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While everyone else threw their caps in the air for graduation, I sat and worried that my mom wouldn't still be alive when I got back to the hospital.
While everyone else threw their caps in the air for graduation, I sat and worried that my mom wouldn't still be alive when I got back to the hospital.
I watched her vomit blood for an hour and assured her she was fine because I was too high to drive her to the hospital.
We walked into the emergency room looking like the top of a wedding cake and everyone stopped to look.
As soon as I heard my father ask 'Why is the toilet seat in bed with her?' that morning, I kicked myself for not checking on my sickly mother the night before.
How do you pray for a heart for a sick little girl when you know it's like hoping for someone else's child to die?
After three years of Alzheimer's ravaging his mind, he looked at me, his 18 year old granddaughter, and asked, "Are you mad at me mommy?"