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Show 171 I am discharged home within days. The dust bunnies lining the entryway walls welcome me as they rise with the current of my passing wheelchap! Each child takes a quiet minute alone with me, on my lap, sitting next to me, standing in front of me, unwilling to leave me. I am their breakable doll mama, one small hand tentatively touching my hah as if to affirm the identity of its owner, and another smoothing out my parka for his chair. They will be laughing and arguing and running and bumping again tomorrow but tonight is sacred. I am home at last. |