Chapter 23
Barb
Early Tuesday Afternoon, March 10th, 2015
“Hey Mel, what’s up?”
“Edith Mason was admitted to Genesis late last night. It doesn’t look good...I just thought you’d want to know.”
“Oh my. How’s...how’s Janet doing?”
“About as well as can be expected, under the circumstances. She’s with her now.”
“Yeah...okay. Thanks for letting me know.”
I hadn’t set foot in a hospital since the day Lisa died. Other than running dad to appointments with various doctors, I hadn’t had anything at all to do with the medical profession since then either. Just the thought of entering a healthcare facility to visit a patient in the last stages of life unnerved me.
‘Janet’s your friend; you have to go,’ my brain and my heart told me. In my soul, I wasn’t so sure.
It had been years since I’d
