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TODAY!

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On this day, twenty-two years ago, I watched a man die right in front of me.  It was the very first time I had witnessed someone die.  And I was completely shocked at what a precious and beautiful experience it was. Around a year prior to that, I ran an errand for my boyfriend: collecting his father’s reports from an office at the end of one of the many long corridors of that huge hospital. The doctors who handed me the reports were only slightly older than I was and they fumbled as they asked me how I was related to the patient, looking at each other to decide whether they should tell me what the reports said. I convinced them I was a family member and they should tell me. But by then I had already read what was written all over their faces. My boyfriend’s father was dying. I remember walking back down that long corridor, trying to figure out how I was going to break the news to my beloved. I was searching my brain for any prior education as to how one must be told that one’s love