All We Want For Christmas is a Cure
All We Want For Christmas is a Cure
The Christmas Cure
December 5, 2020
Christmas Care
Whatever became of that girl who was going to be a nurse? She was smart, she was funny, she was incandescent, and beautiful.
But most of all you knew she was going to make a great nurse because she was strong. And never scared. And she told you a story your senior year, right before Christmas, that she was going to be working all through Christmas break and probably even Christmas Day because she and her family needed the money but she didn’t say it in a bitter or a bad way. She said it because you asked.
And she said her dad had always worked every holiday.
And she said that working Christmas was not awful because people were nicer and it also gave others the chance to have the day off with their family.
Did she become a nurse? Or maybe a doctor? She might have learned to play golf and backgammon and moved to Seattle or Vermont. Any of those would be nice because it’s stressful to think of her being a nurse now. Is she safe? Is she sick?
Is she still strong and bright? If you woke up in a hospital on Christmas Day, in a room by yourself, and only one person could come in the room to see you, you would want it to be her. The nurse. The girl who was going to be a nurse and live for a thousand Christmases. --TK
Saturday, December 5, 2020