Thanks, China

My grandfather and my grandmother are in the hospital, both have bilateral pneumonia, both in respiratory failure, both signed DNRs and DNIs, and are not in the room together because of a fricking charting issue and China-virus worries.

They would have been married for 60 years in April. My grandfather is isolated right now because he supposedly tested positive for China-virus (even though they tested him last Friday and said he was good and then tested him just a couple hours ago and said he had it so who the frick knows if he has it or not as test results do not come back in mere hours). I can’t imagine what both of them are going through and I wish I could be there to give whatever comfort I could.

Making matters worse is my mom’s younger brother, their only son, is on hospice because he’s eaten up with cancer. This is likely to kill him as well. He’s in his early 50s, four kids.

But thanks to goddamn China, I can’t go up there, my mother, their daughter, can’t go up there. None of my brothers can go up there, my dad can’t go up there. Nobody. They’re alone and are probably about to pass on. Unbelievable.