Question:“On being sick and alone”
On being sick and alone
Being alone when you are sick lasts longer than the sickness. But being alone with an illness is not the same as having no one. A person you have not called is not a person you do not have.
Send one message now: “I am sick. Just some soup.” The shorter the request, the easier it is to grant. If the fever is high or the breath is short, call emergency services before you call a friend, and show the body to a physician.
Patroclus, on his way to Achilles, stopped to carry the wounded Eurypylus to his tent, cut out the arrow, and pressed a bitter root on the wound. Sitting beside the sick came before the great battle.