產科醫鴻鳥 第二季-11 勇敢生下唐氏兒的夫妻
其實這個影集討論的許多議題都非常值得深思（也非常觸動產科醫師的心），編劇真的是相當用心而且考究。我最喜歡的四宮也終於決定子承父業回到小島。
劇中分享了一首美麗的詩，很喜歡於是找到原文與中譯自己整理如下：
WELCOME TO HOLLAND
歡迎來到荷蘭
by Emily Perl Kingsley.
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this......
我經常被問到帶大一個殘疾孩子的體驗--為了幫助沒有這種特殊經歷的人們明白那是什麼感覺，我把它形容成是這樣的……
When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.
當你準備生個孩子時﹐就像是要策劃一次激動人心的旅行——去意大利。你會去買一堆旅行指南﹐然後做好精心策劃：角斗場、米開朗基羅的大衛、威尼斯泛舟……你也許還會學幾句有用的意大利話，一切都是那麼令人興奮。
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland."
在數個月的熱切等待後﹐這一天終於來了，你打好包上了路。經過幾個小時的飛行，飛機降落了，空中小姐走進來說：“歡迎你來到荷蘭。”
"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."
“荷蘭?”“怎麼會是荷蘭?我要去的是意大利!我現在應該在意大利，我一生的夢想就是去意大利！”
But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.
但是此次飛行的計劃變了。他們降落在荷蘭﹐而你必須留在那兒。
The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.
他們並沒有把你扔在一個可怕的、骯髒的、齷齪不堪的地方，這裡並沒有充滿害蟲、飢餓、和病菌。
這只不過是一個不同的地方。
So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. 於是你必須出去買一些新的旅行指南，你必須去學一種全新的語言，並且你將會結識一群以前絕對不可能遇到的新朋友。
It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.
這只是一個不同的地方。它的生活節奏比意大利慢一些﹐不像意大利那麼風光。但是當你在這兒住了一段時間並慢慢緩過氣來之後﹐你環顧四方——你開始發現荷蘭有風車，荷蘭還有鬱金香……，甚至還有Rembrandts(林布蘭，一位大畫家）。
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."
但是你認識的每一個人都忙於往來於意大利……並且所有的人都在向你誇耀他們在那裡度過了多麼美好的時光。在你的餘生，你會說“是的，我本打算去那裡的，那是我一直計劃要去的地方。”
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.
這份痛苦永遠、永遠、永遠、永遠都不會消失……因為夢想破滅的打擊是沉重的
But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.
但是，如果你用自己一生的時間去哀悼你沒能去成意大利，那麼你就永遠也沒有心靈的自由去享受那些極其特殊的、極其可愛的事物－－－屬於荷蘭的
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作者Emily Perl Kingsley是從事兒童唐式綜合症的研究專家，也是一位智障兒童的母親。美國作家，唐氏孩子的母親
#人生真的就是一段旅程
#如果不會知道目的地那麼就慎選旅伴享受著每一個腳步
#成為母親真的需要勇氣
＃對於沒有自覺成為母親但已然是的人不要嫌棄只能盡我們每個人的努力去彌補
