The Body in the Bog by J L Johnson

Author:J L Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: humorous mystery, small town, Louisiana, senior sleuth, southern
Publisher: J&R Fan Fiction
Published: 2018-08-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

After Gertie left, Fortune grabbed the next page. This really is a book, she thought as she counted the pages remaining. She estimated she had about two hours of reading ahead of her, so she pulled an ottoman up to her chair and stretched out on it.

Then she glanced at Gertie’s forgotten glass of iced coffee and decided she needed some iced tea. She hoped that sweet old lady would be back with her lunch soon, so she didn’t have to get up and make it herself. She had promised not to move, after all.

She started to read:

In the summer of 1971, Alma’s health had reached a breaking point. Dan had taken an unpaid leave from his job and Wilma had given him money from her ‘rainy day fund’ so he could stay home and care for his dying wife. They’d let the nurse go earlier that year because Alma was now completely bed-ridden and there was nothing anyone could do for her anymore.

She was almost completely blind and Dan wasn’t even sure if she could hear his voice when he read to her. She did respond when he touched her though, so he caressed her face all the time and tried to hold her hand or her arm whenever he was near her.

Dan was beside himself, he couldn’t just sit and watch his beloved wife waste away. He took to researching her disease and contacting any doctors or medical centers working on a cure. He spent every minute his wife slept on his pursuit of information and it finally paid off.

In mid-November, he discovered a small medical center in Argentina which seemed to have a viable course of therapy for people with her disorder. Dan immediately called and found out the therapy would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. He only knew of one person who might have that kind of money.

He knew Wilma still had some money tucked away, so he contacted the nurse to stay with Alma for a few days and he drove down to Seattle to see her face to face. Asking for that amount of money couldn’t be done by phone.

He was devastated when Wilma told him she didn’t have enough to cover the full expense, she barely had half the funds he needed.

Wilma told me she knew he was distraught when he left to go back home, but never in a million years did she expect him to act on his desperation. She thought he was headed home to Alma when he left her.

A few days later, she got a call from the nurse with the sad news that Alma had passed, and the nurse couldn’t locate Dan. Alma had willed her body to be used in research, so there wouldn’t be a funeral, but the nurse had remembered Wilma, and thought maybe Dan was with her or had at least contacted her.

The nurse wanted him to hear the news as soon as possible, so she had decided to try and call Wilma long distance.

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