A Leap of Faith
I’d been an activist and in protests since college. But this felt “low risk” compared to standing up as a medical student to the hierarchy of medical education.
I Am a White Woman
I am a White woman with privilege. My parents preached that all people are created equal, but we lived in White communities. Talk is easy. When I was in high school, my father was transferred and we moved. With many more Black persons in Virginia, Maryland, and D.C., my mother’s true views emerged. It was 1962, and as we drove places, her talk was a stream of stereotyping racism.
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Do I Stay or Do I Go?
Looking out at a metal awning, I sit with my view from this hotel room in North Carolina. Do I stay or do I go?
Three years ago, my older son, who was immune naïve and compromised, got a probable viral pneumonia which progressed much like we know coronavirus does into a heightened inflammatory response. He was intubated on day five and died on day sixteen. I know what this looks like.
My younger son has been deployed to Afghanistan for nine months. He was due back to North Carolina yesterday.
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