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Submitted to Contest #150
Please, don’t do it…. I sobbed quietly, holding his hand. Please don’t leave me, I thought but didn’t say aloud. My sweet husband, Scott, lay in the hospital bed, a wasted version of his six-foot frame, withered down to less than 150 pounds, unable to walk any longer, losing ground every day. We had made the decision to move him to hospice, but I didn’t want us to do that because it implies giving up. His body was dying, a result of a life-saving surgery which fixed the basic problems but killed the blood supply to his bo...
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