The small Japanese woman felt the Nurses' words fall on her head like blows.”No one on my shift stays the night with a patient! I don't care what the other nurses have done. You will have to go home now!” Tired to the bone the little woman left the room. She had married her husband “until death did they part”. In the past few months he had been very close to deaths' door and she was loath to leave him alone now. It simply was not right and was not her “way” at all.
But she was not one to cause a big fuss and there were more ways than one to be near to her husband. Later when all was silent, she quietly went back and sat in the waiting room. She would be able to hear if there was a fuss in the night and go to her husbands side where she belonged. She was surprised when the lights were turned out and the heat turned off as well. The hospital floor settled into a deep quiet and all was dimly lit.
Determination was strong in her and she would wait all night there and simply hope and pray for the best, as she had throughout her life. Surely, they would be granted more time than this?
She heard the nurse leave the floor for her break and thought this would be a good time to sneak in and kiss her husband goodnight. She went quietly down the hall and entered the room, she leaned in near his face and kissed him and told him “Things will be all right!” Then she tiptoed out to take up her vigil in the waiting room again.
The next day she happened to overhear a man saying an angel, a Korean Angel, had come to him in the night and kissed him and told him it would be all right. And so it was, the man was feeling much better! Who knows if his mistaken kiss had not pulled him through a crisis? Aya wisely kept her counsel and said not a thing until eventually, it became another one of life’s little stories in Kaslo.
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