How I wish I could sit in the sun for hours contemplating my new normal. Because in my household it’s all old normal – with a new twist.
“I’m bored… bored… bored…” That’s all I read on social media. Oh, how I wish! How I wish I could cook up a storm and post pics. What happened regularly weeks ago before I started climbing the walls, still happens. We just deal with it differently. Take the oldest, whose shoulder dislocates regularly. And I mean regularly: 32 times, to be exact. He straps it up constantly, hardly lifts a finger because...That’s all I read on social media.
But now we have to go somewhere – that state hospital where even the doctors call him by his name. And that’s where the new normal kicks in. I have the permit and mask; he has a mask and sits in the back. Why the back, I wonder?Even the hospital is not the usual “not you again”. There’s an interrogation at the front gate; another at the front door before it’s “spray-spray” time.
And, surprise, surprise, the hospital is deserted. The usual mass of humanity is nowhere to be seen. My heart soars: we’ll be out of here in no time.I eventually gave up and went back to work from my cramped kitchen, waiting for the “I’m done” call.And believe me, I usually do – to the point where I wrote to Health Minister Zweli Mkhize asking him to intervene in what I called medical incompetence.
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