CHAPTER TWELVE
Tuesday passed Emily by in a blur. She felt as if she spent the entire day staring out the window at the unrelenting snow, trying not to cry, wishing it would just stop already. She felt so lost and lonely, and missed her family desperately.
When the nurse came to take some blood, Emily looked up at her with hopeful eyes.
“When will I be discharged?” she asked. “It’s my daughter’s last day of school tomorrow before the vacation and I really want to be there for her.”
The nurse shook her head, sympathetic to her plight, but unmoving. “I’m sorry. It just wouldn’t be safe. Even if the snow was cleared we’d want to keep you in for at least another twenty four hours.”
Emily’s heart sank. This was just awful. Hospitals weren’t the nicest places on earth to begin with, and hav
