'It's really nothing, Beje.' My dad calls me Beje, which he got from shortening the initials of my first and middle names: Brandon Joseph. My dad sat down on the edge of the hospital bed, shivering and occasionally coughing.Ĭough. After taking his vitals, she escorted us to our room and told us the doctor would be right in. A different nurse appeared and told us to follow her. The nurse dialed a number and spoke hurriedly into the phone. 'My dad's having a heart attack, and you need to see him right now.' 'Beje,' he said, as we walked to the front desk, 'just let me handle this.
My dad has a family history of heart stuff, so when the chest pains started around midnight three years ago, my mom made me take him to the hospital. 'Where others see but the Dawn coming over the hill, I see the sons of God shouting for joy.' -William Blake
