Adoption

Infertile woman offers to let her husband impregnate someone else

Alone

War survivor has to get used to being alone when husband deported

Alzheimer's

Man won't abandon wife into assisted living center; he keeps her at home

Anesthesia

Man was awakened from his anesthesia overdose by sound of beloved voice

Animal

Man with severe injury remembers his wilder days; now he is jealous of his wife

Argentina

Children and parents choose between their two cultures and family is split

Arthritis

Elderly Peruvian lady with arthritis is told she "walks like a Mexican bandit"

Artificial Life

Man admires his aged mother's recovery on hospital burn unit

Auto Tech

Mexican man feels ripped off; returns to Guadalajara for auto tech training

Back

Injured man has trouble understanding Labor and Industries program

Beatings

Battered Mexican woman gets cancer; still hopes for change

Bible

Man explains how he struggles with the devil to read the Bible better

Big

Large Salvadoran lady gets plenty of attention from Latinos on the street

Book

Woman wants to write a book about U.S. experience, warning others not to come

Braces

Mother and son are stuck in braces when husband is laid off and loses insurance

Breast

Indian woman argues with doctor to get her newborn to breast and bless him

Bro

Brother explains why he's so eager to cheer his sister-in-law on during childbirth

Brother

Honduran brother-in-law moves in to care for wife while husband out of town

Bullet

Mexican man remembers how he was shot in the head by his pregnant girlfriend

Calendar Boy

Disappointed/bragging father whose son quit school to be calendar boy

Chains

Lonely professional woman feels invisible; only known as a nanny now

Charity Care

Man whose wife has cancer finds out about Charity Care program

Cholo

Grandma tells about baggy-pants boy who married her disabled granddaughter

Choose

Married Mexican man with girlfriend has to choose between women

Church

Women invite interpreter to attend church with them

Class

South American man regrets having married his lower class countrywoman

Classes

Mother takes parenting classes to learn how to control her temper

Crossing

Woman with cancer tells about crossing the border with her grandchildren

Daughter

Dad comes to terms with having daughter

instead of son

during labor

Dear Mami

Letter from dead baby to grieving mother, thanking her for his short life

Death

Pregnant woman has near-death experience as she gets infection and loses her baby

Deer

Salvadoran grandson wouldn't mind Grandma back home; reunited with her in U.S.

Diabetes

Pregnant mom with diabetes talks about how she lost her first child to disease

Doctor

Man with bad surgery outcome regrets he ever went to the doctor originally

Dog

Mother-in-law explains how men need space to be comfortable in a marriage

Donors

Grandma has many potential donors, but would prefer her husband's kidney

Down's

Father of newborn with Down's syndrome upset that doctor didn't explain better

Economist

University student is saved from being gang-raped when she is recognized

Eighteen

Young married woman wonders why everyone mad at her for being pregnant

Embroidery

Mexican woman working in U.S. factory misses warmth of family home

English

Woman has to help her Puerto Rican boyfriend propose to her in Spanish

Epilepsy

Uninsured man with uncontrolled seizures wonders if there might be a cure

Example

Christian father explains how his family is an example to others in community

Expense

Grandpa leaves hospital against medical advice when janitor tells him the cost

Eye Doctor

Mother tells how painful it is to watch rough doctor handling her son

Fallopian Tubes

Housekeeper pays cash to straighten Fallopian tubes

Family

Large family from eastern Washington in Seattle hospital waiting room

Family Bed

Mom talks about Latino families sleeping together in big, cozy group

Farm

Man fishes in Alaska to save up to buy his own farm in Mexico and get a wife

Father and Mother

New dad spoonfeeds new mother, since her family is far away

Fifteen

Man laments that his fifteen-year-old wife seems too young to become a mother

Finally

Seventy-three-year-old man explains how he is the father of a twenty-year-old son

Five Years

Birthing mother remembers interpreter who was more than family

Follow-Up

Man calls Public Health to get catheter removed when no one will treat him

Froggie

Woman remembers how neighbor arranged for her kidnapping for ransom

Frown

Unhappy hypochondriac wants to buy a happy face to gain credibility

Frustration

Mentally ill boy chokes another student to get his backpack back

God

Mexican woman can't forgive abusive dad who "found God" in old age

Good Try

Mexican soccer coach cannot understand why white parents yell "good try"

Goodbye

Dying baby's heart keeps beating until dad holds baby in his arms

Grandson

Child left behind wondered if his parents didn't want him

Gratitude

Immigrant feels sad that so many citizens are ungrateful

Greenery

Grandma talks about going into the forest to pick bouquet greenery

Grief

Grieving sister thinks she must have had heart attack, cannot believe it was just grief

Grumpy

Grumpy old man suffers at graveside service for his wife of sixty years

Hard Work

Father bewildered by son's choice to forego hard work and attend college

Healer

Healer disappointed that she cannot cure granddaughter's diabetes

Heart

Eastern Washington heart patient amused at idiopathic cardiomyopathy diagnosis

Heart Transplant

Man refuses heart transplant, prefers to keep his own heart and die

High Protein

Couple informed that the mother's high protein may mean birth defects

Home

Mother explains why they left their children in home country

Hunger

Disabled man recalls childhood starvation, grateful his children have enough food

Hurting Myself

Post-traumatic war victim tries to explain why suicide a relief

Hysterectomy

Woman finds out after cancer treatment that she is permanently infertile

Ice

Woman complains that drug and alcohol counselor is as cold as ice to her drinking husband

Identity

IRS tries to get woman to pay double taxes when someone uses her ID

Jalisco

Mexican woman compares poverty there and here

no money vs. no time

Jealousy

Pregnant woman may miscarry after jealous fight with boyfriend leads to a fall

Joking Around

Mexican father gets closer to son when they live alone together in U.S.

Joy

Older mother enjoys childbirth so much she has symptoms of extreme joy during labor

Junior

Father had a lot of dreams for his terminally ill son; it is wrenching to let him go

Keeping House

Housewife talks about the joys of keeping a nice, clean house

Knitting

Volunteer knitter for the Red Cross loves helping babies have hand-knit items

Las Malvinas

Argentinean vows to never speak English after Falkland Islands attack

Last Time

Mother frustrated when emergency room won't treat her son's cold symptoms

Laughter

Joking woman with heart defect laughs her way through heart procedure

Leukemia

Uncle is very angry that his young nephew has leukemia and no chance at this life

Lie

Man gets up courage to confront past partner who infected him with the AIDS virus

Living Will

Man due for surgery becomes anxious when asked to make a living will

Low Class

Woman laments over embarrassing lover she has found in the United States

Luck

Cancer patient feels she was lucky to be hit by a bus because it taught her patience

Maid

Maid talks about how sad and lonely it is to be a hotel maid cleaning rooms in silence

Memory

Man explains why social worker's advice to remember dead brother is inadequate

Men Doctors

Woman did not like two young men poking around her private parts

Miniskirt

Woman doesn't understand why her boyfriend wants her to dress sexy

Miracle

Grandma prays for eye doctor to be able to keep helping others regain sight

Mitten

Five family members want to share hotel room to support Grandma with cancer

Mom

Woman misses mom while her husband pressures her to grow up and get over it

Money

Wife regrets husband's prosperity, since he has become self-important

Monopoly

Mexican complains about nationalized industries in Mexico

Morphine

Grandpa on morphine flirts with hospital personnel

Mother Mary

Mother prays to Virgin to convince Jesus to hear her prayers for baby

Mother's Day

Furious Dad threatens son who only sends flowers on Mother's Day

Nun

Would-be nun with bad knees married poor charity student and lives to regret it

Nurses

Mexican woman is pleased at how the U.S. nurses treat her during childbirth

Old Age

Grandma continues to have fun and dance in spite of grumpy Grandpa

Once

Woman gets pregnant after having sex once, and chooses never to marry

One Man

Son stays with Mom who never remarried when his father died

Onion Stalk

Eastern Washington farmworker loses eyeball from onion stalk scratch

Opening

Laboring mom recalls abuse, delays labor, then focuses back in on baby

Patron Saint

Mom names ill baby after Saint, does rituals she promised to God

Picture

Son buys his mom a color television, and she tapes his picture to it for all to see

Plugged

School and hospital both push mother to get her son's ear "plugged"

Pork

Mexican Mom has paralyzed baby who is now losing insurance

Praying

Mexican minister getting fertility treatment, praying with wife for a baby

Professional

Woman misses follow-up Pap smear because of pushy male interpreter

Public Charge

Woman refuses assistance to avoid becoming public charge

Pulling Teeth

Medical query seems repetitive to man who's never been to a doctor.