A fellow I know from grad school -- he started out doing philosophy, but then became a medical doctor -- was saying at one point earlier just this year that he was thinking of leaving the medical side of things, and becoming an administrator instead. He'd signed something like 60 death certificates in less than two years, and it was about all he could take. People calling him a liar with their last breath before he intubated them, a desperate last step almost no one ever came back from.
Part of my luck is that it is just the nature of my world now that I was practicing "social isolation" long before it became cool. Not because I like the idea, mind you. But I have so far dodged the bullet. I've had my own adventures with medicine, mind you. I was gutted last December (bowel resection is the polite term) for a precancerous polyp. Two feet of my large intestine removed. So now I can say my colon is a semi-colon.
But no COVID, no flu, no cold. My allergies are same same. No food allergies (per Stacey). Just, basically, no human contact.
I’m fascinated by this question as well. So, new studies show that people with food allergies (I’m celiac) and asthma (John) may be afforded some kind of natural immunity. Do either of you have something like that? Because we haven’t gotten it yet (I’m very careful, but still), knock on wood.
A fellow I know from grad school -- he started out doing philosophy, but then became a medical doctor -- was saying at one point earlier just this year that he was thinking of leaving the medical side of things, and becoming an administrator instead. He'd signed something like 60 death certificates in less than two years, and it was about all he could take. People calling him a liar with their last breath before he intubated them, a desperate last step almost no one ever came back from.
Part of my luck is that it is just the nature of my world now that I was practicing "social isolation" long before it became cool. Not because I like the idea, mind you. But I have so far dodged the bullet. I've had my own adventures with medicine, mind you. I was gutted last December (bowel resection is the polite term) for a precancerous polyp. Two feet of my large intestine removed. So now I can say my colon is a semi-colon.
But no COVID, no flu, no cold. My allergies are same same. No food allergies (per Stacey). Just, basically, no human contact.
I’m fascinated by this question as well. So, new studies show that people with food allergies (I’m celiac) and asthma (John) may be afforded some kind of natural immunity. Do either of you have something like that? Because we haven’t gotten it yet (I’m very careful, but still), knock on wood.