Imagine That (2014)
“Today could not be counted a good day. As Nate helped his mother shuffle from the bathroom back to bed, a sickening lurch in his heart told him the pendulum had begun to swing the other way. Soon bad days would be the norm. He’d known the tide was inevitable, but knowing and watching the downturn were two different things.
His mother sank back against pillows with a short sigh, as if even the brief exhalation of air was too much for her now. He picked up the glass of ice chips on the nightstand and slipped a couple pieces into her mouth.
“I think I’m all right now,” she said, repeating the phrase she’d uttered after every trip.
“I still have the antinausea medicine the doctor gave you.”
She shook her head. “Too soon to take it again.”
Nate grunted. “I doubt anything you take could be worse than cancer.”
His mother’s eyes flew open and a dry chuckle escaped.
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