1/ At the height of the COVID epidemic first wave that hit the original ground zero, Seattle, Washington, my husband volunteered to work as an ICU doctor instead of seeing patients virtually in his practice. We took a large financial hit, but it was 100% worth it...
https://twitter.com/HealthInsider/status/1474053473096380421
2/ Later that year, he was diagnosed with AML, a type of cancer that nearly killed him the same day he was diagnosed. I couldn't be with him while he was hospitalized because of COVID. I couldn't be with him while he underwent treatment because of COVID...
3/ I stupidly thought that once vaccines were available, we were going to be able to breathe a sigh of relief while the rate of infection decreased. I thought we'd be able to see our kids again without worrying about him getting COVID.
4/ He had a stem cell transplant in June and is doing well so far, but he literally has no immunity to anything and won't for a year or so. He has a whole new immune system. Every vaccine he's ever had was washed away by the ablation of his stem cells.
5/ The fact that there is a vaccine available but people refuse to take it because they just do not give a shit about anyone but themselves is maddening sickening and I will forever be pissed about it. Fuck anyone who refuses to get a vaccine because "muh freedumbs."
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