Being laid up for a long time you start to become melancholy and it affects your overall outlook on life. ...
You don't know how true that is
in1999 we had a family reunion on Fripp Island Ga. My nephew came down with a staff infection (?) that he almost died from. During his long recovery he became depressed with the the feeling that his life wasn't worth living.
This then progressed to him getting into drugs and eventually living on the streets of Seattle. It took about 7 years and many stints in rehab before he finally decided that he wanted to turn his life around.
That was 8 years ago and during that time he was hospitalized with staff infection multiple times.
Last year labor day we found out that he was in last stage kidney failure.
It took many months to get in the kidney program in Seattle and just last month his brother was OK's for a kidney trans to him and he was in great spirits.
His outlook on life has been great and he is the kind of young man we new he'd grow into.
On Sept 2nd he passed away in his sleep. Just 1 month shy of his new kidney. Our family is devastated and with Covid cannot get together to grieve and honor his life.
It has been a rough couple of weeks