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“MOM!!” I screamed in
panic. Nick started to cry again and I shushed him hysterically.
“MOM!!!” I felt her neck
for a pulse. Nothing.
“ MOM!!!!!!!” I yelled and
I started crying also “Nick call 911” and I went back to her side.
“Mom” I whispered “MOM
DON’T LEAVE ME!” “Melly” Nick whispered holding the portable phone out to me
“Melly they wants you to
talk, not me” I wiped my eyes and took two deep breaths. “Nick , stay by
mommy’s side okay?” I patted his light brown head and took the phone from him.
“This is Melinda” I said
my voice shaking “I am Nick’s older sister”.
“Ma’am we need you to tell
us what is wrong. Is she breathing? Check her mouth for any poison residue or
anything she could have choked on. DO NOT MOVE HER AT ALL. Do you understand?”
I nodded mutely then realized she couldn’t see me.
“I understand” I said
breaking out in tears again
“ Good girl, now just stay on the line and we are sending an
ambulance right now” My mom’s life depended on me.
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I was still
reeling from the fact that my dad contacted us after EIGHT YEARS. But if my mom
was happy…..then I should be too. I mean we are going to get help with the
bills and my mom is finally going to get a break, one that she hasn’t gotten
for 8 years. Not only would Tyler and Austin get better, but I wouldn’t have to
live with the fact that my brothers and I wouldn’t go to college, or that a
couple more months of this and they might have never gotten better. So looking
toward my humming mother’s point of view, this was relief, plain and simple
relief…
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I did exactly what the 911
operator told me to do. With a shaking hand I checked her mouth and found no
residue and nothing that could have caused her to choke. “There is no residue
and there is no choking hazard” I told the woman. I checked her pulse and I
found nothing, dead nothing.
“ There is no pulse” I
said “ THERE IS NO PULSE” I screamed “MY MOTHER HAS NO FREAKIN PULSE”
“Ma’am calm down, if your mother is still alive, we need you
there to help us out, now breathe in ma’am and continue telling us things.” I
took a couple of deep breaths and looked for breathing.
“Wait……” I said looking
very closely “I think…….” “Yes?
Ma’am? Please finish” There it was. A very slight movement, her chest rose so
faintly that I had not noticed it before.
My mother is alive” I whispered to the lady.
“Okay Ma’am the ambulance is on its way, just stay with your
mother and do not move her.”
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An
ambulance siren woke me up from the couch where I had fallen asleep. “And now
on to Lana Ross” said the announcer on the news channel. I stretched, turned
off the small T.V. and went to check on Tyler and Austin. They were gone.
”Mom?! Ty?!
Austin?!” I called out and the echo in the empty apartment sounded weird. Then
I noticed the flashing lights outside the window. I rushed out the open door
running outside. I noticed a lot of people crowded around an ambulance in front
of a house just across the street. I saw Mom, Ty, and Austin in the crowd.
Before they disappeared again, I rushed through the crowd and made it to the
rest of my family. That is when I noticed Melinda and her little brother Nick
standing in the doorway, crying, as they watched a woman being wheeled out on a
stretcher. As soon as she was in the ambulance, the doors closed and the
ambulance left, sirens sounding.
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