I am disabled and am on oxygen 24/7. I still manage to clean my house and take my trash out - and occassionally drive but for the most part I am homebound and have everything delivered - groceries, RX's etc. I struggle to shower and dress and do nearly anything that takes effort. I am trying to exercise to increase my strength but feel like it's a lost cause. I know I am terminally ill and like have 5 yrs or less to live. I'm currently 60 yrs old, although most people guess I'm in my 40's.
I have an assistant to do the water changes for my two aquariums weekly. I pay him $50 an aquarium and once I get the 90 gallon aquarium into action - then I'll pay him extra for that aquarium. I'll be moving fish around and will end up with one 50 gallon and one 90 gallon so I'll likely pay him $150 per week. I think that is a generous amount to pay and he does a good job.
The problem is that he is not vaccinated from COVID and has no intention of getting vaccinated. He also often bring his VERY annoying 5 yr old with him most weeks. She is not overly active but makes these horrible grunting sounds CONSTANTLY (she talks perfectly fine). Interruppts me constantly and her dad provides no dicipline. I frequenltly tell her to "shut up" which is very rude for me, but it does work on her. I can't stand the child but she does keep her masks on and he religiously wears his mask. She, of course is too young to be vaccinated but they have no plans to vaccinate her.
I have another assistant that used to care for my fish until reliability became a problem, she is currently de-weeding my landscaped areas - there are some beautiful bulbs planted and there used to be other plants until the weeds choked them out. In the spring I will likely pay her to add some bushes to the front where they just moved my gas meter and it looks terrible. I pay her very well for a very hard job. I've also given her money in the past when she has run short. She is NOT vaccinated - she lives with her ex-husband and their two young girls. None of them wear masks. She believes the vaccine causes horrible things and they haven't tested enough even though they are now FDA approved. She's just a rebellious spirit that doesn't trust or believe any politician but watches some terrible extreme right-wing news on her phone (she can't afford cable since she quit her job because she was sure they would fire her). She used to work from home (on the phone and computer) but to save money kept her kids home frequently from daycare (she wasn't allowed to have anybody at home while she was "at work". ) They monitored a number of her phone calls where they could hear her kids in the background and gave her warning after warning. So she just is completely non-obedient, BUT when she is working she works 1000% better than anybody I've ever seen. Amazingly strong and tough. I'm sure they were going to fire her - they given her at least a dozen warnings and told her one more and she would be fired. She still didn't perform as required. Even when her kids are at day care and now one at school - she would leave during work hours to transport one or both to daycare or back home. Her ex-husband works long hours in construction but is a drug addict, Again, not only did she fail to tell me she was not vaccinated - she doesn't even wear a mask. Her mother recently had a kidney transplant (making her high risk) and she STILL refuses to get vaccinated even though she could kill her mother (who is vaccinated)
I have been vaccinated. But still fear catching COVID due to the new strain. Even a mild case could hospitalize me (if there is room). I just recovered from pneumonia - it took 3 months. My lungs are extremely damaged, I have been told I would not survive a ventilator. So here I have all these people close to me that are unvaccinated only because they don't want anybody to tell them what to do and they don't believe in the vaccine but believe it is what is killing people. I get so angry I frankly want to fire them both for refusing to get vaccinated but I had a terribly hard time finding anybody to do this kind of work for me and I can't do most of it myself.
What do I do?
I have an assistant to do the water changes for my two aquariums weekly. I pay him $50 an aquarium and once I get the 90 gallon aquarium into action - then I'll pay him extra for that aquarium. I'll be moving fish around and will end up with one 50 gallon and one 90 gallon so I'll likely pay him $150 per week. I think that is a generous amount to pay and he does a good job.
The problem is that he is not vaccinated from COVID and has no intention of getting vaccinated. He also often bring his VERY annoying 5 yr old with him most weeks. She is not overly active but makes these horrible grunting sounds CONSTANTLY (she talks perfectly fine). Interruppts me constantly and her dad provides no dicipline. I frequenltly tell her to "shut up" which is very rude for me, but it does work on her. I can't stand the child but she does keep her masks on and he religiously wears his mask. She, of course is too young to be vaccinated but they have no plans to vaccinate her.
I have another assistant that used to care for my fish until reliability became a problem, she is currently de-weeding my landscaped areas - there are some beautiful bulbs planted and there used to be other plants until the weeds choked them out. In the spring I will likely pay her to add some bushes to the front where they just moved my gas meter and it looks terrible. I pay her very well for a very hard job. I've also given her money in the past when she has run short. She is NOT vaccinated - she lives with her ex-husband and their two young girls. None of them wear masks. She believes the vaccine causes horrible things and they haven't tested enough even though they are now FDA approved. She's just a rebellious spirit that doesn't trust or believe any politician but watches some terrible extreme right-wing news on her phone (she can't afford cable since she quit her job because she was sure they would fire her). She used to work from home (on the phone and computer) but to save money kept her kids home frequently from daycare (she wasn't allowed to have anybody at home while she was "at work". ) They monitored a number of her phone calls where they could hear her kids in the background and gave her warning after warning. So she just is completely non-obedient, BUT when she is working she works 1000% better than anybody I've ever seen. Amazingly strong and tough. I'm sure they were going to fire her - they given her at least a dozen warnings and told her one more and she would be fired. She still didn't perform as required. Even when her kids are at day care and now one at school - she would leave during work hours to transport one or both to daycare or back home. Her ex-husband works long hours in construction but is a drug addict, Again, not only did she fail to tell me she was not vaccinated - she doesn't even wear a mask. Her mother recently had a kidney transplant (making her high risk) and she STILL refuses to get vaccinated even though she could kill her mother (who is vaccinated)
I have been vaccinated. But still fear catching COVID due to the new strain. Even a mild case could hospitalize me (if there is room). I just recovered from pneumonia - it took 3 months. My lungs are extremely damaged, I have been told I would not survive a ventilator. So here I have all these people close to me that are unvaccinated only because they don't want anybody to tell them what to do and they don't believe in the vaccine but believe it is what is killing people. I get so angry I frankly want to fire them both for refusing to get vaccinated but I had a terribly hard time finding anybody to do this kind of work for me and I can't do most of it myself.
What do I do?
