I've long thought Thanksgiving is an underappreciated holiday, sandwiched between Halloween and Christmas. I especially feel that way since the 2020 Thanksgiving I spent battling COVID-19 at a hospital intensive care unit in a small northern Colorado town where hardly anyone knew my name.

Don't get me wrong: There are worse places to die than Loveland , an economical alternative for those who love Colorado's scenery and lifestyle, but can't afford to pay Denver or Boulder housing prices.

Still, I wasn't expecting COVID-19 to jump up and grab me the way it did, transforming itself almost overnight from an abstract topic I was covering as a journalist into a bitter enemy that came close to strangling the life out of me.

The day COVID ceased to be other people's problem

All of this happ

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