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I benefitted from COVID-19 and I feel a little bad about it
No doubt all of us have suffered these past 15 months. Just my nervous system alone is still struggling to deal with the anxiety around COVID. And I know I am not special. We have all struggled and seen suffering and even deaths happen. I also have no doubt that some of the tragedy could have been diminished. But I am not going to say how that should have happened. It is too late and there are too many people who will forever live with the grief of this pandemic.
My family-my father’s entire side of the family-got COVID back in December. It was an extremely contagious variant. My grandmother had died and we all came together for her funeral. She was the light of all of our lives. To lose her at age 96 was hard, but not impossible. We got to have her for so very long and she was deeply loved by all of us. There was no way we were not going to gather to honor her.
But, my brother, bless his heart, brought it back for us from Utah. He had a “cold”, he said. But, 4 days, 7 days, 10 days after, we all got it. All 80 or so of us, across 3 counties. We were lucky, however. No one died or even got very sick. A few of the elders got an infusion and went home to rest after finding out they were positive. The rest of us just suffered from no taste, smell, headaches and the grumpies. A few got a fever or chills, but for the most…
