It is hard for each of us to stay indoors during this period of the pandemic virus, but it is essential that we follow the Government's advice and instructions and do so for the safety of all of us.
Because of my own terminal blood cancer condition and absence of any effective immune system over the past seven years, I have been obliged to be confined to my house, my bed or enter hospital (one or the other or all three) for nine months of each of the first five years of my illness, as well as have around ten life-saving cancer operations plus chemo and radiotherapy treatments.
Ironically, my best year since I first contracted a terminal blood cancer, I consider as having been last year, during which I had six different operations, under full anesthetic, to have a total of three different cancers removed from my forehead, bottom, and neck (plus twenty sessions of radiotherapy).
I tell you this, not to 'big myself up' or make out I am braver than you or anyone else. I am not! I get scared of dying just like you or anyone else. I also fear for my loved ones attracting this deadly disease and even dying because of this Coronavirus pandemic. It would be foolish in the extreme not to be scared under the circumstances. No, the reason I tell you this in this morning's post is to stress that IT IS NORMAL TO BE FEARFUL! IT IS WISE TO BE FEARFUL! IT IS SENSIBLE TO TAKE ALL PRECAUTIONS UNTIL ISOLATION CAN END FOR US ALL, AND YOU ARE PLAYING WITH THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SELF AND OTHERS IF YOU DO NOT STAY INSIDE YOUR HOUSE AND STAY SAFE BY FOLLOWING THE GOVERNMENT GUIDELINES!
So please help our marvellous NHS and all its workers, plus respect the service of every emergency worker in the land by assisting them to do their jobs without hindrance and in the best way possible. Hopefully, my song today should remind you to 'Beware of the dangers which surround us all' and to stay inside our homes as advised and instructed. Life will never be precisely the same again as we have known it to be, and I strongly suspect that the best thing that will emerge from this global crisis for those who live through it, will be to never take life for granted again or those natural human things like walking, mixing, kissing, holding hands, loving and being with family, friends and loved ones at special occasions in their lives.
Please, stay indoors and stay safe. Whatever anyone may tell you to the contrary, believe me when I tell you that it is better to be alive than dead. I have been close to the latter too many times and I know on which side of the green sod, I prefer to rest.
Love and peace Bill xxx