"Tears-pouring-down-my-face, couldn't-talk-couldn't-breathe kind of laughing. Screaming laughing. So hard that I was sobbing because I couldn't get it together."
"I don’t know who this lady is... she waved at him and he made his way up to her. I thought their interaction would be the same as last time but I was wrong. "
"I had managed to keep my composure in the grocery store, and even when I was putting away my cart back to get my quarter back. But as I drove home, the tears came. I began the ugly cry."
As mom nervously waited for Slade to wake up from his anesthesia in the patient waiting room, an unexpected blessing arose in the form of nurse Annie Hager.
"To the nurse who has been admitted to the ICU. To the nurse who can no longer breathe on their own. To the nurse who wonders if this is how they treat 'heroes.'"
"Some pain etches itself into your retinas. It’s beating us, pretty much every time. If you end up on a ventilator, you are not coming off until your heart stops."
