I have been feeling isolated lately. Our support groups haven’t met for months, we aren’t able to go out with friends and life at home with just my husband has become the norm. We get excited about our weekly trips to the grocery store. Our 1700 square foot house has never felt smaller.

Thankfully, we are in a couple of on-line groups, they provide some contact but sometimes I just need a hug from a friend. Zoom meetings are great but are not a real substitute for being able to interact with others in person. The internet does allow me to maintain relationships with others in anticipation of better days ahead when we can be together again. What I have found is that I need more from on-line support than I did when it was in-person. I was having breakfast once a month with a group of CarePartners and then every other month we would have a larger support group meeting. Since everything has shut down and moved on-line, what started as one zoom partner meeting a month quickly became two and now I have added a third. I was just invited to participate in a weekly group that would bring the count up to 7 zoom meetings a month just for CarePartners. It is terrific that there are so many options out there yet I would trade them all for just one of our breakfast meetings. I miss the smiles, the connections, the hugs. Maybe soon?