The Light We Lost

It was a “minimally invasive” back surgery.  She was supposed to recover at my house for 4-6 weeks -- time I was looking forward to. The last few years had been so busy, and I hadn’t made as much time for her as I should have. But because she wasn’t quite ready to navigate the few stairs at my house, the hospital released her to a skilled nursing facility to begin her physical therapy.  A week at most, we thought. She was such a good patient and hard worker.  We knew it would only be a week and then she would be at my house, and we would be watching movies, and talking about books, and about my kids, and anything else that we thought of.  But she left us the next morning.  And we still don’t know what happened.  

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