There are my wife, our 28yo daughter and I rambling around in our palatial 1200 sqft garden townhouse (i.e. one level). We're doing fine, but since my daughter lives here and her boyfriend is in Canuckistan for the duration she's not really too happy. He's getting his year internship (graduated last year in chiropractic medicine) and she's been doing her occupational therapy via Zoom, but they have now had two trips they had planned canceled (Vancouver in April and Manhattan in May). Otherwise, I've been keeping busy. Our fiscal year ended on 3/31, so I put in a lot of 12-16 hour days the last couple of weeks. This week, I've got about six hours of 'meetings' scheduled to work on resource planning for this fiscal year. I took Friday "off", so hopefully I'll be refreshed to get back to it.
I had planned on visiting Madison to see my sister and - especially my parents who are both in their 90s and under hospice care, but it's highly likely that one or both of them will be dead by the time I am allowed to actually go into their facility (a lovely place one block off Capitol Square), so even if I could, getting on a plane this month to WI wouldn't make any sense. So, I'm basically calling about every other day and it sounds like my mom is circling the drain (she's on morphine and heavy muscle relaxants for cancer that's metastasized to her lower spine.) My dad is basically cancer covered with skin at this point, but he's a tough old bastard (went through Ranger basic in late 1944) and survived stage IV gastric/esophogeal cancer at 70 as well as a partial (3/4) pericardiectomy necessitated by radiation damage from the cancer treatment a few years later (he is - or at least was the oldest person to have ever survived that procedure) so who knows?
Anyway - I hope all of you who have major concerns over jobs and income are able to weather this. At least that isn't a concern for me at this point (although, like most of us, I lost about 15% of my nest egg over the past month...)
