Overheard a guy talking to a doctor in the emergency ward after he just survived cardiac arrest. He is shouting and asking how? In his words "my kids have not known me oh! They are only 8, 10, and 13". Same age range as my kids. My son is 13 this month. That is what comes to your mind as a parent after a close shave. As I was falling yesterday, my kids were on my mind. I had gone to look for a belt for my son. They told him to carry aspirin with him always and change his lifestyle. They could have also been talking to me. My sleeping patterns are out of whack and I keep fighting weight gain because of it. Thankfully that isn't a problem but I don't have to wait until it is. This fall is going to mess up my fitness streak, but like Michael Jordan said, you struggle through it and never give up. I just won't do weights and swimming for a while, but there is still walking.

"Holy Mary mother of God. Pray for us sinners, now and the hour of our death, Amen! 🙏🏿" Last night after evening Mass was almost the hour of my death. I tripped over a concrete kerb at Accra Mall and almost hit my head on the concrete kerb. My left hand took the hit and my head hit the ground instead. With one functional hand, I drove immediately to the nearest hospital and have been here all night pondering how easily it would have ended because o was distracted and trying to lock my car remotely. Another lady in the hospital who came shortly after I arrived wasnt so lucky. She collapsed at home and they were administering CPR inside the ambulance in the car park as they got to the hospital. She died shortly after in the room next to me. As I was going to do my CT Scan, I saw here there all alone. Her family distraught in grief had left the hospital. The medical team had done their best and moved on. Everyone left her. That is how lonely death can be. While I thank God for my luck last night, seeing that dead lady alone in the room was sobering. Her son had come for a last look before he left. That was it. Life was over. That is going to be the fate of all of us one day. I say that Hail Mary prayer all the time and never considered how easily everything can change in an hour. I pray for solace for that family. That could have been my family too. One day it will be my time.