This week is Nurse Appreciation Week I’m told and it
could not come at a more appropriate time. The critical and heartbreaking
duties of these stalwart heroes of the coronavirus pandemic are more than evident
daily. It’s a little sad that it takes an event like this to recognize the intrepidness
they demonstrate even when not taking their lives literally into their hands
each day showing up for their critical duties.
Of course, I may be a little biased because I’ve
spent my life surrounded by nurses. My mother was a nurse, Great Aunt is an ICU
nurse, and heck, I almost married a nurse. I had a couple stays with the military
hospital system during my Army career and I always looked to the nurses who
seemed a lot more interested and caring about how I was feeling than the fleeting
interactions with doctors. You’ve always got to look for silver linings in a
storm tossed sky and coming out of this thing with a greater appreciation of nurses
should definitely be one. So Mom, thank you for your service for so many years,
first at Eliot Community Hospital and its successor and certainly to Great Aunt
for her habitual steadfast courage always but especially in these dark times.
We had a funny episode typical of people who’ve been
married a long time. My Favorite Panamanian is involved in an online charismatic
Catholic group and one of the tasks she was given was to take a personality test
(don’t ask me why – I still don’t understand). She completed the test and didn’t
think the results represented her in the least. I suggested we take it together
and let me answer some of the questions for her based on my 38 years of experience
with her. Predictably the results were a lot more in line. We also had a lot of
fun but I probably shouldn’t have laughed when the question asked dealt with punctuality.
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RECURRING
CHARACTERS
BR3
– inbound
granddaughter #3, BRS - Blog Reader the Sequel
- second granddaughter; FBR - First Blog
Reader - first granddaughter, ABFA –
Amazing Best Family Athlete = my daughter in law; Wingman – my son in law; Keene
Friends 1 & 2 – friends since high school from my home town of Keene,
NH; Soxfather - my brother in law; Great Aunt - my elder sister; Cantankerous Friend – friend since
grade school who likes to argue about everything, poses as radical leftist to
attract women; Pittsburgh College
Roommate – high school friend, also a “Minor Celebrity” in Pittsburgh; Deckzilla – our backyard deck which
grew to monstrous dimensions once my wife got involved in planning; Maine and Virginia Musqueteras – two
close friends of my wife – her US sisters, my wife is the 3rd musquetera
(musketeer); Riggins - also known as
the Grandpuppy, son's dog; PanaGals
– female relatives/friends of my wife from Panama; Panamanian/Latin Mafia – inevitable group of Latino friends my wife
accumulates wherever we have lived & their spouses; Neighborhood Mafioso - wife's close friend and Panamanian mafia
member, Favorite Panamanian - the
wife (of course); First Friday –
celebrations to mark the First Friday of the Week; Curbside Girls – close friends of my daughter acquired during her
single days in Brooklyn
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