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God. You invite us to love one another.Actually, it is less an invitation. It’s more like a command. It’s really hard. It’s not a command to love the whole world. You do that.It’s not a command to love our enemies. That’s a different command.This is a command to love each other. You told Peter to […]

Life goes on. And so does death. Even without viruses, we have death. Even with them, we have life. +++ If you don’t have a person designated as your health care representative, please designate, on the form that is legally acceptable in your state or locality, the person that you want to represent your decisions when […]

I could choose to become an expert in virus transmission and treatment.  I could choose to become an expert in political analysis.  I could choose to become an expert on health system supply lines. I could choose to become an expert on anticipatory dread.  I could build my expertise by reading everything I could about […]

Rich Dixon continues his story: (part one is here: December, 1987 – continued) +++ Five days post-accident, neurosurgeons fused three vertebrae, joining crushed bones with metal plates and screws and a chunk of transplanted hip bone. I emerged from surgery encased in a halo brace, a metal jacket attached to vertical rods clamped to a […]

“Fine. It’s fine. Everything is fine. “ It wasn’t, of course. The patient had just died. The nurse who said things were fine and I had watched the chest compressions, watched them stop, watched the rest of the team walk away. And now she and I and a couple other people were taking care of […]