I'm learning new things all the time- and sometimes it ain't fun.

My brother and I are the last remaining siblings of 9 children. He is 87 years old, older than I by about a year and a half.

Last week, he, his wife and his daughter were diagnosed with breakthrough covid.

So, twice in the last week he has fallen headlong with no memory of what caused it and on Wednesday the ambulance hauled him off to hospital.

Turns out, he not only has covid but rhabdomyolysis, a condition that can have a number of causes but his likely one stems from a month or so ago when he cut up two trees. He was proud of getting it done so fast.

Well. Rhab, etc, can come from over exertion on long unused muscles, especially among the elderly, while not giving the muscles enough rest to heal. The break down pours extreme amounts of protein into the bloodstream which can be deadly.

I had never heard of this.