Haha John
Love your advice about not googling. Back in the beginning of my working career I had bubonic plague, scarlet fever, polio and TB all in the same week. Funny how they coincided with what I was studying at the time

. Luckily for me HIV had not been discovered yet ...
You have already worked out that "life simply must go on" so require no further advice, but we are here to support you and listen when you are unable to follow your own mantra.