Kids get thirsty.
Kids get tired.
Kids lose weight during growth spurts.
Kids catch stomach bugs.
And on a beach vacation in North Carolina, increased thirst hardly sounded like an emergency.
That was exactly why the signs could be missed.
Lydia nodded, but tears were already running down her cheeks.
I put my arm around her.
For the first time since we’d arrived in the Outer Banks, there was nothing left for us to argue about.
No nurse versus sister.
No overreacting versus relaxing.
No question of whether I was seeing danger everywhere.
There was only Finn.
A nurse came out a few minutes later and told us we could see him.
Shane was already beside the bed.
I had seen thousands of hospital rooms in my career, but walking into one with my nephew in the bed changed everything about it.
The monitor wasn’t just a monitor.
