Ruptured by Joanne Rossmassler Fritz

Ruptured by Joanne Rossmassler Fritz

Author:Joanne Rossmassler Fritz [Fritz, Joanne Rossmassler]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2023-11-14T00:00:00+00:00


CLOSER TO YOUR MOM

I send a text

to Leala and Trish,

letting them know

we’re now in Portland.

And walking distance

to the hospital.

Closer to your mom!

Yay!

Leala texts back.

Trish’s text says,

Hope she gets better.

Thanks, I reply to both.

A NEW NEIGHBOR

After lunch,

the three of us

walk to the hospital,

me carrying the gift.

Mom is still in the neuro ICU,

of course,

but I’m startled to see

a young man

with a broken leg in traction

in the next room.

I wonder where DeShawn’s

mother is.

Complications …

setbacks …

My heart races.

I overhear Charles

talking to an older couple

and realize

the young man

was in a motorcycle accident

and has head trauma.

Ack!

Hope he comes out of it okay.

“Charles?”

I ask when he comes to Mom’s room.

“What happened to

DeShawn’s mother?”

I stop breathing, preparing myself

for the worst.

“Oh, she was moved

to intermediate care.

On the sixth floor.”

Relief floods through me.

Thank God.

She didn’t die.

This makes me happy

for her sake,

even if it means not seeing DeShawn

as much.

Thursday night

is almost a week away.



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