… but I also felt a small amount of nervous anticipation: This is what I was trained for, to be able to help in a time of need. Last spring, when the pandemic’s chaos was … anger that came with that. I worried when a coughing, flailing patient knocked off my mask—would those few seconds of exposure be enough to give me the virus? I’d spend … a plate of dumplings my dad placed on the indoor porch where I sat, which I took only after he closed the sliding glass door separating it from the dining room. Even …