- The Quiet Room
In the corner of the neurology wing at the hospital – there’s a family room with a dim lamp and a fake ficus.No one ever turns the overhead lights on.It’s where people cry. Or scroll. Or pray.I’ve done all three.Once, a nurse brought me a muffin and didn’t say a word.That was the kindest thing… Read more: The Quiet Room - Hospitals Have No Place for Daughters
I didn’t have a badge.Or a title.Or a name on the visitor list. I wasn’t a spouse.I wasn’t medical.I wasn’t allowed in most of the time. But I was everywhere. I worked in a hospital alcove for six days straight.Wedged between an outdated phone charging station and a row of vending machines.Laptop balanced on my… Read more: Hospitals Have No Place for Daughters - Things I’ve Learned While Changing My Mother’s Underwear
There are things no one tells you about caregiving. Not the nurse.Not the hospital social worker.Not even the well-meaning family friend who’s “been there.” Like how it feels to kneel on the floor of your childhood hero’s hospital room,slide clean underwear over her swollen feet,and try not to meet her eyes —because looking would be… Read more: Things I’ve Learned While Changing My Mother’s Underwear
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