I am my parents’ long-distance helper now. Like a character in a Lorrie Moore story, I have to live by bromides.
Early last month, I reread, not for the first time, Lorrie Moore’s short story “People Like That Are the Only People Here,” first published in the New Yorker almost 30 years ago. It’s about a mother handed the terrible news that her 1-year-old has cancer. A passage in it struck me like a missive from the universe. The mother, Moore wrote, now lives 'according to the bromides: Take one day at a time. Take a positive attitude.
Last week, as I sat sipping my first cup of coffee in Los Angeles, I got a phone call from New York. My father was dizzy and could not stand. I spoke with a nurse at his primary care provider; she advised an ER visit. Thus began a day of unanticipated challenges: securing an ambulance, checking in with his doctors, setting up overnight care for when he was discharged. There was no other option but to get it done.
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