With a year delay due to the COVID outbreak, we had our high school class reunion Sept. 24. Waze was a hindrance, and after a long drive on a seasonal road, after instructions from a local, I finally found someone, after a few more asks, who directed me to the private rod-and-gun club. People were not sure of the directions, as they had never been there. One wanted to send me to a different town. What a relief arriving where classmates were celebrating. People say you cannot find your way in New Hampshire, but this was Massachusetts, not far from our high school but nowhere we had gone. Hudson and Goffstown residents are classmates, too.
One of my classmate’s husbands had COVID before the vaccines were available. He was a vibrant funeral home owner before retirement. Now he uses a walker, has a foot drop and in October will have one of his toes “cut off.” His wife said he will get better, but it has been two years and is a long journey. This good-looking, vibrant man is a shell of what he had been. Until I asked my friend, I was thinking her husband had had a stroke or other natural determent. We hear about prolonged COVID, but how many of us see what it does? It was chilling to see the effects on someone’s life and heart-rending watching him leave the club with his walker with that left foot just not operating in the proper manner. Do not go to your next class reunion and be like my friend’s husband. Get your COVID vaccines if you have not gotten them.
Kath Allen
Peterborough