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:
Feb, 2011
RIP Gene Boerner
RIP Gene Boerner
Funny how some folks fail to see the wonder.
I was one on the crazy ones too. Mom
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
Guess I was crazy and proud of it! I love the picture of you and your father in law at the game board!
I was one of the crazies too, even with twins. Not a moment of peace since! LOL RIP Gene…
Gene, rest in peace. Talya, live in peace.
I loved being pregnant too. I got so much attention. Sorry for your loss of Gene.
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thank you:)
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. 🙂