re: Worst 13 months of my life

Very few people go through life without some significant hardships. For me there were several heartbreaks when girlfriends or marriages didn't work out, but those tend to get solved by finding someone better for you, and you look back and think that it happened the way it did so you would eventually find the better one.

As far as dealing with deaths, in the span of one month in 2020 due to Covid pneumonia I lost a niece, a first cousin, and an uncle. My brother-in-law who lost his daughter also lost both his sister and mother. Five funerals in a month. It was difficult for me to go tell my mother that she lost a niece and then a nephew, and also to tell my daughter she lost her favorite cousin and an uncle. We try to accept that human life is finite and celebrate the lives of those who have come to the end.

"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next." - Gilda Radner

I hope you have a good a result as I did with the rotator. You need to retire the motorcycle thing.

Since my daughter is living far away, and family is smaller and more spread out, I'm feeling more isolated these days. Sometimes when I see a group of four or five retired guys having a morning cup of coffee I wish I had that. Maybe one day we can have an O-T morning coffee meet-up group once a week just to vent to each other. Or Hooters on a Friday.