The Sung Heroes
Let me be 100% clear about something right from the start. You know by now that I’m all about how hard it is to be a caregiver and how we’re the unsung heroes. AND YET, I need to make sure that you know that I know that there’s a reason the patients are the Sung Heroes, which yes, is a term I just made up.
Take Care of Yourself
“Don’t forget to take care of yourself,” they say,
looking pityingly into my dark circle-ringed eyes.
I see their Concern, Sincerity, Worry. But I wonder,
Do they think it was a reminder I needed?
And Yet
Years ago, I was convinced by my dear friend Samantha to sign up for an improv class she was teaching. At the scene work and character study I was awkward and inept, coming into my own only once as I played a drunk Southern belle. Nevertheless, from that eight-week course I took a phrase that has informed my work and life ever since.
Hospital Scars: His & Hers
Discharged
after 18 days,
(13 longer than projected,)
most of which were
NOT
due to the
Seriousness
