Cit yV iewN C.co m | 13
Ear, Nose, Throat, Head & Neck
The best way to take cancer head on is to get screened.
April is Head & Neck Cancer Awareness Month.
Pinehurst | Sanford | Troy | Rockingham | Raeford
910 • 235 • 4034 www.pinehurstsurgical.com
much positivity if you look for it.
Several things have sustained me. First,
the beautiful weather. Spring knew
we needed her something fierce. I've
never seen as many people enjoying the
outdoors as I have this week.
A single drive through my
neighborhood, a drive that I've made
thousands of times rushing here, there
and everywhere, brought me to tears.
In a 1-mile stretch toward home, I
saw a strolling elderly couple holding
hands. A little boy comically trying
to balance his bicycle and several
adult-sized gardening tools. A dad
playing a front yard game of soccer,
complete with orange cone goals, with
his daughters. I honestly cannot tell
you the last time I saw a grownup fully
and undistractedly participating in an
outdoor game with his children.
My own two kiddos splashed in
the creek at Rowan Park, took to the
Cape Fear River Trail to complete a
nature scavenger hunt (posted on our
preschool Facebook page by a sweet,
sympathetic teacher), and logged lots
of Sunflower Academy P.E. hours
jumping on the trampoline, chasing
bubbles, decorating our driveway with
chalk doodles and walking our old
yellow lab.
en there's been the hilarious
group text threads with my similarly
housebound friends that have made
me laugh out loud on days when I
really felt like crying. We've checked
in on each other several times a
day and recounted our parenting
misadventures. An emoji trophy has
been passed back and forth to the mom
with the best isolation story du jour.
e grand-prize winner has got to be
one particular fellow mom, a full-time
executive suddenly forced to work
from home while also parenting her
three young children. Around 5:00 one
evening, we girls got a text from her
