The isolated life.
It's been almost 6 years exactly since I have written in this blog. It seems so strange to do it now. But with current events, I felt a strong desire to document our lives...and the pithy, short posts so common on social media don't seem appropriate. In January, some news stories began to break about localized cases of a novel virus in Wuhan Provence, China. Most of the world barely paid attention to these news stories--China seemed so far away, and after the hyped news stories of the swine flu and the bird flu never materialized into significant, life-changing events for most Americans, I think we all just rolled our eyes and continued on with our lives. In the coming weeks, however, the frequency and urgency of these news stories began to increase. The death toll began to rise exponentially. Countries began scrambling to close borders and limit travel from China, but by this point, neighboring countries, like South Korea, were also beginning to report cases. Physicians fr
