Preacher’s Girl by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0000000000000
Published: 2023-01-21T09:55:08+00:00

“I don’t. I’ll get over this. I want to go right ahead on schedule and do it the way we planned.”

She stared at him. “You’re too sick.”

“I will recover,” he said. “We will proceed as planned.”

The doctors sent Dwight home to continue his recovery. Blanche told Nola, “Dwight and I are going to have to live in sin for a while, because I’m going to have to move in with him to care for him.”

The doctors brought Dwight back in for a set of barium X-rays to see if they could discover exactly what had happened to the mass they had X-rayed the last time. They expected to find it or traces of it somewhere lower down in the tract.

Instead, they found a new mass, twelve inches higher than the old one. The new mass was another dose of arsenic Dwight had ingested while attempting to recover from the abdominal surgery. The doctors simply had no explanation for what was going on. The mass they saw the first time could not have moved backward up the bowel. The anomaly this time was that Dwight seemed to be doing much better. He was clear-headed, he was walking, the abdominal distension had left him. They told Dwight they did not advise another surgery right away.

Shortly before the wedding date, Dwight was struck down by a severe, hammering attack. Blanche told people in the church there would be no wedding and they should think about hiring a substitute minister.

He stayed at home in agony for some weeks. The little house he had loved so dearly became a torture chamber, its walls folding and changing colors before his nauseated eyes, every corner and every window offering a new river of vomit and torment. Finally on December 1, 1988, Blanche took him back to Alamance County.

He was shaking, trembling, clammy white, incoherent, passing bloody rice-water stools, vomiting a milky foam, horribly swollen and distended. They hooked him up to an IV in order to pump him full of fluids. They put him on a monitor: his pulse was high and jagged but his blood pressure was low. They listened to his lungs and heard the telltale “crackles” that mean the lungs are filling with fluid. He was not producing urine. They took X-rays. His bowel was a patchwork of masses. They decided to operate immediately.

Dwight’s sister Nellie flew down from Pittsburgh and stayed in Reidsville with Nola. On the day of the surgery, Nola and Nellie drove to Deep Creek Church Road to pick up Blanche and then drove on down to the hospital in Burlington.

Blanche brought a cassette tape with her. It was a rehearsal tape Dwight had made of himself singing his own favorite hymn, “Master of the Wind.” Dwight had a handsome singing voice. He took singing seriously in the church and often worked at home on certain hymns in which he planned to lead the congregation.

Blanche slipped the cassette into the player in the dash of Nola’s car. As Dwight’s voice

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