Grief Lingers in Hospital Walls
We drive by a hospital. It’s not the one my mother was in, but it still brings the same sting…
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We drive by a hospital. It’s not the one my mother was in, but it still brings the same sting…
Continue ReadingIf you are the parents who just sat for hours in a cold doctor’s office to hear that your child…
Continue ReadingLife as a hospital mom is not a life for just anyone. You have no other choice, there is no…
Continue ReadingWhen my son was a mere two weeks old, he contracted RSV. My older kids had come down with it…
Continue ReadingBlue paper pants. You know, the huge ones with the weird, recycled-looking waffle texture, they swish really loudly when you…
Continue ReadingJust like that, she stopped breathing. “Your little girl went to Georgia and brought back the flu.” The nurse was…
Continue ReadingIf pictures are worth a thousand words, this picture would be the one I choose to sum up my experience…
Continue ReadingWith staggering COVID-19 case numbers, hospitals at or near capacity, and death rates climbing, one almost becomes desensitized to the…
Continue ReadingI bought my firstborn into this world on June 17, 2020, in a labor and delivery ward with closed waiting…
Continue ReadingShe lifted the young child into her arms and experienced, for the first time, a love so big her heart…
Continue ReadingThis sounds absolutely horrible. But it's real. And it's raw. And let's just be honest, we probably all have some…
Continue ReadingAs I strained through the phone to hear my husband’s words—shallow, barely audible, delivered in the staccato cadence in which…
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