I Love Being the ER Dad
My latest column at Medpage Today
I’ll post the full text eventually but as it’s new, I’m just doing an excerpt with the link.
Not long ago our charge nurse, Shawn, wrote my name on our emergency department dry erase board. Next to it she jokingly wrote, "Old Man." As a 59-year-old, grey-bearded father of four adult children and husband of one wife for 33 years, I thought that was actually pretty appropriate. I'm embracing my old-man persona, wise curmudgeon and all. But then Shawn's sister, Erin, our unit secretary, erased it and wrote "ER Dad." The truth is, I love being the emergency department dad, even the old man, if it means I get to be a source of stability and safety for all of my "ER kids."
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/rural/107517
Being a stable father figure matters more than most of us dads every realize. In whatever capacity we father.
Edwin