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Last Rice Cracker Medley
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Taken just before the winter holidays of 2021 as worries about omicron seemed to have cleared grocery shelves again (or it could have been supply chain or just lots of hungry nut/dried fruit eaters)
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Working in a grocery store during the pandemic
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Free Verse
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Losing a loved one to COVID-19 while waiting for the vaccines to come out in December, 2020.
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An Abundance of Caution: Pre-Thanksgiving Gathering 2021
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Even though everyone in the small group of family planning to gather to celebrate Thanksgiving 2021 was vaccinated, I wanted to be sure that I didn't have Covid and wouldn't spread it to my loved ones. Even though I'd received my booster shot, I wear a mask whenever I'm in indoor, public places, and the test was easy to take, it still made me a little nervous. As expected, it came back negative. I felt much more at ease in gathering for the holiday.
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Fun with masks
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If we have to wear them, why not have fun? Some of the masks I have collected throughout the pandemic.
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camping
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in the wonter
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Loss and Learning in the Age of Covid-19
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2021
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In early February of 2021, I tested positive for Covid-19 and had to quarantine for two weeks on campus. As someone who has some underlying medical conditions, and is generally more anxious about health concerns, I was really scared at the prospect of being alone while sick. However, my case was rather mild and the biggest thing that I ended up struggling with was anxiety throughout my two-week stay.
Around the same time that I tested positive and went into quarantine a family friend, who I had gone to high school with, also tested positive for Covid-19 and had to quarantine at his school. Since his family was close with mine and he was quarantined while I was, I regularly got updates on how his quarantine was shaping up and what symptoms he was having. I was surprised to hear some of the things that he was experiencing, like brain fog and even some vision problems, but Covid had proven to affect everyone in different, and very odd ways, so I just assumed that he had gotten a bad case of it.
Two weeks later, about a week after I had been cleared to return to normal life, my parents came out to Pittsburgh to visit my sister and I and it was upon this trip that we learned that our friend, Nathan, hadn't just had Covid-19. He had a brain tumor.
Hearing this news was surprising and difficult, but it never hit me as hard as I felt like it should have. There was a tragic irony in the fact of him having a brain tumor that I have seen play out in hundreds of stories online and in various communities that I have connections to. They're the stories that people seem to become most infatuated with because they contradict everything we think we understand about life. He was, and will remain in my memory, a bright young man, healthy and athletic and loved by everyone who knew him.
That was eight months ago. It's hard to believe that it's been eight months, but I can't decide if that feels long of short. When I wrote the first version of this story Nathan was still on Hospice care and his doctors had given him weeks left to live. By the time I am editing this story, Nathan has passed away and we, his friends and family and anyone who knew him even briefly, are grieving both the healthy Nathan that we knew and the sick Nathan that we came to know. Though I no longer feel a pang of terror and strong urge to run to my bed because of a notification that his Caring Bridge site has been updated, I am continuously struck by memories of him and moments when I think I see him in a crowd.
I am a small and somewhat distant part of his community, but it is painful to think too hard about all the events that have happened in these past eight months or look back on memories from before we found out about the tumor. Like everyone who loses a loved one, those who love him have asked a thousand questions that will never be answered in the way that we want them to be. One of the biggest ones being this; Would anything have been different if he had not been quarantined for testing positive for Covid-19?
With the type of cancer that he was diagnosed with, the answer is probably no. According to doctors, it is a definitive no. That doesn't keep a grieving human's mind from wondering about the way things could have been under different circumstances.
I have been extremely lucky, during this pandemic, to have my life be relatively unchanged and stable. I have not lost a loved one to Covid-19 and no one in my family was laid off work. I was able to keep my job and have my first year of college, even if it was a lot different than I anticipated.
What I've learned from the past year and a half has been that life continues even when the whole world stops, and sometimes life includes tragedies that don't have anything to do with the thing that caused the world to stop. It's ok if the pain you are feeling has nothing or little to do with the pain that others are feeling. And most of all, it's ok to find joy, hope, love and community in the grief, pain and fear that comes with losing something or someone that you love.
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First Vaccine Dose
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A photo my mom took of me the day I got my first Pfizer vaccine. This day was also the one year anniversary of my grandfather passing away from COVID, so it was a very somber but important day.
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To Say I'm Angry is an Understatement
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Around April 2020
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When my high school went into lockdown in March, I wasn’t too upset. Sure, it would be an adjustment, I thought, but a temporary one. Just two weeks of learning from home and we’d be back to attending school in person in no time. However, two weeks turned into four, then six, and soon enough, my school announced that we wouldn’t be returning. As I came to terms with the fact that I wouldn’t be able to give my friends and favorite teachers the proper goodbye they deserved, tragedy struck: my grandfather, who had been living with dementia for the last few years of his life, contracted COVID-19 in his nursing home and died two days later. Since my family and I couldn’t travel, we had to watch his burial on FaceTime. This was no longer a temporary adjustment like I so hoped it would be. I was okay with converting my entire required graduation project (an art exhibit) into a virtual format and teaching myself how to make a website, despite having no experience whatsoever in web design. I was okay with not being able to see my friends in person. After all, we did have cell phones. But I wasn’t okay with losing my grandpa to this disease, to this pandemic that was caused in part by our then-president’s utter disregard for anyone other than himself and his delusional devotees. I’m not mad at people with medical exemptions who can’t wear masks or get vaccinated. I’m not mad at people who are hesitant to get the vaccine, but open to it. No, I’m mad at the people who refused to do something as simple as putting a piece of cloth over their mouths and noses to prevent the spread of a deadly virus. I’m mad at the people who are requesting religious exemptions from vaccines and trying to obtain fake vaccination cards when, really, they just don’t want to do their part to help others. I’m mad at the people who are purposely spreading misinformation about vaccines. They are the reason we are still in the throes of the pandemic almost two years since it emerged. They are part of the reason why my grandfather and millions of other people are dead. My grandfather did not deserve this. He was a kind, generous man completely devoted to his family. He loved baseball, the Beatles, and his children and grandchildren. He worked tirelessly at multiple jobs to make sure my father, my aunt and my grandma had what they needed to get by. He was the life of every party; at my parents’ wedding he gathered everyone onto the dance floor and got them moving. Even as his physical and mental health deteriorated, he never wavered in his love for all of us. Every academic accomplishment was met with enthusiasm and maybe a fist bump. At what would ultimately be his last Christmas, when we were all exchanging goodbye hugs, he said to me, “We’re proud of everything you’re doing.” Those were his last words to me, and they have stuck with me ever since. I may not have seen him very often in later years, but I miss him every day.
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Pandemic Hobby
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Adult Coloring became my obsession. Here is one of the few hundred I have done.