Please raise a glass to my late friend Jeff.
Filled with whatever poison you imbibe to remember your friends. He was a great character, and deserves to be floated to Valhalla on an ocean of booze (or, you know, apple juice).
Caught Covid in the nursing home, apparently aggravated by receiving the booster (how they didn't know he had covid before that point, who knows?). He had respiratory problems anyway, not to mention a catalogue of other physical problems (truth be told, he should have been dead already, but he was too stubborn to die). It got quite messy there at the end, with the medical staff trying to save him while he suffered most of the torments of the damned. They finally asked his family if they should continue or pull the plug, and they chose mercy. (He was already mostly incoherent from Altzheimer's anyway, so his opinion was apparently not solicited)
I loved the guy like a brother (well, we called each other adoptive brothers). He was a charming rat-bastard, and the two are not mutually exclusive (perhaps you know a few yourself). Then the dementia hit, hard and fast. Two months in the nursing home, and that was all she wrote. Life sucks, and death sucks worse. That's a crappy eulogy, but maybe I can do better later.
-- Mal
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I'm sorry you lost your great friend, I believe if I had met him I would have liked him.
Covid is such a sad, terrible way to go. And it worries me because my own brother is in a nursing home now. Luckily my brother is vaccinated, but these days we can't count on others doing the same. Wouldn't it be a kinder world if we all took the same precautions to keep each other safe?
Jeff is in a better place now, where the beer is free and everyone is safe.
