Apathy and its Consequences

Technically this also belonged under [Flu, RSV, etc] but with only one tag, Vent felt more appropriate.

I'm high risk. Multiply chronically ill, most seriously with heart conditions that tend to tilt into heart failure with any/every infection my body contracts. Everyone in my household knows this and has seen the consequences firsthand. Hospitalizations. Loss of function to the point of ending up near-bedbound and reliant on mobility aids to get around. Medical bills in the thousands of dollars (and up!). New diagnoses compiling on the old ones from complications of infections and treatments. There's no secret or mystery here here.

It's been collectively agreed: we all mask outside the house, and we all report symptoms right away, isolate, and mask in the house from that point until symptoms subside.This has gone fine for most of us, except for one person who just does not seem to get it. He says he does! He says he will! And then, somehow, it's only after he's visibly ill and has been spreading germs for days and someone else mentions it that he'll seem to realize it's happening. And there's always a different excuse. This time it was "I thought it was just a sore throat!"

His "sore throat" turned out to be Flu A *and* B. He was fine. Literally only had a sore throat and a light cough. I'm on the verge of going to the hospital, barely able to breathe, feeling like my heart is going to explode, and already knowing-- absolutely knowing-- that I'm about to lose the desperately needed surgery I had scheduled for the end of the month, because there's no world in which I'll get cardiac clearance after this.

I'd just gotten over aspiration pneumonia a month ago. My body literally cannot take this. And no, I can't move out, and The Vector isn't going anywhere either. It's complicated, but suffice to say he's a relative of the homeowner and my fully disabled self is not in a position to argue. All I can do is hope to get through this and try to impress upon him--*again*-- that his actions have consequences, and ask him, *again* to do better.

I'm so angry, and this is the only place I could post where I knew people would understand. Thanks for listening. Hope y'all are having a better night than me ♡