Chapter 21
BRODY’S FATHER DROVE them to the IHOP, and once they were seated, Brody made himself order a sandwich. The others were talking around him, but he sat there feeling numb, not knowing what to say or do.
“You’re so quiet, Brody,” his mother said. “Are you alright?”
“No, I’m not all right, Mom,” he said. “You know how I feel about Pop, and I’m sort of feeling numb at the moment. As a relative, I wasn’t allowed to assist in his treatment, so I held his hand in the ambulance—I’ve never felt so completely helpless in my life. You’d think, that with all of my medical training, I could have done something—”
Brian was sitting next to Brody in the booth, so he put his arm around Brody. “He was looked after, wasn’t he?”
“Oh, yeah. Ron—that’s my boss—did all that he could do. It just di
