My Dad has had dire health problems for all of our life, but things got considerably worse when I was in junior high.
She was hospitalized twice within a various year period, with one time being the result of a blood clot, and another the result of a hemorrhage from taking too many blood thinners to address the blood clot.
I was terrified that I might not see our mother again when she was taken to the hospital in an ambulance during the minute episode. But thanks to the grace of God, she made it out all right and survived all of those near death experiences. However, her health problems have simply increased over the past many years straight. She fell on her tailbone in 2018 and her ability to walk was greatly diminished overnight. I have been in and out of hospital rooms with her ever since. Then when she fell and snapped her tibia this year, things only continued to go downhill. I don’t prefer hospitals, but at least she’s able to utilize the modern hospital that was recently finished with its construction over the past year. They even have isolated heating and cooling systems in most of the rooms. To keep viral particles from spreading from room to room, the architects that designed the modern hospital went out of their way to prioritize containment. That’s one positive side effect from designing a modern hospital during the start stages of a global viral pandemic. Even our own room when I had a kidney brick recently had a separate heating and cooling proposal inside.