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IthinkThereforeIAM

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26. I remember exactly where I was...

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 09:55 AM

Dec 8

... and what I was doing when it was announced. I was in Denver seeing Denver Ear Institute about a cochlear implant, staying at my aunt's place, when mom and aunt Char(RIP) told me.

On edit: I had lost my hearing due to spinal meningitis complications 4 years earlier, while my family vacationed in Denver. And it was St Joseph's Hospital downtown Denver, where a neurosurgeon had just came out of surgery, that saved my life! 104 fever and stiff as a board... 20 minutes longer and I would have been toast!

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I can truly understand that. Chasstev365 Dec 8 #3

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So sorry. Terrible scourge of an illness! electric_blue68 Dec 8 #40

That must have been a cruel blow DFW Dec 9 #46

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