November 2019: The very beginning...

Normally I would start this with a "Where should I start...." Unfortunately with this situation, we know when and even a where it started. Earliest news ON EARTH, started a year from this month, and as the title of the first intro post, (which maybe I should put into the blog name, hmmmm...) This last 12 months has been as Shit Show.... So instead of the normal where should I start, I will start with....

Lets go back to the beginning.... November of 2019. 

Where and what was happening during this month. 

NOVEMBER 2019

WORLD: NOVEMBER 17^TH: Per an official Chinese statement, this is when they think patient 0 was identified with the initial infection. (3) The general consensus was that patient zero came out of Wuhan, China however others say it may have been closer towards the end of 2019, with some reports point to cases in early December. (5)

WHO: No Reports

USA: No Reports

TEXAS: No Reports

BEXAR COUNTY/SAN ANTONIO: No Reports

At this point, no one knew really, so I guess I can't really say it was affecting me in anyway.  In November I was a month into my new job, a few months into being a newly wed, and exhausted because at this time we were dealing with recalled medications. If you don't work in the pharmaceutical field or heck, even medical field, you will never know how crazy this can be. What feels like a million patients calling worried that they now are going to have cancer. All while having to help just the regular patients and calls, fixing everyone's problems and SAVING THE WORLD ONE MEDICATION AT A TIME..... just kidding, but sometimes it feels that way.

So now let me just touch on a few posts on my Social Media to just show you how "normal" my life was at this point. 

I was just fixing to get my hair colored in the rainbow style for the first time and this was a big bold thing in my life. As silly as it seems, all my other jobs I had to have "normal" hair color.   Here in Texas we were making fun of the Northerners having snow and the cold but we had nice weather, a normal occurrence every year. 

Already we were all joking about the new year coming up and as always just hoping things would be a tad better than it was in the past year, all thinking what we were dealing with was horrible.

Still wondering where those damn zip lock cereal bags were...

If only this was going to be my biggest worry. If we had only known. 

A smooth November came and went and on to Christmas and December we w

Welcome to the Sh*t Show!

    It's amazing how our lives and world has changed in the last 10 months. 

    We started off the year in high hopes. It was 2020, a start of a new decade, it was to be a great year! And then we are thrown into something most of us never thought we would ever seen in our life time. A Worldwide Pandemic. I mean when most of us use to think of those words, the first thing that came to mind was ZOMBIE APOCOLYPSE! Impossible right? And then there were those crazy preppers, I'm not judging as we are sort of preppers. Who knew they had the right idea all along. Toilet paper, water, meat, eggs, sanitary and hygiene items, all in a shortage. Toilet paper, really? But as much as we want it, it is not a fictional story or horror movie anymore. It's become our regular day to day lives. 

    I've decided to write about my experience so far as an essential worker, wife, mother, daughter, granddaughter, sister, aunt, friend co-worker.... Not all of you have experienced what I have, and even other essential workers and I don't share similar stories. So here is an view into my life during this interesting year. 

Note: My experiences will be all in Italics. A lot of this will be information from news sources, however I believe that sharing my experience will help people better understand what I have had to deal with, and make me wish I had kept a journal. It means a lot of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter posts to delve into! ALSO, the way BlogSpot works, it'll place the newest post at the top, that means that you will have to start at the furthest post and read in a weird order. GOOD LUCK!

*All sources will be listed on the source page. Sources will be cited by numbers*