When Virginia Fisher Yaffe gets a call late at night with bad news, she learns how hard it is to be separated from family who are in trouble
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines atThere was an incessant ringing in my bedroom. It didn’t sound like my phone but I checked that anyway, in addition to the smoke alarm and the fridge, as it makes a wonky noise sometimes.
I liked this new form of communication – Facebooking, facetiming, whatever it was called. The kid looked good. I did wonder why he was calling so late at night but it was vacation after all.Perhaps he had gone deep-sea fishing and had caught a marlin. My daughter is known throughout the continent for never answering her phone. Indeed, she has been crystal clear about the fact that, in an emergency, call her husband, who answers in a distinctly timely fashion. But he is a son-in-law – and a terrific one at that – but I don’t want to bother him on vacation, especially as it now approached midnight. Mind you, I wanted to know what happened to Eve.I call him.
As we were speaking, she was having cranial surgery to remove a bone from her own head that had poked into her brain. He promised to call me when the surgery was over.What is the mechanism that takes over and causes a thousand thoughts to come at once? I wish it were I who had been hit. I guess that is a classic grandmotherly reaction; I am already old and have lived some while she is just beginning.
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