This has likely been the LONGEST WEEK EVER. Not really awful — I booked a total of 5 speeches (which is awesome!) — it just felt like it dragged on and on. One highlight is we got a bit of snow last night. We had maybe a 1/2 inch by the time it quit, which was an hour or so after the photo below was taken.
So many of my Facebook friends have COVID.
Not just a little sick, but hospital and family asking for prayers/complete healing kind of sick. So scary. One FB friend (who also rode my bus a LONG time ago), spent 30+ hours in the ER in Scottsburg… no hospital beds available there or in Louisville. Ended up transferring her to Seymour. I noticed another friend asking for prayers for both her brothers that “have a long road ahead.” 😢
So as I’m scrolling past all the sick people, I see my brother and wife shared a photo from a restaurant in Vegas with friends — and no masks. He/wife have already had COVID twice and have been vaccinated and boosted.
I’m still limiting my exposure, wearing a mask when I go inside places, and washing my hands like it’s my job. I just don’t feel bulletproof.
Remember to order your free COVID-19test kits if you haven’t already. When mine arrive, I’ll store them with the other two boxes I purchased right before there weren’t any available to buy. How does that work anyway? Stores and pharmacies totally sell out, and just a couple short weeks later the federal government has bajillions of them to ship for free?
TIL (Today I Learned): Margaret Bulkley lived as a man in order to be a surgeon. She climbed the ranks of the army to Inspector General and performed the first successful C-Section in Africa. It was only discovered she was female after her death in 1865.