“How’s my grandmother?”“It’s still unclear,” the paramedic replied. “She needs a full examination at the hospital. You’re her next of kin. Ride with us in the ambulance.”Liz nodded quickly, panic tightening her chest, and climbed onto the ambulance beside the stretcher.On the way to the hospital, the medical team kept giving Mrs. Smith Sr. oxygen while monitoring her heartbeat and blood pressure.Mrs. Smith Sr.’s heart stopped several times on the way to the hospital. Each time, Liz felt her own heart seize and drop, as if it were being yanked by an invisible string.When they arrived, Mrs. Smith Sr. was taken straight into surgery.Liz could hardly remember signing the consent forms. Everything around her seemed to move in slow motion, unreal and heavy, as though time itself had thickened.he kept her eyes on the red light above the operating room door, praying for it to turn off but terrified of what it would mean if it did.Not long after, Mrs. Wood arrived, breathless. W
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