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By Fay K. Miller
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soon became a symptom
of a startling venous deficiency.
Inadequate color, only a hint
of the scenario to follow!
My pallid complexion, was
Now classified a lab “ red flag”
with deficient numbers!
An empowered nurse, informed,
I was going to the hospital
in an ambulance!! Final answer.
True to her word, it arrived,
loaded me on a gurney,
soon a resident in the E.R!
‘Twas a sleepless night
tests, transfusions, hours of
poking, prodding, and checking vitals!
Escape was plotted for 24 hours,
I had purpose to be in Georgia!
Just as a good Grandma should be,
I got gussied up, acting and looking my best,
fully proud of my 1st grandson’s Graduation.
Of course fair skin paler than usual,
I was now a small step above my
recent status of one very white woman!
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