On Almost Dying All the Time

I almost died on July 15th, 2022. The Ides of July? Is that a thing? I don’t care. It wasn’t the first time. It almost certainly won’t be the last. I’m not a person who works in an especially dangerous environment. I work from home for a software company. In the late summer of 2015, I was diagnosed with adult-onset asthma. I never had asthma as a child, though my older sister did. None of us four kids were particularly athletic as…