I just came back from a trip to essentially say goodbye to a life long friend. Many people are starting to die. It's sad. I've already come to grips that many more friends will be dying: it's starting to accelerate. Even though i understand why it's happening, it's still difficult to accept. About two years ago I made a decision to go visit as many friends and relatives as I can possibly see, for this very reason. This year has been busy so far. They don't understand... they won't. The deed has been done.

Most of my family had passed prior to the insanity, but my older brother fits this category. He never discusses what's going on with himself medically, but did acknowledge he developed Afib back in '22. Then there's my SIL who is back in the hospital as I type this with crazy pancreas/duodenum/diverticulum crap going on. The wife's godmother (I've written about her being the god monster here before) died 3 months ago from colon/intestinal/pancreatic cancer.

It's kind of ironic: All of the above people ostracized us for not getting vaxxed back in the day, and in effect they're ostracizing us again by dying. I'm mostly ok with my brother, but Mrs. Duck has taken it kind of hard in regards to her side of the family. She basically is done with them - wants to get farther away from them. We're working on it.