In December of 2019 the entire world was turned on its axis with the introduction of COVID-19. What once was something of a myth turned into one of the biggest global pandemics that anyone in this generation has ever lived through. Joy, an emergency room doctor shares her experience during the pandemic as a mother and a wife. It is in her story that we realize that everyone during the pandemic struggled but that our medical care professionals saw it from a different reality, a stronger lens and experienced it in a more difficult way. A new concept of being a frontline worker, a warrior, and someone that no one on the outside wanted to be. What happens when her personal life, the things she holds closest to her make their way into the ER? Will she be able to continue to be Joy the doctor when the other parts of her are in complete chaos? It is through her eyes that we get a better understanding of how our medical professionals have the strength to walk in their respective places of work every day and put their lives in danger to save strangers.
Distress (Prose)
My mother told me at a very young age that I was the most impatient child she had ever experienced. I never wanted to wait for anything. I didn't want to wait for the bus, I didn't want to wait to graduate from high school, hell I would even lie to my mom and tell her my siblings didn’t want to go somewhere so we wouldn’t have to wait for them. I was completely impatient. But one day after school my brothers and sisters and I were playing this board game that was all about helping this guy with his operation. Have any of you ever played it? It's that game where there's a man and I think I had to get bones out of his body with these tiny and I mean tiny little tweezers.