Writing Fodder

Holding my husband’s hand before he went back for surgery….

Saying “see you when you wake up” and kissing him goodbye…

Waiting in the waiting room….

Eavesdropping on a family of sisters, who passed the time engaging in a lively discussion about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes….

The emotion I felt when we heard the surgeon was putting Ryan’s kidney into his younger brother’s body….

The emotion we all felt when we heard that kidney started working immediately….

My husband lying in the hospital bed after...