It does seem like you were on here talking about how severe your health issues were. I don’t remember exactly, but wasn’t there one in which you thought that you were not long for this world? Now you are trying to be Arnold?
Not that I’m mad at you for that. I have to admit that I was concerned about you. I have to assume that people don’t tell strangers about their health unless it is pretty serious.
But in my job I often deal with children who have conditions in which they are unlikely to live to be adults. The first instinct is to feel sorry for them, but that is the opposite of what they need. They need an adult with a positive attitude who keeps a clear head to keep providing them what they need now, regardless of what their future may hold.
I’ve never heard about the deaths of any of those kids, but I know some, if not all of them, must have died by now. But, I have had three students I knew die suddenly. All three times it was from incredible stupidity.
The first was an Asian kid who fit the Asian stereotype of making good grades. But he was a degenerate partier on the weekends. One Saturday night, he came home wasted as usual. As usual, he took a shower to bring himself out of it somewhat before bed. But this time, he slipped and hit his head on the soap holder and died with the water running over him.
Another boy was ID, formerly known as retarded. Mildly retarded relatively speaking. His family took him to a water park and for whatever reason, let him swim in a creek outside the park. He got tangled up in vegetation and drowned.
Then there was a 6th grade girl who was special ed for traumatic brain injury. She had been injured when a ceiling fan came loose and fell on her head. Talk about a pratfall of a way to become a special ed student. She died when her uncle ran into a light pole with her in the front seat and no seat belt at about 1:00 AM. Why was her uncle driving her around at 1:00 AM? Your guess is as good as mine.
Oh well. Time to fire up the crack pipe.