This is a blog post all about the coronavirus and new beginnings. Seen as though this is my first post here on my new blog that I would sit down and have a chat with you guys. I want to talk about where I have been and what I have been doing. A couple eagle-eyed people out there may recognise me from my previous blog ‘Danielle Alexa’. I loved running that blog but I had reached a point in my personal life where it was no longer sustainable to run. I made the painful decision to delete my blog and regain my personal time. Around 6 months after deleting my blog I felt ready to jump back on the horse.
Coronavirus spurred me on to create my blog. Normally I am running at a million miles per minute. The restrictions that COVID has caused over the past couple of months have really made me take a back step. Normally weekends would be spent running around for all of the other people in my life and as much as I honestly do not mind doing that, it has been nice to have some time to myself for me to relax completely. Being stuck in the house gave me the kick that I needed to start my blog.
I do want to start out this blog post by acknowledging how lucky I am. My family and I have made it past the terrifying peak of the Coronavirus and my family has been pretty much untouched. Nobody within my immediate family has contracted the virus. Even luckier that nobody in my life has passed away from the virus. I know that we are not all lucky enough to say that. I want people affected deeply by the virus to know that I am thinking about you. My family is still fit and healthy following the peak of the virus. I am just hoping that if a second peak arises that we will have the same luck.
Coronavirus heavily impacted my work life for a number of months. I am in a fortunate position that I have come out of this and still have a job. The same is not the case for everybody as redundancies are currently happening. I work for a healthcare company and primarily we supply the NHS. From around the middle of March, I was working from home and working 12-14 hour days. I am so proud of what I achieved at work during this period, despite the challenges. This situation brought up some mental health challenges, which I speak about here.
Now I guess, I am just trying to get back to some form of the new normal routine. I look after my Nan, so it is great to bring her to our house to give her some tea. I am back in the office at work, which has benefitted me massively because I am a creature of habit. Thankfully I am actually off work this week, so I think I am going to go to the pub and make the most of the fact that they have reopened. It was my husbands birthday at the weekend, so we are going to go out and celebrate. I know that I will be over-cautious with everything that I do because I have to still be so careful when seeing my Nan.
I really do hope that the Coronavirus has not been too cruel to you. We can come out of the other side of this awful virus with some positivity. This has been something brand new that none of us knew how to navigate. Even though there are local lockdowns, it is beginning to seem like we are over the worst of it. Normal life can begin to resume soon. Make sure to leave me a comment down below. Let me know how you have fared up over the past couple of months.
I just want to advise you guys to ensure you are using reputable sources for Coronavirus new such as: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274.