Life Isn't Fair

 When my kids were growing up and they wanted to do an activity the Queen and I disallowed they'd say, "That's not fair." Doesn't every kid say this to their ogre parents? Well, life dealt me a major blow today and I don't know how to handle it.

As you may know last July 17 I attended a charity golf outing in Pennsylvania. Three days after I got back home my buddy who went with me said he'd received a phone call from one of the golf organizers who stated a number of participants had tested positive for the dreaded Covid.

A day later I began to feel somewhat punk. I've been down the sick road before. After all, I'm 75 years old. The next day I didn't want to get out of bed------and I didn't. I stayed in bed for the next three days. I wasn't puking up my guts sick. It's that I was tired. I was tired the way bears are a month into hibernation. On the fourth day I felt somewhat better so I walked around the block with Charlie. It's now August 11. Yesterday I had coffee with my buddy who attended the golf outing with me. He remarked that I seemed to be, well, healthy. I told him I was going to have a Covid test the next day at Walgreens. They'd come up with a plan that I could get tested and there would be no out of pocket expense. That's my kind of test.

Today I drove to Walgreens and jabbed a swab up my nostrils. They told me I would have the results in 24 hours. It only took four. The results came back and it sucks to say I'm Covid free. If I'd been diagnosed positive I could be a statistic in Ohio. I could tell people, my neighbors who have a medical degree in voodoo, who would laugh at me for not getting jabbed. Now I have to tell them I'm China free. I haven't had the dreaded disease. The only way I can write this is to say, I was sick-------period.

Yeah, I know I'm 75 and in that suspect age. I also know I drive my car. I climb ladders. I've had surgeries on my body six times back when people were given gas to knock them out and I survived those.

Life just isn't fair. I was in a small way hoping I did have Covid, but no, God has other plans. Look out Methuselah, here I come.