Covid did not touch our lives much beyond the protocols in the beginning. For a long time it was friends and acquaintances who got it. Then family members, my brother-in-law, Dale, and his son who lived in another state. Neither of them had serious symptoms. The only way they knew it was not just a cold was that they lost their sense of taste and smell. But now that the Delta variant is going around, it is starting to hit a little closer to home. Three weeks ago Debbie Wolfshorndl died of Covid at 68. We did not know her personally, but her husband taught each of my kids at the Christian school. Our hearts go out to Roger and family. Then, while Reed was in the hospital, we found out Paul, who worked under Reed as a mechanic years ago, had just died of Covid in Lincoln, NB. He was younger than us.
Closer to home, there is a friend from church in the ICU with Covid. He and his wife, on the advice of their naturopath, did not get the vaccine. They both got very ill and Jeff, around age 70, was hospitalized. When his condition improved he was sent home. More than a week later, while Reed was in the hospital, Jeff was readmitted with blood clots in his lungs. The clots caused a heart attack, his family said their goodbyes, he was not expected to survive the night. The church has prayed for a miracle, but Jeff passed away September 15, 2021.
I talked to his wife when I brought a meal to their house between hospitalizations. She said they had prayed about taking the vaccine and felt they should not do it. I do not know how she feels about it now and would never ask her. I just hope people are not compounding this difficult time by vaccine shaming them. But I am not writing about the vaccine, I am writing about people. And all I know is that Covid deaths are starting to happen to people we know. God is sovereign, I refuse to live in fear, but I must live in reality. This variant or another will inevitably strike closer to home.
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