Thursday, March 31, 2016
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Write a book
Would it be ok if it was just stories? Not stories linked together with trenchant analysis of what this means for Our Times, but just: this sad thing happened, or this happy thing happened, or lots of things occur and I have no other point than to show you that lives are hard but punctuated by great joy and great sorrow and here are some of those times that otherwise would be obscured from your view.
Is that a reasonable kind of book? Or does it need to be somehow More? (I have always thought it would need to be More. More makes me tired, so I just never get very far).
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Here's a possible title: "Every Little Thing Gonna Happen".
Because once I took care of a pregnant patient who had cardiac issues and renal failure and was in general very sick. Every time I took care of her in the office, I would talk about all the things we worried about, and she would say, very gently: "Hey, Dr. C. Hey. Ain't nothing gonna happen." When she got admitted to the hospital, I would tell her what we could, and couldn't do for her and her baby if things go worse, and she would say, very gently: "Hey, Dr. C. Ain't nothing gonna happen.".
And I would go tromping over to the nursing station to sit and write my note, and I would grumble: "That's her motto. We should make a t-shirt with that on it for our whole team. We could have hats, and wristbands: 'Ain't Nothing Gonna Happen'. "
"And I wish she was right, but I think I've been doing this for a while now, and you know what? Every little thing gonna happen. It just does, and it will. Every little thing."
That, to me is pregnancy, and L&D, and high risk and women's health and parentood. Eventually, around here, every little thing is going to happen: bad, good, in between. It's a whole world, over here.
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Anyway, is that a book? I thought so last night. Now I can't tell.
It's probably not, right? Probably not.
Is that a reasonable kind of book? Or does it need to be somehow More? (I have always thought it would need to be More. More makes me tired, so I just never get very far).
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Here's a possible title: "Every Little Thing Gonna Happen".
Because once I took care of a pregnant patient who had cardiac issues and renal failure and was in general very sick. Every time I took care of her in the office, I would talk about all the things we worried about, and she would say, very gently: "Hey, Dr. C. Hey. Ain't nothing gonna happen." When she got admitted to the hospital, I would tell her what we could, and couldn't do for her and her baby if things go worse, and she would say, very gently: "Hey, Dr. C. Ain't nothing gonna happen.".
And I would go tromping over to the nursing station to sit and write my note, and I would grumble: "That's her motto. We should make a t-shirt with that on it for our whole team. We could have hats, and wristbands: 'Ain't Nothing Gonna Happen'. "
"And I wish she was right, but I think I've been doing this for a while now, and you know what? Every little thing gonna happen. It just does, and it will. Every little thing."
That, to me is pregnancy, and L&D, and high risk and women's health and parentood. Eventually, around here, every little thing is going to happen: bad, good, in between. It's a whole world, over here.
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Anyway, is that a book? I thought so last night. Now I can't tell.
It's probably not, right? Probably not.
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
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