One of my favorite Broadway shows is “Hamilton”.  There are so many diverse musical compositions from classical to rap.  One of the lines from the opening song, “ My name is Alexander Hamilton. And there’s a million things I haven’t done. But just you wait, just you wait.” The reason I have affinity for this line is because as human beings we want to accomplish so much in the precious time we are given.  But life has a way of making us focus that “ we” are not the only game in town. This week for me has been filled with many teaching moments instead of what “ Mary Anne’ needs to attain.

My siblings and I are blessed with a very head strong ninety year old mother.  Whose social life is filled with luncheons and volunteer activities.  But this past Wednesday she tested positive for Covid. A very scary piece of news via text from my sisters while working on the Covid floor.  Unable to focus on anything at my work station. I immediately went into the back room of the floor to make calls.  My heart was racing and could not stop pacing back and forth.  My mind wondered to places of gloom and doom. Since our mom’s voice went from normal on Tuesday to a garbled voice on Wednesday. We had ready lost three dear friends to Covid and we are not ready to give up our mother  just yet.

Dropping everything in the office and dashing out the building with my white lab coat still on me.  Only to return with mom to the emergency room department. Talk about an experience. I  am never stationed in that department and now I saw the flip side of a patient’s journey from the ER to admissions.  As mom was called back to be checked out by the doctor.  I just remembered it would have been my parent’s fifty-ninth wedding anniversary. Dad is gone now over two years and she much rather been visiting his grave site then visiting the hospital emergency room.

More memories were popping through my brain of how our family would celebrate this day.  They always focused on keeping our traditions alive for the next generation.  Finally the doctor came out and explained her lungs were clear.

She just needs the new Covid medication. Oh, of course quarantine is another part of the prescription. Which was worse than any pill my mom had to swallow. Nevertheless, she understood the instructions given to her by the doctor without a fuss.

The rest of week was filled a son’s trepidation about college and making phone calls about this semester’s last minute details.  Trying to make working on five floors of the hospital manageable without losing my mind. But for today I am focused on my happy place of trying to accomplish a million things that need to be expressed. Just you wait!!          

Thank you to Sue W and GC for the opportunity to post to  http://weeklyprompts.com/2022/07/09/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-focus/