Being With You

“The soul is healed by being with children.”  - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In March this year, a recently implemented electronic health record system at the hospital where grandma Jeanne has worked for a number of years, changed the transcription volume to a point where the majority of the Transcription department was eliminated, grandma being among the elimination and losing our health insurance benefits; faced with reinventing myself as someone who was hireable at the age of 55.  I was fortunate to still have my part time job as a Physical Therapy Clinical Assistant at a local University but with no health insurance.  

'Doubt' and 'discouragement', seemed to be the underlaying words of my days along with moments of exhaustion in trying to maintain a positive outlook.  And then there was you, Lucy and Penn, my dear, sweet grandchildren that could turn my day around in a second.  For Lucy and Penn it was seeing their smiles, watching Lucy grow and seeing Penn's achievements in soccer,  baseball, boyscouts and school from pictures on facebook and instagram.  

For you, it was walking in your house Wednesday mornings to babysit, hearing you squeal with your open mouth grin,  humming songs with me and patting my back as we took walks, listening to you jabber, and snuggling on the couch for naps.  My soul was healed...

(Since, grandma Jeanne has found a new position with a company  with health benefits.)

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