I got my computer yesterday, but I was still too weak. Today is much better, and, after I successfully negotiated with a nurse not to give me lowering blood pressure medication, as those crazy numbers (high in the 70 and 80s) were, using a computer jargon, keeping me low on resources.
I must admit I was lucky. Lucky because it did not happen to me while on vacation in Dominican Republic. I was lucky that when I got up at 3 AM in pain, I was able to connect the dots and understand what was happening to me, that I did not go for a pain killer, but took nitroglycerin, which we always have at home (never used before), that I asked my son to take me to the emergency room, and I got to the hospital still on time, they did ECG and I was looking at those chaotic movements and I knew it couldn’t be normal, and they confirmed that I was having a heart attack. And since then there were people and people around, I quickly got IVs and pipes all over me, then transfer to another Hospital where a cardiologist was waiting to check the arteries and they put a stent…
I did not touch my computer since Saturday, and I went to check my Junk Folder, and to my huge surprise I saw there so many wishes of speedy recovery, friendly messages that mean so much to every human. How could my computer decide that it was junk?
No, it is anything but junk. This is what gives people strength, a unique feeling of being a member of Active Rain community, which is, basically, a virtual community. I think this is a phenomenon where common interests, common respect made a virtual community filled with life, filled with real emotions, and made it in a sense more human than some non-virtual venues.
My computer should be ashamed of itself. This is my community, and these are my friends.
And thank you so much for thinking of me. There is nothing more precious.
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