My only anxiety issue right now is fear of getting COVID. I feel that, while this surge is still raging, I have to stay home and avoid being around other people. I'm lonely being home so much. I live alone. Now the powers that be say COVID is not going anywhere. It's now "endemic." We must coexist with it. We must live with it.

I've watched the man I love die of acute respiratory failure. He basically suffocated to death, and he was conscious as this happened. It was lung cancer. I don'g want to die like that. I worry every day.