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“I’M SORRY. WE did everything we could,” the doctor said to me and Tom.
I stared at him in horror.
Had we heard him right?
“Wait a second. What are you saying? She’s gone?” Tom asked in disbelief.
The doctor nodded. “I’m so sorry for your loss. I know it was sudden and unexpected.”
Tom had just brought my mother into the ER and I’d met them there. Apparently, she’d been having severe head and stomach pains, worse than before. I thought they’d just give her some pills or keep her overnight for observation.
But not this.
I hadn’t even gotten to say goodbye to her...
“I don’t understand. How did she... what killed her?” I asked, barely able to get the words out.
“Metabolic Encephalopathy.” He began to describe it and all I heard was something about an
