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The Storm

March 31st, 2020 To the Universe, So when this all began, I was traipsing about Greece not fully realizing what I was coming home to.  Just as we had arrived in Santorini, Trump had announced his travel ban and our priorities very quickly shifted to figuring out how we were going to NOT get stranded somewhere in the Mediterranean.  As soon as we heard our mainland tour was being canceled, we found our flight through London and had just enough time to spend one full day roaming the streets of Athens -- undoubtedly growing eerier with each passing hour as the Greek slowly peeled into their homes with the remaining rays of sunlight preparing for their nation, like so many others had, to shut down.  We reached JFK on the evening of March 15th and by the evening of the 22nd -- the first night I was returning to the hospital for work -- so much had changed.  I was a mix of excited (to return to work with people I love), anxious (to began to treat something I had only been reading