Short Story

"My mother and I are estranged, have been for years. My father died when I was young," Mary Alice said.

“Amelia, what happened to your mother is not your father’s fault. Your mother was killed by a man. He shot her in the back of her head. And don’t ever say that you wish he was dead.

comes near his daughter. After living like this for so many years, Emily is left with

The narrator seems unable to establish direct contact with Emily, either in the recovery center or their home life. The narrator notes how Emily grew slowly more distant and emotionally unresponsive. Emily returned home frail, distant, and rigid, with little appetite. Each time Emily returned, she was forced to reintegrate into the changing fabric of the household. Clearly, Emily and the narrator have been absent from each other’s lives during significant portions of Emily’s development. After so much absence, the narrator intensifies her attempts to show Emily affection, but these attempts are rebuffed, coming too late to prevent Emily’s withdrawal from her family and the world. Although Emily is now at home with the narrator, the sense of absence continues even in the present moment of the story. Emily, the narrator’s central

This left Lindo horrified, and Waverly never got the chance to tell her that she and Rich were going to get married. Waverly woke up the next morning, tense. She rushed to her parents’ home determined to tell her mother of the engagement. She woke Lindo up as she began to cry. Lindo worried about what had happened, to which Waverly responded that nothing had happened and that she and Rich were getting married. Her mother told her that she had already known. Waverly had assumed that Lindo despised Rich, but Lindo was surprised that her daughter believed so. When Waverly tried to explain why she thought so, her mother said, her face containing a look of sorrow, “Ai-ya, why do you think these bad things about me? So you think your mother is this bad! You think I have a secret meaning. But it is you who has this meaning, Ai-ya! She

She saw Hope on the news and decided to come visit. When she was at the diner, Hope was getting upset about her mother's presence and started to

“But that still doesn’t answer my question as to how you knew that wasn’t my mother?” said Jack. “She was there, at my door, in plain sight!”

Discuss the nursing interventions to be utilized with a family member who is in crisis in the care setting and interfering with the healthcare team’s performance.

One night Chelsea was at home in bed and she had woken up from a dream. Her dream was about her mother being dead and she was hanging on a cross like jesus was. So when she woke she was crying and went looking for her mother. She was walking around the house and she wasn’t in there. So she went outside still crying screaming her mother's name “mother” “mother”.

I went into the room; there she was sleeping like a baby. As I sat next to her, I could see how pale she looked. Austin was right; she looks depressed, something is not right. I decided to wake her up.

“Before all of the questions, I need to know what happened to my parents.” The nurse looked uncomfortable.

At today’s visit she is accompanied by her daughter-in law who is visiting the facility. She is awake, alert and oriented. The daughter in law reports that the patient

“My mother is dead; in case you’ve forgotten.” Sarah’s only an imposter. She orders me around. She tries to set rules. My mother died a long time ago.

“I don’t know,” her mother replied, “We couldn’t find you in the forest and we looked everywhere and called out your name but you didn’t answer and now you’re here.”

Monica sees my mom and whispers in my ear, “I see a mother walking towards you and crying proud as a peacock”. I turn around; she is crying and telling me that she walked in right after Butera announced my name. From watching her cry I began to