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Keeping Long Distance Connection In A Health Crisis
Not everyone has a smartphone/device, how do we connect?
Brother, wherefore art thou?
My husband and I live in Hawaii, and my last surviving brother lives in Washington state.
I can’t find my brother. If you are like me, you have someone you love who never joined the 21st century.
He’s gone all ghosty, I think the term is. This wouldn’t concern me much, but it turns out there is a global pandemic and all its attendant chaos. In the short term, I’m sure there’s a reason that we got cut off, and he’s likely fine.
But I worry about it in the long term, because he is alone, and remote. He also stays very intensely, focused, and has been known to miss details, like having sufficient food and water on hand.
How often should we be in touch?
Every family is different. I never had a family where a sibling would call me regularly. Only my mother spoke to me daily, and that was only in the recent years prior to her death.
A little over a week ago, I called the mainland Seattle area, to reach Ken, but I only got either ongoing ringing without any trace at all, or else, I have left dozens of voice mails on his old machine.