Regardless, I’m trying to get us all back into an established pattern of meals and nap times so I’ve been wanting to re-establish my habit of logging all their details. That’s partially because our routines were interrupted with a recent move and partially because they really want to play with my phone every time they see it. That’s worked well so far, but now that my kids are older, I’ve had a harder time immediately logging their events.
Since I brought my twins home from the hospital, I’ve used an app to note every bottle, diaper change, nap, medication, bath time and more. The amount of stuff that mom’s need to keep track of is, in a word, immense. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.Never in my life did I think it would be important for me to know when someone else had pooped, but then I became a mom and here we are. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. Melvin is retiring this week from Elmhurst Hospital in Queens - one more news event to remember this week.Ĭopyright © 2023 NPR.
INSKEEP: Melvin and Marvin Morgan for Stor圜orps in New York. MELVIN MORGAN: And I just hope I go out the right way. MELVIN MORGAN: No one can tell you where you came from, no one can tell you why you're here and no one sure can't tell you where you're going. And she said, well, am I going to heaven? I said, I don't know. MARVIN MORGAN: (Laughter) You know, this young lady asked me the other day - she asked me about death. And I'm not afraid of death, but to be honest with you, if something happened to my twin brother, even though I do this job, I don't know if I'd be able to take it. MELVIN MORGAN: The same that you do with me. I would talk to you so I can get over it. MARVIN MORGAN: Some of these cases, you know, you take it home and it just sits with you. And I would go and play music for them and talk to them. And they all of them went to the freezer. And I had friends that died - coworkers, the people that work in the hospital. It was hard, especially with the ones that, you know, you knew. You know, bodies coming from the elevator all the way down the corridor through the hallway to the morgue, lined up. MELVIN MORGAN: We was at the epicenter of this pandemic.
MARVIN MORGAN: What was the hardest thing you ever seen? But I knew I was moving into the right field because I knew that I had an important job to do. MELVIN MORGAN: It was a heck of a experience to see my comrades cutting up a body with ease and not being frightened, which I was in the beginning. So your first day of the mortuary, what'd you do? And I said that one day that we're going to see that people be buried right. They were buried in unmarked graves - no headstone, no nothing. Down south, the African American's cemeteries separate from the Caucasian cemeteries. MELVIN MORGAN: Right, she over there somewhere. MARVIN MORGAN: He pointed out, and said, she's over there somewhere. MELVIN MORGAN: We were walking past the cemetery, and our cousin. MARVIN MORGAN: So remember, we were down south and we went to go look for great-grandmom's grave?
At Stor圜orps, they talked about the calling they share, practicing that calling amid the deaths of the pandemic years and a childhood discovery that led them to their work. INSKEEP: (Laughter) Melvin and Marvin did end up becoming morticians themselves - not in a funeral home, but in morgues in New York City. On his way to the hospital, he saw Marvin and Melvin Funeral Home. MARVIN MORGAN: Mama called Daddy and told him to find two names because he had two twin sons. And today we hear from Melvin and Marvin Morgan. It's Friday, which is when we hear from Stor圜orps.
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