My 94-year-old auntie doesn't like her photo taken, as I'd mentioned yesterday, but I sure wish I had a photo of this:
She doesn't drive (stopped at 90), so the other day, needing some cash, she walked through the bank's drive-through . . . with her walker.
Oh, yes--Lawrence of Arabia. "Nothing is written."
She doesn't drive (stopped at 90), so the other day, needing some cash, she walked through the bank's drive-through . . . with her walker.
My auntie is pretty sure she's had Covid.
She was VERY sick with chills and shakes and a host of symptoms that went on for weeks.
She hates to "complain", so she really played her illness down in her daily emails to me. She only told me how bad it'd been this past week, when it was over. Some nights she'd been so sick, she said, "I wished I wouldn't wake up in the morning."
Early on, she'd called her doctor's office, and they said if her fever wasn't over 100ยบ, they wouldn't test her.
She said a test wouldn't do anything anyway, and that's true... But still... Isn't it criminal negligence that we don't have enough tests or supplies to meet this?
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Thankfully she has friends and neighbors who check in on her throughout the day. (She hid just how sick she was from them too, but if she'd needed help, it was there.)
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You've maybe read about the 101-year-old man in Italy who recovered from Covid?
I found the article and sent it to my auntie. In it, Gloria Lisi, the deputy mayor of the Italian city of Rimini, said,
I found the article and sent it to my auntie. In it, Gloria Lisi, the deputy mayor of the Italian city of Rimini, said,
Where've I heard that before?."He shows that even at 101, the future is not written."
Oh, yes--Lawrence of Arabia. "Nothing is written."
There must be many like her
ReplyDeleteGZ: There must be many, many more, indeed.
ReplyDeleteI myself know a couple other people who are sure they must have had Covid but when asked were told they wouldn't be tested (not enough tests to use on people who weren't dangerously ill.)
And a couple others who didn't even bother to ask.
Which is interesting, because when I lived in Morocco, the Arabs were fond of saying, "EVERYTHING is written." (Perhaps Lawrence's words were in response to that assertion -- I haven't seen the movie in YEARS!)
ReplyDeleteSTEVE: Yes, you're right---Lawrence says it as a rejoinder to his Muslim Arab friend Sherif Ali (Omar Sharif), who insists everything is written and thinks Lawrence is blasphemous (at least at first).
ReplyDeleteFrex = Fresca