My Husband Died of West Nile Virus

…(And Now I See Little Deaths Everywhere)

Photo by Mike Labrum on Unsplash

My husband’s birthday is this month and even though he is no longer with us, my daughter and I will still celebrate. Joel had MS but a few months after he turned 50, he died from complications of Multiple Sclerosis and West Nile Virus. Dying from a mosquito bite seems so quaint in the age of coronavirus.