Addie's Rose, Donna Green [e books free to read TXT] 📗

no more hope. He put her on the telephone so I could talk to her. She explained to me that when patients are taken off their life support system that they will sometimes live up to ten days. The up side to this is they are allowed to have anything they want in their rooms to make it more home-like, and sometimes they are allowed to go home. Well, that eased my mind. She has dialysis on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

Friday, February 22nd – She had dialysis for the last time.

Monday, February 25th – The hospice nurse called me at school at 10:00 a.m. and told me to come.

Weather conditions forced me to stop in Missouri at 1:00 a.m. I called my dad.
My sister, my best friend in the whole world died at 9:30 p.m. February 25, 2002, the day before my daddy’s birthday.

Monday, March 4, the first day of Spring break, we said good-bye.

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Publication Date: 12-21-2009

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Dedication:
For my dad, I love you.