part three.

By now it had been hours since Emily was admitted and still no-one had told Suzy how her little girl was doing. Emily was the only thing Suzy had left. Emily’s father was a marine and went to serve in the war against Germany; Emily was only a few months old when he had to leave. It was the hardest thing he ever had to do. Seventeen months after being deployed Suzy got a letter in the mail, she opened and found a letter from the General of the Corp. and her husband’s dog tags. He died in the final battle defending his country. To this day Suzy has yet to tell Emily of her father and the courage he possessed.
Suzy thought about him a lot, most of the time without even realizing it, this was one of those times. In the middle of one of those memories the doctor came up and tapped Suzy on the shoulder. He stood in front of Suzy for a moment without saying a word, he could see the questions in her face. Suzy stared into his eyes searching for an answer. The doctor just nodded his head at Suzy and she knew Emily was okay. The only words Suzy could get out were, “ Can I…“and the doctor nodded his head once again and told Suzy the room her daughter was now in.

part two.

One early summer day, Emily was running, and jumping and playing with the other children. In the matter of ten minutes into playing Emily started to feel light-headed, and dizzy and began to cough soo much she couldn’t catch her breathe. She fainted in the middle of the playground and nobody noticed. It took twenty minutes for her mom to notice that Emily wasn’t running around with the other children and that something was terribly wrong. Suzy fond Em motionless and barely breathing on the dirt of the playground. Suzy called 911 and waited to hear the sirens of the ambulance. She never let go of Em’s hand, squeezing it till Suzy herself couldn’t feel her fingers. Emily lay in the back of the ambulance fighting for her life. The ambulance team rushed her into the door of the E.R. wing where a group of surgeons, doctors, nurses took the lifeless body of Emily away to save her life. Emily’s mom left at the entrance of the E.R. with so many questions and not a single answer.
Emily’s mom paced the waiting room over and over and over again. If she wasn’t pacing she was staring out the window. The sky went from bright blue with white puffy clouds and a big yellow sun to a black with gray rain clouds pouring down. She watched the rain slowly fall down the window pain and yearned to hold Emily in her arms.

part one.

    There once was a girl named Emily. Emily had a teddy bear that she adored; she took that bear with her everywhere. The teddy bear was medium in size. It had a pink nose and crystal blue eyes, its’ fur was chestnut brown with lighter paw pads. Emily called her, Teddy; it was Emily’s best friend. Teddy’s been with her through everything.
     When Emily was born she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. She was kept in the Intensive Care Unit till the age of two. Her mom gave Teddy to her the day she was admitted to the I.C.U. Emily is now five years old, her childhood was a difficult one but she fought through it. So far, she has been the only child born with tuberculosis to live past the age of four. She is known as “The Hospital’s Miracle Baby”, as well as her parents miracle baby. Em wants to be like the other kids but it’s hard for her to run around like they do on the playground.
     Emily tried her hardest to fit in, she would run and jump around like the others. Her mother would reprimand her everytime saying, “ Em you can’t run around. You have an illness, you aren’t like every-other kid. You’re special.” Em always took being special as a good thing; that’s all she ever listened to during that speech.