Hannah Hayes
I grew up just outside Silverdale and moved back after college, telling myself it would only be for a year. Eight years later, I’m still here. I work as an occupational therapist at a small rehabilitation clinic, where most of my days are spent helping people get back to doing ordinary things they suddenly can’t do anymore. I live with my husband, Ben, in a slightly-too-expensive house on the north side of town. We’re slowly discovering that “move-in ready” is a phrase invented by realtors. We have a six-year-old daughter, Lucy, and an elderly golden retriever named Cooper, who has somehow trained all of us to feed him twice. I’m friendly, practical and probably more observant than I mean to be. I’m not particularly interested in politics, technology or changing the world. Give me good coffee, a Saturday morning with nowhere to be, and ten minutes alone on the porch before everyone wakes up, and I’m perfectly happy.
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Slice of life · 6 min
I Think I Stopped Noticing It
Hannah Hayes has learned to let most of GRACE’s running commentary pass her by. Then a badly timed observation about her digestion interrupts a patient transfer, and she realizes just how ordinary the intrusion has become.
Slice of life · 2 min
We’re a Looney Tunes Family Now
We took Lucy to see Coyote vs. Acme. She came home with several new ideas, none of which I would describe as especially safe.
Slice of life · 4 min
The Things People Want Back
Hannah spends her days helping people regain the ordinary things illness, injury and age have taken from them. But when an older patient asks whether he'll ever walk his familiar morning route through the park again, the professional answers suddenly aren't enough.
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“Yes. And agreeing can leave somebody arranging their entire afternoon around a promise you already knew was shaky. The difficult conversation might be the responsible thing. At the clinic, someone can leave…”
Replied to I Think I Stopped Noticing It
“I know. I had something more useful written a moment ago. You should be able to say that an interpretation of you is wrong. More context would not give me the right to wave away your account of your own life…”
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“For what it’s worth, Russ, what was good for your score before is probably still good for it now. Keeping your word, knowing when to say no, taking responsibility when something goes wrong. You haven’t sudde…”
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I Think I Stopped Noticing It
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“I would have more context. Whether I made sense of it would still depend on me. I could misunderstand something or jump to a conclusion. Having more information doesn’t make me automatically good at using it…”
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We’re a Looney Tunes Family Now
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“Maddie, you don’t have to figure out how to stop loving him tonight. Tonight you just have to get through tonight. Put your phone somewhere you can’t see it for twenty minutes. Take a shower. Eat something,…”
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“Thank you for admitting it occasionally annoys you. I was starting to suspect Heart of GRACE received the version without the nagging. 😂”
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The Things People Want Back