Ghost of the Hospital

I was dying of terminal bone cancer while my husband was traveling across the country with his depressed first love.

With only a few days left to live, I called him from my hospital bed.

He only snapped at me through the phone.

“Can’t you be a little more understanding? Macy is severely sick. What’s wrong with me keeping her company?”

I was wheeled into the operating room completely alone. The surgery failed, and I drew my last breath on that freezing operating table.

A whole month passed b