My Heart Goes Out to the Sad, Lonely Waiting Rooms Around the World

Some changes this year are so sad and heartbreaking to me. Things that I experienced just last November that seemed like such a simple thing and was so common has been snatched away in the blink of an eye just a year later. While working today I walked by the waiting room of the Labor and Delivery floor where on November 5th of 2019 where family and friends of my 18 year old daughter sat, waiting to see the new little nugget brought into the world. There were grandparents and great grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins from all sides of the nuggets new family so excited to witness this new life. 

I am so thankful we were able to experience something so great before it was snatched away by this awful pandemic. So many people are having to experience things that we used to have a whole support system rallying with us, by our sides, in our rooms, now we do them mostly alone. People leaving this world with no one, mothers bringing new life in to the world with out the support systems they so desperately need, cancer patients dealing with treatments and life altering decisions on their own, so many situations that have been affected by this insanity. 

No matter your opinion on this issue, the fact is still there are so many sad and lonely waiting rooms screaming for the return of the support systems and love from families/friends. 

I'm praying that 2021 brings some type of return to normal that allows us to gather again.