CHAPTER 24
An Endless Ordeal
When Priscilla drove into the driveway, somehow she was not surprised to see her mom waiting on the front porch.
But she was shocked that Liza spoke no greeting and talked as though they were already in the midst of a conversation: “Do you want to see your daddy before the ambulance gets here?”
Was he already dead? Priscilla gingerly stepped onto the porch. “Tell me, Momma. Why do we need an ambulance?” Two thoughts struck Priscilla: an awareness that she had yet to accept the reality of Nelson’s condition, and that she never imagined that today might be the last time she would see her father.
“Priscilla, your daddy’s beyond comatose.” Liza seemed surprised that, as many times as she had talked to Priscilla in the last terrible weeks, her daughter was appa
