GBE #22 AFTERLIFE
My last conversation with my sister Colleen was a brief call. She was going up to her camp and asked if I wanted to come with her. I was tired from my first day home from a trip I'd been on, and I didn't go with her. I have often wondered if I had, if it would have changed everything else and she would still be with us. One of the biggest regrets of my life. Her husband found her on the floor at camp when he arrived a few hours later. At the hospital they discovered she'd had a tubal pregnancy and performed surgery to remove it. Her 9-month-old daughter was with me at my parent's house. My Mom had been at the hospital all day working (she was the nursing supervisor) and then all evening with my sister but had come home because my niece had a fever that I couldn't get down. The phone rang right before I was going to wake her to go back in to spend the night with my Colleen. They had found my sister on the floo...