Hole

Suzanne 2022-04-19 09:02:22

When my mother left, I was more than a month away from my 18th birthday.

I remember a very hot summer, the heat and the pain were like a catastrophe and I couldn't breathe.
I stayed in the ward for a month and stayed up all night, but I fell asleep unexpectedly that night...
I woke up intermittently several times in the middle, and I woke up at 6 in the morning. I told my mother to go ahead with the blood test today, even though the veins in the back of her hand were fragile and all that was done was palliative care. The mother nodded slightly. The nurse was called, and he was about to puncture the needle, but his heartbeat, contrary to the weather outside the window, suddenly slowed down until it stopped. I think this day has finally come...

The rescue after that has become very cruel. My father was at home the day before, and in the morning, he received the news and rushed to
the empty ward. I alone recruited doctors and nurses for first aid.
I wanted to stop this. The futility of my mother when I saw the brown blood coming out of my nostrils, ears, and mouth
when I saw my mother taking off her oxygen mask , I told myself that rescuing was probably the worst decision I ever made. This picture will forever freeze in my mind, for a school start. For a student who is only in the third year of high school, it is too cruel and the final cleaning work is complicated. Comb my mother's hair with a comb. I can't hold back the tears that fall on her body. If the older generation said this, she would be very uncomfortable when she walked away, so she held it quietly. I took my mother's right hand and warmed her gradually cold hand with my own temperature. Even after 6 years, I still feel that this is a dream, a dream that I can never wake up from . Express this kind of feeling, because I grew up and the dream should wake up
























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  • Daigo Kobayashi: [to the grieving family] The right of encoffinment is to prepare the deceased for a peaceful departure. Please come closer and watch. I will now wipe the body.

  • Sonezaki: The orchestra is dissolved.