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I was one of the crazies.

February 23, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner 9 Comments

Saline water gurgles over my right shoulder sounding like an aquarium. In the next room a television drones on as someone wins the Showcase Showdown. The mere sound of a game show makes me nauseous, transports me back forty years to sick days home from school.

The smell of hospital food is unmistakable, sickness and sorrow stirred into chicken broth. In the corridor a nurse bellows, “I hated being pregnant—worst experience ever!”

Some women love being pregnant.” Another responds, shocked at her confession.

“Only crazy women!” She continues down the hallway, skipping Gene’s room. The lunch cart needs a squirt of W-D 40.

From my fake leather chair I murmur, “I was one of the crazies.”

Gene doesn’t reply.


talya

Musical Pairing:
Ain’t No Sunshine, Eva Cassidy

Feb, 2011
RIP Gene Boerner

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  1. Anonymous says

    February 23, 2013 at 4:44 am

    Funny how some folks fail to see the wonder.

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  2. Anonymous says

    February 23, 2013 at 5:28 am

    I was one on the crazy ones too. Mom

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  3. Anonymous says

    February 23, 2013 at 6:38 am

    Thank God, I was (still am) crazy as a Betsy Bug about my baby – from conception to 26 1/2 years later!! Sounds like that nurse should be a mortician – reveling in death rather than rejoicing in life! What a shame… (sigh). Minta

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  4. Colene says

    February 23, 2013 at 8:38 am

    Guess I was crazy and proud of it! I love the picture of you and your father in law at the game board!

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  5. Staci Sandquist says

    February 23, 2013 at 9:47 am

    I was one of the crazies too, even with twins. Not a moment of peace since! LOL RIP Gene…

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  6. Patricia A. Laster says

    February 24, 2013 at 7:41 am

    Gene, rest in peace. Talya, live in peace.

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  7. Joyce Lansky says

    February 24, 2013 at 6:45 pm

    I loved being pregnant too. I got so much attention. Sorry for your loss of Gene.

    http://joycelansky.blogspot.com

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    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      February 25, 2013 at 6:26 am

      thank you:)

      Reply
  8. Gary Henderson says

    February 25, 2013 at 2:20 pm

    One of my good friends said all the way through her pregnancy that she hated being pregnant and that the only good thing was the prize at the end. She’s a great mom with a beautiful daughter. But that whole ‘being pregnant’ thing . . . not her cup of tea. 🙂

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Hi! I'm Talya. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Author of

THE ACCIDENTAL SALVATION OF GRACIE LEE (2016)

GENE, EVERYWHERE: a life-changing visit from my father-in-law (2020)

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