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When Life Sucks, What Do You Do?
Even when life sucks, YOU choose what you do with it.
Christmas 2022 has come and gone. And this was a truly, spectacularly lousy holiday for me. It sucked. Lots.
First, yes, I acknowledge that I’m whining. But I have a point to make and you need the context.
It began Wednesday night when, for the first time in years, I felt a cold or something coming on. The next morning, I felt majorly off and unwell, took a COVID test — and it was negative. But I felt progressively worse all day and had a fever that night. Friday morning, I took another COVID test — and it was positive. Christmas weekend — with COVID. Delightful.
And that wasn’t the worst of it. No, it sucks much worse. My wife got a call Thursday morning that her mom was taken to the hospital. She packed up a few things and went the 2 hours north to take care of her mentally challenged aunt, who had been staying with her mom.
FYI — every Christmas is spent with my mother-in-law and family at her place. We have a large meal, open gifts, and are there with each other.
They found a problem that they are working on resolving — but my mother-in-law is still in the hospital. What happens next is utterly unknown — so we’re all in limbo with this.
