything is going to work out fine. My county and North Carolina has officially ordered a stay-at-home order until April 16 and I honestly don’t know how to feel about it. I know it’s supposed to prevent community spread of the coronavirus, but I’m going to miss my friends and boyfriend. Hopefully this thing ends soon so we can go back to our normal daily lives, but I guess I’ll wait on the “foreseeable future” UNC was talking about.