Who Do I Talk To? (2010)
Who Do I Talk To?
“chapter 35 Martha Shepherd lay small and slight under the taut hospital sheet, her eyes closed, an oxygen mask still covering her nose and mouth, her gray hair splayed out on the pillow as her breath rose and fell. I sat in a chair beside the hospital bed, holding her left hand. My fingers played with her wedding ring, a simple gold band she’d been wearing for over fifty years. Over fifty years . . . Was my marriage going to end after only fifteen?
I felt so sad. As if I was treading water in a... huge pool of loss.
And yet . . . I was treading water. I hadn’t gone under. “The Lord is my Shepherd” . . . Hold on, strong woman of God, hold on.
Aunt Mercy had faxed my parents’ living will to the hospital. No heroic measures that would simply prolong dying, it said. I felt a strange relief. My mother’s decision, not mine. They moved my mother into a private room. No machines.
And now we wait . . .
Mabel had taken a distraught Lucy back to Manna House to take care of Dandy, leaving Carolyn and Precious to sit with me and my comatose mother.MoreLess
I felt so sad. As if I was treading water in a... huge pool of loss.
And yet . . . I was treading water. I hadn’t gone under. “The Lord is my Shepherd” . . . Hold on, strong woman of God, hold on.
Aunt Mercy had faxed my parents’ living will to the hospital. No heroic measures that would simply prolong dying, it said. I felt a strange relief. My mother’s decision, not mine. They moved my mother into a private room. No machines.
And now we wait . . .
Mabel had taken a distraught Lucy back to Manna House to take care of Dandy, leaving Carolyn and Precious to sit with me and my comatose mother.MoreLess
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