Yesterday my principal texted us to tell us that a colleague’s husband had passed away unexpectedly. The colleague had surgery for a broken arm resulting from a car accident two weeks ago. She came home and an hour later her husband was dead. He was in his mid-50’s and in good health.
Last night I couldn’t fall asleep. I was terrified I wouldn’t wake up.
We’re so focused on this one virus and the possible implications if we get it, we forget that people can die of heart attacks or strokes without any warning. It could happen any time.
It really put today and tomorrow and my sadness around how we are, and are not, celebrating it into perspective.
Sending love and light.
I fully understand.
You said it better than I did.
It is such a miracle and wonder that even if only electronically many of us are able to send out love and feel it sent back to us.
It has been a hard year with many things not being as we most wanted them to be. But there has also been so much support and caring and efforts at kindness. You and your readers/responders have lifted me through some times of doubt and fear and worry.
I look at this coming time period and the spread predicted. You, noemikjames, do the impossible and surmount the impassable and support others. THANK you for each and every post and for creating the time you do not have to do this.
Yup, in my tiny clinic we have lost multiple patients since the pandemic started. NONE because of Covid, but because of heart failure, stroke, depression, and a heart attack. All were afraid of COVID exposure and refused to go to the hospital, even when we begged them to. Our country cannot continue on like this. The true cost of the lockdowns and paranoia is becoming more and more apparent.
Oh, wow. I’m sorry to read this. Lots of love to your colleague. What a sad ending to the year.
One of my colleagues in his early 60s died of a heart attack this summer. I have to wonder if the icu hadn’t been so full of covid patients and the hospital staff so frazzled if he’d have had a better chance of survival.
Yep. My husband passed away unexpectedly at age 44 on 11/1. Not at all due to COVID. Life still happens (or not) outside of the pandemic.
Oh KeAnne I’m so sorry. So, so sorry. Sending love and light.