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God dammit, Margaret Rose, hurry up!



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In 1998, my father was dying of cancer. He had been a physician for over 60 years and had some pretty definite ideas on his end-of-life issues.
He was NOT about to die in the hospital he helped grow from a 5 room house run by Benedictine nuns to a sprawling 600 bed, state of the art facility. He would die at home, with my mother and I to care for him. He believed that, even though I had let him down by becoming a VETERINARIAN'S nurse, I could handle his medical needs per hospice orders. This included injections. I never gave them correctly, according to him. Didn't stick him fast enough, was I Mengele reincarnated? "God dammit, Margaret Rose",he would yell. Until the day I told him as soon as I gave his injection, I was leaving for Little Rock to have my name legally changed to GDMR, hurry up! He laughed for the first time in months.

by Lastoftheten in Six Words on Dads on Jun 14, 2011 | add favorite | T-shirt

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Lastoftheten says,

Should have read "mother and me". Embarrassing!

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