Happy New Year!
It's 2022 and it's my first day back to work today. I had a hard time waking myself and finding the courage to get up this morning. Holidays allowed me to sleep and get up late so this will be challenging. And tomorrow, Tia and Jigz will be back to school so I'm trying to put them to bed early but for them to fall asleep is another story. One thing is for sure, the holiday is over and we all have to get up early in the morning starting tomorrow.
I'm half awake when I came to work. Do my normal routine of tidying up the shop. I can see that they were busy yesterday based on the state of the place. Cleaning will help me warm up. The shop was quiet. Not many people coming in to buy carpets today. And there are not many people inside the shopping centre. I'm thinking because people spend through Christmas and so they are saving their money now. Or maybe they are busy taking down their Christmas decorations. And speaking of decorations, ours are still up. We were about to put it in the shed today but the rain and snow halted our plan.
Back to work, I was panicking as usual when I don't have any sales in 2 hours. But I received a message from my boss saying,
"Don't want you to panic this morning if it's not busy. I never had a sale until 11 o'clock yesterday and lifted 400 in an hour. 🤣🤣 See you just after 1."
In which I replied,
"Should I start panicking after 11? 🤣"
And he said,
"Yes.🤣🤣"
And 11 o'clock comes and still not a single sale so I send him a message,
"PANIC MODE 🚨 ".
Hahaha, I had a good laugh and we love that emojis. I'm grateful to have two cool bosses! They're super nice. Then he comes before 1 o'clock and he told me he is still coughing for three weeks now. He's constantly getting a lateral and PCR Test and he doesn't have covid just a bad cough. He started coughing and a customer is checking out the carpets hanging on the rail. I told Paul,
"It's not easy to cough this time of the pandemic, customers will think you've got covid."
The lady customer overheard it and said,
My husband doesn't have a cough and he just died with Covid 6 weeks ago. Something we didn't believe before. We are both vaccinated but my husband has asthma. He's 53. When we call for an ambulance because he can't breathe, we never thought he's gonna die. He doesn't look too sick to die. He doesn't have a cough but he got colds and only when they check his oxygen that they find out that it is very low. And he got worse and worse, he was taken to the ICU and he died.
And I'm here already, I'm always out because it never sinks to me that he's no longer here. When my phone rings I still thought it's him ready to pick me up. He is a taxi driver that's why I told him to get the vaccine even he doesn't want to. We are inseparable. I still can't believe it."
When she hears that people say, covid is not real she said, "I thought so too. But I just lost my husband to Covid."
I told her that I'm sorry to hear and to know what had happened and ask her if I can hug her.
I hug her.
She cried.
I'm brokenhearted.
Happy New Year! I wish you all the best!❤️ A very sad story, Covid is very dangerous. My father had a heart attack right after the second vaccine and died suddenly at the age of 57. This happened 10 months ago and it is very difficult for me to accept. I still can't go on. I live with pain. Many people have lost loved ones, because of Covid directly or indirectly.