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Monologue Mania Day# 256 by Janet S. Tiger Mother's Choice Oct. 26, 2014
Mother's Choice (from Frozen)
A monologue by Janet S. Tiger © all rights reserved
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(This is a mother, and it shows. She is no longer young, but still has fight left in her. She is tired, and yet, there is a great strength that burns in her, and she is telling the doctor what fuels that strength.)
All
lives have a journey. Every journey is
different.
Is
mine worse than a mother who finds out her baby is dead inside of her and that
she can have no more children of her own?
I don' think so. I have had my Tommy for 28 years - five have
been in this coma, but before that, he was a lively fellow, and I was very
proud of him. He was the star running
back on the football team. He is a tough
but funny young man who loves to laugh.
I
say 'is' because I know he is still in there.
I can feel it. If I for one
moment felt he was dead, I would have let them pull that plug at the very
beginning.
But
I knew then, and I know now he is my Tommy, and even if every person on this
earth told me I was wrong, I would not care.
It's
funny, at the very beginning, when he was still healing from the crash, I could
tell he didn't want to be alive. I could
hear it in my heart. And I would cry
when I got home because I didn't want him to see me with doubts. But that was just the pain talking. I knew there would come a day when he would
realize that life is better. That every
person has a reason for living.
That's
why I come every day to talk with him.
Sometimes
at the start I hired other people, but I realized that they did not believe
like I do, and I never wanted him to feel he was alone.
(This
builds) Today he may be unable to move one
muscle in his body. He may have to have
every physical need attended to by strangers.
He may have to eat with a tube and be subjected to every kind of human
indignity possible - but he is in there! And one day, he will be better, because I know that there has to be another person who believes like I do, that where there is life, there is hope! I know now that is not you, Dr. Evans, but that does not mean I will give up!
(She takes her coat and puts it on, still angry. She turns to go, stops, looks back)
And
if I have to spend every last day of my life to find him, to get a doctor who
believes like I do, then that is what my
life is to be - that is my journey.
(She exits, end of scene.)
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Janet S. Tiger 858-736-6315
Member Dramatists Guild since 1983
Playwright-in-Residence
Swedenborg Hall 2006-8
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