The mend will be almost invisible. But there are still three centimeters left to sew when the telephone rings. Alicia was about to answer a phone call that would most likely tell her whether her son lived through the tragic crash or if he lived. Alicia shakily brings her hand towards the phone and picks it up in silence.
“Hello? Is this Ms. Winsip?” the doctor said calmly. “This is, how is Jason? Is he alive? Can I come see him?” Alicia said on the verge of tears. “He is currently in a medically induced coma but is expected to have a full recovery, we had to rush him into an emergency surgery to repair any of the tissue, and organs that were damaged. You are welcome to come see him although, he is not awake yet.” Said the doctor
As Alicia is in the car the only thing she can focus on is getting to the hospital to see her son. She didn’t care that she had been crying for hours and that she left the mess of mascara all over her face, she had to see the one person who completed her life. She was so relieved that he was expected to have a full recovery. All the things she never told him or didn’t tell him enough floated through her mind. The passenger seat belt alarm started to go off once she was halfway to the hospital. She had …show more content…
Everything that she had thought about in the car started spewing out of her mouth. Alicia stopped for a moment just to listen to his heartbeat and his breathing. Such simple things she took for granted before. This was the first time in her life where she had taken the time out of her day just to look at her son and listen to his heartbeat the way he breathed. Everything that she had been stressed about before seemed so little to her now. It was not until this moment that she found herself so grateful for everything she has. She kissed her son on the hand and held onto it until she fell asleep right next to