Not sure why. Not sure the truth why. The last one was, for my friend, a relief. I think. I'd been going to his and his wife's place for years. We met when I began working for him way back in 1984 (ish), 83 / 84 too far back to try and put an exact date on it. The Xmas before Covid, 2019, i got sick. Bad sick. Even for me. It was something like the Flu but worse than I had ever experienced in my life. It tried to shut off my heart, which I thought a little rude, if this Virus wanted to live on in me. And then just now I thought that maybe that is / was in its design. A lot of people died. A lot got better. Starting a few months later. I was never diagnosed with either the flu or Covid, or any other type of Viral infection simply because I was too sick to get to a doctor and I would rather have died than held alive through artificial means. Besides, I know my body. Been living in it now for just over 63 years, but what i used then, i learned, self taught sort of, starting at age 4 months, the very first time i banged my hand on something hard. That evolved into coming off my bike at 10 when I skidded around a corner because of some loose gravel, to later suffering through all kinds of childhood sicknesses each and every kid gets in order for the immunization system, built into each of us, to come up to speed. I know my internal repair system because i monitor it. A cut or a scratch appears and I treat it and watch it. Wow, I just re-read the title, did I get off track thanks to that Virus. Thinking it was the flu and having never been bed ridden ever by any sickness, i accepted I should be well enough for Xmas by more than a week. At the mid end of November I attended this friend's 70th birthday party. Two weeks later to the day I started showing the first signs of the flu. As per I started taking paracetamol. I can take asperin to the same effect but like many i get nose bleeds if i take too many over a 24 - 48 hour period. Closer to 24 than 48 but never later. Anyway... I left it to the last minute (based on my friend's wife grocery shop for Xmas day for so many people. I was three meals because we would get on the drink and I would sleep the night there and go home after breakfast. I rang my friend and told him I was sick with the flu, no one had even heard Covid or what they first called it to start with, same as that beer. I think Xmas day was a Wednesday in 2019 and I figured my mate's wife wouldn't buy the meats until Monday or Tuesday, so I called Saturday or Friday and told them to count me out. I was sick and I did not want them to get what I had. It had ripped me to pieces and both of them were older than me. So I quarantined myself. I never left the house, after a forced drive into town to do one last shop. The following year he rang me and told me he and his wife were not doing Xmas and my visit to them was off. I was uninvited. I acted out, like a child who understood the friendship was over and not by there own doing when there had been more than reason enough to end it along the way. Long story short, he and wife and their youngest son, number blocked me on their phones, which, i did not know before they had, it removes them from my contact list in my phone. I never really know why I do the things I do, things I can't help myself from doing, as if they are or had been somehow programed into my life to live out the consequences but my friend knows the truth, even if his wife and son do not. W. Ps. Not one of those three came by to check on me say after the New Year. I'm talking 2019 / Jan 2020, the Xmas I told them I was sick as a dog and didn't want them to catch it. His son was entirely different. Someone, somehow hacked my PC using an open source OS and going in through my email client / email addresses. I may have hinted to his son that I suspected him. (He was the only person I knew who knew that OS other than me and the hack was local.) Friends... I hope yours are better than mine. W.
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Not sure the truth why.
The last one was, for my friend, a relief. I think. I'd been going to his and his wife's place for years. We met when I began working for him way back in 1984 (ish), 83 / 84 too far back to try and put an exact date on it.
The Xmas before Covid, 2019, i got sick. Bad sick. Even for me. It was something like the Flu but worse than I had ever experienced in my life. It tried to shut off my heart, which I thought a little rude, if this Virus wanted to live on in me.
And then just now I thought that maybe that is / was in its design. A lot of people died. A lot got better. Starting a few months later.
I was never diagnosed with either the flu or Covid, or any other type of Viral infection simply because I was too sick to get to a doctor and I would rather have died than held alive through artificial means. Besides, I know my body. Been living in it now for just over 63 years, but what i used then, i learned, self taught sort of, starting at age 4 months, the very first time i banged my hand on something hard. That evolved into coming off my bike at 10 when I skidded around a corner because of some loose gravel, to later suffering through all kinds of childhood sicknesses each and every kid gets in order for the immunization system, built into each of us, to come up to speed.
I know my internal repair system because i monitor it. A cut or a scratch appears and I treat it and watch it.
Wow, I just re-read the title, did I get off track thanks to that Virus.
Thinking it was the flu and having never been bed ridden ever by any sickness, i accepted I should be well enough for Xmas by more than a week.
At the mid end of November I attended this friend's 70th birthday party. Two weeks later to the day I started showing the first signs of the flu. As per I started taking paracetamol. I can take asperin to the same effect but like many i get nose bleeds if i take too many over a 24 - 48 hour period. Closer to 24 than 48 but never later. Anyway... I left it to the last minute (based on my friend's wife grocery shop for Xmas day for so many people. I was three meals because we would get on the drink and I would sleep the night there and go home after breakfast.
I rang my friend and told him I was sick with the flu, no one had even heard Covid or what they first called it to start with, same as that beer. I think Xmas day was a Wednesday in 2019 and I figured my mate's wife wouldn't buy the meats until Monday or Tuesday, so I called Saturday or Friday and told them to count me out. I was sick and I did not want them to get what I had. It had ripped me to pieces and both of them were older than me. So I quarantined myself. I never left the house, after a forced drive into town to do one last shop.
The following year he rang me and told me he and his wife were not doing Xmas and my visit to them was off. I was uninvited. I acted out, like a child who understood the friendship was over and not by there own doing when there had been more than reason enough to end it along the way.
Long story short, he and wife and their youngest son, number blocked me on their phones, which, i did not know before they had, it removes them from my contact list in my phone.
I never really know why I do the things I do, things I can't help myself from doing, as if they are or had been somehow programed into my life to live out the consequences but my friend knows the truth, even if his wife and son do not. W.
Ps. Not one of those three came by to check on me say after the New Year. I'm talking 2019 / Jan 2020, the Xmas I told them I was sick as a dog and didn't want them to catch it. His son was entirely different. Someone, somehow hacked my PC using an open source OS and going in through my email client / email addresses.
I may have hinted to his son that I suspected him. (He was the only person I knew who knew that OS other than me and the hack was local.)
Friends... I hope yours are better than mine. W.