Stitches and Easter Prayers in the Emergency Room
You know the feeling. You get comfortable in life until something pulls you out of your routine. You’re forced to stop, watch, and listen. This happened last Good Friday when my 22 year-old son Paul ended up in the emergency room.
At the reception desk, a heavy, middle-aged woman with a long-gray braid told the nurses in a thick accent she was having a panic attack. She didn’t know what to do. She was asked to sit down. Someone would see her shortly. I couldn’t stop watching the woman, her face wreathed in worry. She stared straight ahead, caught in her own drama as if watching a scary movie. She took short breaths in and out. I wondered why she was alone.
Paul’s name was called. Things seemed to be under control and not too serious so I told Randy to get to his gig. We were brought back to the examining room. I swallowed my terror of hospitals and medical procedures. Handsome nurse Richie arrived to give Paul a tetanus shot. He looked like the singer Ricky Martin and as he prepared the injection, told me about his 19 month-old son. “He’s amazing, so fast,” he said, shaking his head. In the wistful way he talked about his child, I could tell he wished he were home.
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