Piece of my Heart

My husband and I were on our way home after taking my Dad out to his Birthday breakfast. We went to the mall for a few things, pulled into a fast food restaurant drive-thru and my phone rang. I was in the drivers seat and pulling up to the window to get our food while answering the phone. It was my granddaughter and she is crying and screaming “Mom is dead!”. My world fell apart. All I can remember is screaming, crying, and saying “it must not be true!”.

I don’t remember how I did it but I made it out of the drive thru and parked in the nearest parking spot. My husband had me move into the passenger seat. While we sat parked in the parking lot the coroner calls me asking me questions about my daughter, it was all such a fog. I remember asking the coroner “is it really true? Is my daughter dead?” She replied “yes”. I started throwing up and handed the phone to my husband.