"I felt the tug on my sleeve and looked down to find him standing motionless. His mouth was moving but I couldn’t make out his words. His quiet body in the noisy room caught me off guard. I bent down to find his voice."
"Tears-pouring-down-my-face, couldn't-talk-couldn't-breathe kind of laughing. Screaming laughing. So hard that I was sobbing because I couldn't get it together."
"I don’t know who this lady is... she waved at him and he made his way up to her. I thought their interaction would be the same as last time but I was wrong. "
“He’s a superhero. You know that," I whispered. She looked at me with tears in her big brown eyes, and do you know what she said to me?... Oof my heart just broke.
"She talked to him like none of us were in the room and they were on their anniversary date dinner (next month). She told him all the things she was going to miss without him there and thanked him for being the best husband and father. Although he couldn’t respond, you could see in his eyes he knew her voice."
Whether it's their lack of technological knowledge, or just their virtual-texting personality, if your mom has a smartphone, you've probably received a good knee slapper or two.
You see your mail carrier, they're the front-line. However, the mass amount of employees behind the scenes outnumber the carriers. Clerks, mailhandlers, machine operators, truck drivers, custodians, maintenance personnel and the list goes on and it takes every one of us to pull it off. We operate 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year.
"I was the last person he saw in the ER. He told me he trusted us to get him to the other side. He will be my silent warrior and guide until the day I hang up my stethoscope."
