By Elizabeth Alexander
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A few months later, Solo comes domestic from tuition and says: i do know what the yellow liquid used to be. It used to be plasma. Blood separates into crimson and yellow, plasma and protein, he tells me. I inform Simon: go away, get the telephone, get your brother, name 911, carry me the telephone, and i'm on my own with Ficre. His eyes face mine at once. he's so hot; he's the precise temperature. One 1/2 his face turns out slack to me so I then imagine, he has had a stroke and that it truly is worse than a concussion, yet he'll get well. I by no means examine his center. either kids seem with the telephone; there's no time to interact their panic. 9-1-1. I communicate to the operator. I adventure myself as completely calm, cool, and picked up, yet she says, “Let me converse to the kid, ma’am. you want to settle down. positioned the kid at the telephone. ” I inform the youngsters: cross upstairs, look forward to the ambulance, deliver them down fast after they come. i'm on my own back with Ficre. it is only the 2 folks. I converse to him, low and pressing and mild. I carry him rigorously and check out to wake him with my phrases and contact. I breathe into his hot mouth. I don’t try and raise him, lest his backbone be injured. i'm yes he can pay attention me. a tender lady comes down into my basement, an individual i have not noticeable. “I’m an RN. i used to be jogging via your place and observed your boys open air, they usually advised me what occurred. permit me support. ” An angel. She takes over the CPR and likewise calls 911 back and solutions their questions. i will not pay attention her solutions. She is there whilst the paramedics come. once they circulate me apart to take over, i glance to her to work out if I may still allow them to, and he or she nods. She is my advisor now. i am going upstairs. My next-door neighbor Stephanie is within the lobby. I name my good friend Tracey, who lives round the nook, inform her Ficre has to visit the sanatorium and that i desire her to stick with the youngsters. The paramedics inform me I should still experience with them to the medical institution, yet within the entrance with the motive force, as they want area to “work on him” within the again. i would like my palms on his physique, so he understands i'm there. It’s me, Elizabeth. It’s Lizzy. yet they insist I sit down within the entrance. We force down Whitney road in gradual movement. “I should still name anyone, shouldn’t I? ” I say, to the motive force, who's a girl. “Yes, you need to name someone,” she says. “I don’t recognize who to call,” I say. the youngsters are secure, my mom and dad are 1000s of miles away, and that i don’t comprehend what's taking place. The medics rush him into the emergency room, and the medical professionals usher me within the roomette the place they paintings. I hold my hand on his calf the complete time. he's nonetheless hot. They bring to an end his outfits. As his physique is uncovered, an Indian health care provider in a turban closes the curtains. They pump him and leap him and IV him. they retain doing it. “Anyone have the other rules? ” shouts the health practitioner, when they have attempted and attempted. after which he appears to be like immediately and deep into my eyes and says the phrases they are saying within the videos which are still the single phrases: We did every little thing shall we do for him. Which I observed. in a while i'm going to research it was once seven p. m. , Wednesday, April four, 2012. The penis, that's mine by myself, lies slumbering on his thigh, nestled in its hair, the center outdoors his physique, and that's what I keep in mind of his physique, after the emergency room surgeon met my eyes and made his pronouncement.