One Man's Ramblings
This is a picture of my daughter-in-law Cassidie, with her husband and my son, Brady.
It’s a great picture, as any Facebook photo will attest. A beautiful couple, smiling easily to the camera. But there is so much more.
Cassidie is a nurse at a Fort Worth hospital, and from what I’ve heard, in charge of nurses in the COVID-19 unit at her hospital.
Brady is a landscaper, who busts his butt every day to take care of his clients. When not at work, he is trying to make home life easy for his bride,
Their life has not been the same since the pandemic came about, but they are trying their best. He mows his lawns, and
He mows his lawns, and preps gardens for his clients, and then makes the time to keep their house respectable, and cook enticing meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (you should see his Facebook posts ... they are top of the line).
They currently have a regime when she returns home (I’m sure she’ll hate me for mentioning this) in which she drives into the garage, sheds all her clothes in hamper to be washed, and then heads to the shower.
Life in America, 2020.
In the Facebook post with this picture he wrote:
“I have to throw some love online to my beautiful wife who is literally on the front lines taking care of the infected folks almost nightly. She does not complain or show fear and that is crazy to me because I am just not that strong. She’s so much better than me in most ways and I’m truly lucky to have her around. Please check on and support your friends who are in the medical field. Loves.”
Well said, Brady. Well said.
Brady and Cassidie don’t know what the coming days and weeks hold for them. If things get really dicey, should he head to an AirBnB rental to wait things out? It is the same dilemna others in the health care field are facing. Several nurses in the hard hit areas of New York City and Michigan and Washington and California are working through the same issues.
Separating to save. Dying to return to some kind of normalcy.
I love Cass deeply, and wish her the best. I’ve said before she is the hero in my own world. I also love my first son with all my heart, and do NOT wish this virus to invade his space.
Frankly, neither do I wish it to enter the space of my other son, Dillon, who is a postman in Marion, Indiana. Lord knows he is putting himself out there every day, in a shelter-in-place world.
Be safe, all of you, including my boys and my wonderful Cass and my close family. Be safe, and smart, everyone.
This too, shall pass.
