Three things to say instead of asking “How can I help?”
I feel like I need to start this story with a disclaimer. I am lucky. There are so many people in much worse situations than me and my family. Mainly, we are not in danger of losing our shelter as so many are.
That being said, I’m scared. We are at risk of losing my husband’s life. That is real and it is very frightening.
My husband Richard is on the third week of suffering from Covid-19, and he is very public about what he is experiencing in order to help people understand what it’s like to go through it and take the risk as seriously as possible. I fully support that, and as a result, I have a lot of time spent on communications responding to the question “How can I help?” with a lot of 🤷♀️. In fact, I balance the stress of feeling like a terrible person if I don’t respond and spending a lot of time responding which takes me away from other things that need to be done which leaves me less time to do things– I shoulder everything for my family of two small children, a puppy and an old dog, and attempt to work as well.
The problem is one that’s inherent to isolation.
The help I need is inside the house. And that’s just the place no one can help. Here are a few…
