"Do you remember our conversation last night?" The words from the nurses mouth brought back a flood of hazy memories. It's certainly not the first time it's happened. There was the time I woke up screaming in the Florida Hotel room, the time as a child I went for a midnight stroll near Lake Superior scaring my grandparents half to death, and the time I woke up trying to knife my way out of a tent with no zippers. Perhaps most memorably, the time I walked straight into a wall at a healthy gait with enough force to wake Jenny up a floor away and leave an indentation of my forehead in the wall. Last night around 3am I was deep into the most important game of "golf" (a card game) that I have ever played, when the cards didn't flip in my favor. This was deeply troubling. Troubling enough, in fact, that I hit my nurse call light and began explaining the situation. A very confused nurse promptly entered the room and began assessing the situation. I explained that I had flipped jacks when I needed to have flipped twos. She simply did not understand the urgency of the situation, which I found unbearably frustrating. Luckily, Jenny, not being a stranger to this situation, sat up and shook her head at the nurse who said "I guess I'll just get your vitals?" I promptly fell back to proper sleep. Sometimes when life changes so quickly, all you crave is normalcy. It feels good to know that some things never change -- even if that "normal" might be exceedingly abnormal. ### P.S. For those who don't get the reference of the image, make sure to listen to Mike Birbiglia on This American Life. You won't regret it.
marilyn Tucker
7/7/2015 02:12:46 am
Hang in there Sam - we are all praying for you - next time try solitaire instead of Golf
Bev Mangerson
7/7/2015 11:54:37 am
Nothing better than normalcy. We are thinking of you Sam and praying that normalcy becomes your life again very soon! Comments are closed.
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