Gee Gee

The group of people waiting anxiously in the hospital room that day years ago could not see the angel among them, but her presence was certain, almost palpable. She was mother to three of those in the group, wife to one, mother-in-law to a nervous husband holding the hand of her daughter, and was soon to be grandmother to a baby girl about to depart her home in the womb for nine months and go to an earthly home filled with loving care and tenderness. Everyone in the room was excited, but none more so than the invisible one whose name was Gail Reed, known to all by her nickname: Gee Gee. Finally, the long-awaited moment arrived. A nurse entered the room and announced, “All right, dear, the doctor is ready for you.” She helped Annabelle, the youngest of Gee Gee’s three daughters, onto a gurney. Her sisters, husband, father-in-law, mother-in-law, and father kissed her, wished her Godspeed, and wiped away tears as the beautiful young woman was wheeled away to undergo a Caesarian Section.