Tuesday, May 12 2020
In four days, my daughter will be 23. I could tell this morning that it is going to be a hard day for her. She’s not much of a smiler in the best of times, but this morning her face just looked like a blank--no emotion at all. One of the kiddos is suffering physically, the other mentally. I’ll get her out on a walk after I’m done with classes today. I’m not sure it helps her, but I’m a firm believer in fresh air and sunshine--and it can’t hurt!
Ethan says he feels better today. He looks better, and on only two days of steroids. Could it be psychological? Not sure, but it’s good to see him moving around a bit more. Granted, he’s still spending 95% of his time in bed, but his hips are mostly gone, so of course he’s in pain from that. I’m just happy that his gut seems to be feeling better and he can eat. Maybe he’ll start putting on some weight now.
As far as COVID-19, the world is up to 4,229.074 confirmed cases with 289,349 deaths globally. I mentioned that we had a case in Brown County, and one of my students confirmed that the case was someone she knew in Horton. In Hiawatha, they tested the waste water and found confirmation of coronavirus in that. Believe you me, that caused quite a stir--people thought it meant that the drinking water was not safe (not sure how they could confuse waste water with drinking water??) so the local news was busy trying to clear that up. I’m including a screen grab from the Johns Hopkins site, below: Notice how North America and Europe are mostly red? It didn’t look like that in January, I can assure you! It just reminds me of all the disaster movies I’ve ever watched. There’s always that one scene where the show the computer simulation of the earthquake or the missles or the disease spreading and it happens so fast, and you think-- “That could never happen in real life!”--news flash, it’s happening!
It’s hard to believe, but we are actually living through a world-wide pandemic. They never talk about how boring it really is. I guess that wouldn’t make good cinema!
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