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Mate. That's rough. The bedtime teatime bathtime routine is a stressor. It knocked me out on "clap for the NHS" day. I had to go to bed.
Take it as easy as you can.
As for work, in my team we're doing 4-5 hours a day (if we've got kids). Can you push for that as a target and see what can get done?
Chalfie-
My work is being really unhelpful and it's stressing me out more.
It doesn't help that because I've been unwell all through how it's unfolded, I don't really know how colleagues are coping with work/kids, official work statement is:
2. Childcare & caring responsibilities when schools are shut: All employees are expected to work a full work day during normal business hours and the company will work with individuals having child care requirements on more flexible schedules. Anyone who thinks they may need to work different hours than their norm, please contact your line manager and HR directly so that we can discuss a different arrangement to make this work for you and the company.
Maybe I'm expecting too much but I just feel like it's a bit unfair tbh. If I contact HR and say I can't work normal hours because of childcare, then the expectation will be to work my full hours just at different times of the day. So my day from wake up to sleep is just childcare/working. Which will just drive me insane. I can barely cope as it is.
I just really want to curl up in bed and cry but I can't even do that because then Em can't work because she has to look after Ezekiel.
Call me a workshy millenial but I'd just really like my company to acknowledge we're in a global pandemic and perhaps be a little caring.
NurseHolliday
Day 18 for me now, still feel not great. I thought I was better but yesterday I had to run around after my boy, take a dirty nappy down to the communal bins (3 flights of stairs), and then do his bath and pyjamas/bedtime which can be pretty strenuous, all one after another and I suddenly realised I was so short of breath and light headed I almost fainted. I had to just lie down in the hallway immediately and it took about 20 minutes for me to feel OK enough to stand up again.
It's my first day back working from home today but if I'm honest I don't feel well enough to, but I'm having really bad anxiety about being put on SSP so if I don't work I'm just basically frozen with worry about money.