Hey - how is your boy doing?
Thanks for asking - he’s doing well!!
Was in the hospital for 8 days and almost on a vent on Day 2. Out of ICU on Day 6.
First week out he was taking it very easy. He got tired out quickly with walking and stuff. Second week he was taking longer walks (around the block) and doing okay. Just could not take in deep breaths on his inhaler thing they gave him for exercizing.
He went into work for some non-strenuous office work during the end of that second week so that was good for him to earn some money and the place really missed him while he was gone.
And they are going to give him a “break” and won’t force him to get vaccinated at the moment. They are giving him until the new year. (I’m guessing so he’ll be around for the holiday rush.)
He had no plans to get vaccinated before, during or after his bout of Covid. He already lost one job last spring due to not being vaccinated.
He has submitted paperwork for an entirely different line of work (electrician) so hopefully that moves along. A learning/apprenticeship program. He said he’s researched it and many of the small shops don’t require vaccines.
He’s a bright, hard-working guy and will do well in whatever he endeavors to do.
Hmm. With all of the difficulties presented by the vaccine and how we have to endeavor, it reminds me of the speech by that Indian in “The Outlaw Josey Wales”:
Lone Watie : “I wore this frock coat in Washington, before the war. We wore them because we belonged to the five civilized tribes. We dressed ourselves up like Abraham Lincoln. We only got to see the Secretary of the Interior, and he said: “Boy! You boys sure look civilized!” he congratulated us and gave us medals for looking so civilized. We told him about how our land had been stolen and our people were dying. When we finished he shook our hands and said, “endeavor to persevere!” They stood us in a line: John Jumper, Chili McIntosh, Buffalo Hump, Jim Buckmark, and me - I am Lone Watie. They took our pictures. And the newspapers said, “Indians vow to endeavor to persevere.”
“We thought about it a long time — ‘Endeavor to persevere.’ And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXsAdx51gCk