Follow the Feeling (full entire free novel) part 18

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He ran through what it could be,

-Dementia

-Cancer

-A cold

-Alzheimers

-Nothing

He knew nothing, absolutely nothing! He held her warm hand in the ambulance as she wondered where the television had gone and Dennis’s family drove home to wait for news.

And,

“Why are you making a fuss of me?” she said several times, “I don’t want nobody ever to make a fuss over me.”

As I say, they were fine one moment and then, not so much.

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They waited hours in A and E…

There was shit everywhere, she could no longer control her bodily functions. Her eyes still held receptacle to Dennis’s enchanting glances but long ago he had run out of words.

She let out the odd ‘aarrrrr’ and screamed in pain every time her bowels told her something was coming.

The nurse cleaned her, took her bloods and asked the usual questions.

Dennis asked a usual one of his own.

“Yes, yes the doctor is very busy. He’ll be with you as quickly as he can…they were doing…