It’s Friday folks, and I hope you all are closing out the work with a smile, and have some fun planned for this first full weekend of 2023. Today is 6 January 2023.
OK, so a little recap from earlier in the week. On Monday night, about 9 minutes into the first quarter, Buffalo Bills free safety Damar Hamlin had a cardiac event that required resuscitation on the field and another in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. The young man captured the attention of the country and sports fans around the world. Yesterday, according to reports, he regained consciousness and asked who won the game. The attending physician told the young man that he did… he won the game of life.
Social media went a little nuts. Of course, you had the anti-vax ghouls that immediately blamed COVID vaccinations. You had some poorly informed folks stating things like, “This kind of thing doesn’t happen to young healthy athletes”. Anybody with any knowledge of the subject knows that is a big stinking pile of poo. I mentioned Hank Gathers, a college basketball player from Loyola Marymount University, and his death on the basketball court in 1990. I had someone reply to my post to say they knew two 19-year-old athletes that passed away playing sports. I recalled my own incident… I had a couple of health issues in my youth. I used to be athletic – hard to believe today, but it’s true. I popped my left knee in 1982, then found I had cancer in 1983. Those two things pretty much put a period at the end of my paragraph, college sports were not going to be in the mix for me. I still played ball at the YMCA and other facilities, and while playing at my hometown Y in 1989, I collapsed on the court with a cardiac event. I got lucky, as an EMT was working out at the Y at that time. I’ve been on medication ever since.
The fun part… had a couple of smart-ass retorts from members of the Ignorati… they think they know the mysteries of the Illuminati, but they’re really just ignorant… and that is always fun. I found myself being stalked on LinkedIn by a retired NYC police officer… let’s just say that folks are a lot safer with him in retirement, and Sherlock Holmes doesn’t have to worry about being replaced. He made some ridiculous assumptions about me, and ended up looking foolish. Another clown made a comment about my health based on a ten-year-old photo… his profile pic was a gay porn star… I guess there’s a lot that can be conveyed through a profile pic.
Oh well. Haters are going to hate. They’re also going to make ludicrous assumptions, and practice inductive reasoning, twisting the facts to fit their own box full of assumptions.
Time for me to grab a cup of coffee and a little breakfast. I’ve got a session in a bit.
I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.
Peace y’all.
