As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise close to home, it has set up hypochondriacal terror in my brain these past weeks. Despite exercising, eating lots of vegetables, meditating, wearing a mask whenever I’m in public, and incessantly washing my hands, I jump in panic whenever I hear someone coughing or sneezing. To […]
One year ago, our family was in an uproar. A close family member needed brain surgery, which was scary enough. Then, a week after this major procedure, he contracted a life threatening form of bacterial meningitis. I visited him many times as he fought for his life in the hospital. He was so out of […]
