That Place in His Heart: A Rags to Romance Book by Mallory Monroe

Author:Mallory Monroe [Monroe, Mallory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Austin Brook Publishing
Published: 2023-07-31T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

But two weeks and two days later, it all took a turn for the worse. Her mother’s coughing fits were no longer fake, but were coming on constantly. And she was coughing up blood again. And the doctors that came in to see about her weren’t worth the paper their degrees were printed on. They said it was normal behavior for a person with her advanced, aggressive form of emphysema and she’d have to soldier through it. Constance begged the nursing staff to contact Dr. Merrill, but they’d just throw it back in her face that why didn’t she contact him since she was his “friend.” Constance even found out where his private practice was located and drove over there. He said he’d be back in a couple of weeks, and it had been over a couple of weeks.

But his nurse supervisor made clear that he was still out of the country on a case that commanded his entire attention and he could not be bothered under any circumstances.

“But my mother is very ill and those doctors at County aren’t doing everything they can to treat her. They aren’t listening to me.”

“Under any circumstances,” the nurse supervisor said again.

Constance was pissed, but she left his fancy office in Buckhead. What else could she do? And then she hurried back to the hospital.

But by the time she got back, her mother had gone into cardiac arrest and already coded twice.

And later that night, she died.

Constance stood in her hospital room feeling as if those very walls were closing in on her. And because her mother was listed as Dr. Merrill’s patient, it all felt like they were more concerned with covering their butts in Dr. Merrill’s eyes than in the fact that they had just lost a human being that night.

“She wouldn’t cooperate with our treatment plan,” the attending physician said to Constance. “She had a multitude of issues, not just emphysema, but her smoking and her lack of cooperation certainly didn’t help. They most certainly added to her already dire situation. She wouldn’t cooperate with us,” he said again, as if it was all her mother’s fault that she died.

And in a lot of ways, Constance knew that it was.

Freda’s boyfriends were still sneaking smokes into her hospital room, and her mother was still finding imaginative places to hide them from Constance and the nursing staff. She’d smoke all during the day when Constance was at the food truck working, and then play crazy when Constance complained about the smell of smoke in the room when she got there that evening. You just couldn’t get things through to her mother’s thick skull that her mother didn’t want you to get through.

But that didn’t lessen the pain. That didn’t change the fact that the only person on God’s green earth that Constance truly had by her side was gone. Her mother was gone. Other than her father deserting her when she was only nine years old, it was her single greatest loss.

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