Something Good by Vanessa Miller

Author:Vanessa Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2022-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

What was she thinking, not answering a call from the nursing home? Alexis turned her car around and drove straight to the hospital. When they left the hospital two weeks ago with Ethan, Alexis never imagined that she would be right back in the same emergency room asking for her mother’s room.

The doors opened and she was told Vivian Cooper was in bed twenty-three. When Alexis got there, the room was empty, not even the bed was there. Where was her mother? Vivian had had a seizure. Why wasn’t she in her room? Her eyes darted from one side of the room to the next. Was she too late?

Frantically, she scurried to the nurse station just outside the room. “Excuse me. Excuse me. I’m confused.” Scratching her head, she said, “I was told my mother was in room twenty-three.”

“What’s her name?” the nurse asked.

Alexis told her.

The nurse typed something into her computer, then looked back up, “Yes, Ms. Cooper is in that room. She’s getting an MRI. She should be back in a few minutes.”

Sighing with relief, Alexis ran her fingers through her hair as her stomach growled. She had forgotten to eat. “I need food.”

She went to the cafeteria and purchased a sandwich, chips, and a bottle of water. She kept hearing Michael tell her that her mother had a seizure. What could have happened to cause a seizure? It wasn’t as if Alexis thought her mother was in the best of health, but she never would have imagined something like this.

Back in the room, Alexis sat down in the reclining chair that was situated next to the wall. She took her phone out of her purse and scrolled Facebook to give her hands something to do while waiting on her mother. But Facebook proved to not be a welcome distraction as one of her Facebook friends posted a picture of her mother with the caption, “Rest in heaven.”

She put her phone back in her purse and stared at all the gadgets on the wall. Her son had been hooked up to a bunch of tubes the last time she had been here. She wondered what her mother would look like when she came back to this room.

Within a minute the door opened, and her mother’s bed was wheeled into the room. Alexis stood. She waited so they could reposition the bed and the monitoring equipment next to her bed.

“The doctor will be in shortly,” the woman told her before leaving the room.

Her mother looked groggy, like they had pumped her full of drugs. Alexis wondered if they were aware of her mother’s previous history with drug abuse. They had her hooked to an IV that led to two different bags of fluid. Hopefully, the workers at the nursing home informed them. She would have to speak with someone about that.

Alexis noticed those protruding veins again, but now she studied her mother’s face and saw the wrinkles in her forehead, the crow’s feet at the corner of her eyes, and the puffiness under her eyes.

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