Pretty Savage Things :
My dad died suddenly with me in the emergency room. He woke up from a nap and said he had a back ache, he must have slept funny. Then he went to the bathroom, he felt nauseous, and he was in there about 10 min and I knocked to check on him and he said he was ok just now his legs fell asleep. He came out and I spoke to him and I felt something was wrong, I wanted to call an ambulance but he told me I always crazy, for what a backache? I told him he had to go and he was mad about it but said fine I’d drive him and he was mad on the way there and said I was ridiculous. It was just 6 min to the ER, I dropped him and he walked in while I parked and when I went in it was full but no dad. They said they took him back and I knew that was not good. I went back and they were running tests, his blood pressure was too low and they said he needed medication to raise it and they needed to invert him, head down feet up to keep blood flowing to his brain. Then they told us they needed to get him in to get an mri and they left us. He begged me to help him up, that laying like this was killing him, it hurt so bad now. I told him you need the blood to your brain. And he begged again to help him up and then he got very calm and held my hands and told me I’m going to die. I tried to tell him that no were here it’s going to be ok and he told me no, listen to me, I’m dying. I’m going to have to leave you. I need you to know that I love you more than anything and that it’s going to be ok. I told him I loved him more than anything too and that it was going to be ok and then I started screaming for help and tried to let go to go to the door for help and he held on and he told me shhh, shhhhsh, just stay with me. He just looked in my eyes as long as he could and then he just let go. He died right there, from an aortic dissection. He was right, they were killing him, the raising of his blood pressure made him bleeedout faster and the inverting him forced more blood through the dissection. They told me that they’d suspected it but there was nothing they could have done to save him. Nothing was ok and I miss him every day for 22 years now.
2026-10-17 07:45:58