Since my last published post I wrote two more somewhat lengthy posts but discarded both of them.
I don't feel like being clever or infuriating (pick one) today.
On Groundhog Day (February 2nd), a friend I have known for 50 years observed his 98th birthday.
On the same day, our pastor's 88-year-old mother, whom everyone called 'Saint Rita', died from complications of the COVID-19 virus. The very next day, which was yesterday, February 3rd, was the birthday of her husband, to whom she had been married for 62 years. This is a different man from the one I mentioned in the previous paragraph.
Four people whom we knew well have now died of COVID-19. Tom, Craig (both last spring), Carolyn in January, and now Rita this month.
Ob-la-dee, Ob-la-dah, sometimes life goes on and sometimes it suddenly stops.
RIP, Tom (69), Craig (55), Carolyn (79), and Rita (88).
You will be missed by the ones of us who knew you. You will be joined by all of us sooner than any of us would like to think.
I am sorry for your losses.
ReplyDeleteWhen the numbers become names it really hits home.
Sue, yes it does.
DeleteBob, you are totally entitled to blame these deaths on Covid but I do find it illogical.
ReplyDeleteMy best friend, at the time, died after hitting a tyre wall at Croft, he was twenty one. I got a new best friend who died of bowel cancer he died at forty five. My dad died at fifty five and my brother at fifty six. They all died before Covid was invented.
Get a grip, folk die with or without Covid. Dying is the same as birth, it's just one of those things a mature adult should learn to deal with. It's all part and parcel of being a human.
Adrian, of course everyone dies eventually. The mortality rate is 100% over the long haul. My mother died at 47. My father died at 60. My friend Len is still going strong at 98 but he will go too. None of those facts minimize the terrible effect of this particular pandemic one iota.
DeleteBob at least you can still vote from the afterlife.
DeleteAdrian, and if I can’t, someone will do it in my place. Ain’t democracy grand
DeleteIt is Bob. God moves in a mysterious way, his wonders to perform.
DeleteI am sorry for the loss of your friends. Sad times. Hopefully there will be an end soon to this pandemic.
ReplyDeleteHave you and Mrs. RWP been able to schedule an appointment for a vaccine?
Kathy, we have not. There was a possibility of driving 75 miles to another county this week to get the first dose but we decided against doing that.
DeleteI'm so sorry, Bob. The loss of people you care about is so hard to come to grips with. Feb 3rd was my sweet mama's birthday and I spent most of the day remembering, laughing, grieving. We knew these days were coming, but were we ready?
ReplyDeleteMPam, I don’t think we’re ever ready to lose someone we love.
DeleteI am sorry for your losses. It is difficult to see our friends go like that. I pray for an end to this pandemic.
ReplyDeleteBonnie, it can’t end soon enough.
DeletePlease accept my sympathies. It is so hard to lose loved ones. This disease makes it even harder.
ReplyDeleteEmma, thank you. Three of them were friends from church and the fourth one served as best man at my son’s wedding.
DeleteWe are so fortunate here. I don't even know anyone who caught it. A friend of mine who is from Russia lost her brother aged 40 and thats as close as it has come.
ReplyDeleteThis thing is completely indiscriminate and I'm sorry, Bob.
Thank you, kylie. Our son and his wife and one of their sons all had it in December and have now recovered. Our daughter and one of her sons also had it in early January and have also recovered.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry for what the losses mean to you and I would be sorry regardless of how they had died.
ReplyDeleteAdrian's argument that one should not blame a death on something he does not believe in and 'death happens' is fallacious. Reductio ad absurdum one would do away with all health services, safety features on cars etc etc and just leave people to die regardless of cause. It would certainly keep the population under control.
Thank you, Graham.. I agree with you. Death may be inevitable, common to all, but it is also a loss to those who are alive and should not be treated with callousness.
DeleteOh how deeply sad, I'm sorry to hear this, so many are losing people at such a pace. Sending love across the water to you both X
ReplyDeleteRuby-Michelle, thank you. This pandemic cannot end soon enough.
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