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[quote=Anonymous]My 78 year old mom lives alone in a condo (not an old person community, just a regular condo building where she doesn't have contact or know any of her neighbors).  She has been weathering the stay-at-home order pretty well until now and she does have one woman who is also quarantining who she meets up with several times per week to walk outside.  It's been many weeks since I've seen my mom and I do miss her.  I talk to her every day.  She asked me yesterday if there was any possible way that we could get together at some point this weekend.  She's just flat out lonely at this point.  While I would love to see her I just can't see how it's going to work.

My teenager still goes back and forth to his dads house and I still have some required (minimal) outside contacts through work.  Her initial suggestion was that she travel to me (she's in MD, I'm in VA) and just sit out on the deck and spend some time.  But the weather doesn't look like it's going to be conducive to be outside.  I don't want her in my house, as I am a clean person but there's no way to guarantee my house is germ-free.  I could go to her but am super concerned about bringing any germs into her space.  I had considered wearing two layers, stripping one off and leaving it outside her door, wearing gloves and a mask, being liberal with the lysol, etc but I'm not sure that would be enough.  I would just never forgive myself if she got sick because of me.

Any thoughts?[/quote]

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