White Lilies (A Mitchell Sisters Novel) by Christy Samantha

Author:Christy, Samantha [Christy, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Athena Books Publishing Group
Published: 2015-08-25T07:00:00+00:00

chapter seventeen

The past three weeks have gone by fast. Too fast. It’s been a whirlwind of activity. So much has happened. A lifetime worth of experiences jammed into twenty-one days. Some days were better than others, and it amazes me what we were able to pull off with the help of friends, family and even strangers.

I sit here in Erin’s newly-appointed room on the main floor of their townhouse. A study that Griffin turned into her bedroom when she stopped being able to climb stairs last week. We’ve tried to pretty it up with flowers. We’ve taped an endless stream of cards from her second-graders to the windows. We’ve put pictures of loved ones where she can see them. But you still have to call it what it is. It’s a makeshift hospital room. A place to succumb to her unrelenting disease. It’s where she’s going to die.

I’m practically living at their house now, at Erin’s request. I try to give her and Griffin plenty of alone time; however, it’s me she wants to spend most of her days with. I hope Griffin doesn’t hold it against me or somehow think I’m trying to monopolize her time. But it’s an unspoken rule that Erin gets whatever she wants, so when the medical delivery guys were setting up her new room, I set up mine in the guest room down the hall from Griffin’s.

It makes me wonder where we would live if we were to make a go of it. Could either one of us live in a house that bleeds Erin from every wall, decoration and tchotchke? I try not to think about it as I listen to Erin tell me stories of Griffin. It’s her favorite pastime these days. I think it’s her goal to tell me everything there is to know about her husband so I will know him as well as she does.

We reminisce about the past few weeks and the wonderful things we’ve done such as her Parisian Imax experience, the red-carpet premier of a blockbuster movie that Gavin got us into, the exotic elephant ride, even a skydiving experience. No, we didn’t go up in an airplane, but we did get to experience a simulated sky dive. It was more of a vertical wind tunnel with air pushing you upwards so that you have the sensation of flying. Her doctors weren’t thrilled about it, as they said there would still be air pressure issues that could cause increased swelling, but at that point, Erin had already started the final decline in her health and figured it couldn’t make things worse. Watching her experience something she never thought she’d get to do was one of the highlights of my life. I will never forget these things we’ve done together. Griffin will make sure of it. I think he must have taken a thousand pictures over the past few weeks.

Today she got a thank you note from the anonymous donation she made. Only the hospital knew who made the donation, so they were able to forward the note to her.

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