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Please nofor sohim drive away

Please don’t letI don’t want to be like my mother

I won’t be like my mother

CHAPTER FOUR

EDITH WINTERS CAME into the clinic at least once a h she had all the usual aging complaints that were all too real, hty-year-old was lonely and came in to be around other humans who cared about her

The woman lived alone, had no local family, and her only relative as far as McKenzie kneas a son who lived in Florida and rarely came home to visit

“How long have these sy you, Mrs Winters?”

“Since last week”

Last week Because when you had severe abdominal pain and no bowel movements for four days it was normal to wait a week to seek care Not

“I didn’t want to bother anyone”

“Any time a symptom is severe and persistent, you need to be checked further”

“I would have cootten worse”

Seriously, she’d seen Edith less than a o and it had only been teeks prior to that she’d been in the clinic for medication refills Severe abdominal pain and no bowel movement was a lot more than what usually prompted her to come to the clinic “What made you decide you needed to be seen?”

The woh McKenzie’s schedule had been full, she’d agreed for the worown quite fond of the little lady and figured she’d be prescribing a hug and reassurance that everything was fine

“There was blood when I spit up this ”