Chapter 59: Piper

Ripping the door open to my car, I plop down in the seat to Google the phone number for the hospital.

"Moby Cooper's room, please."

"One moment please." The sound of fingers on a keyboard fills the silence. "I'm sorry ma'am, there are no phones in the ICU rooms."

"Okay, how about the nurses' station, it's right outside his room."

"We aren't allowed to connect people to the ICU nursing station."

The bitch in me erupts. "Look, I appreciate you're doing your job, and I hope you can appreciate I'm simply doing mine. My husband is on that floor, and his mother just called me to tell me they're moving him to MUSC in roughly twelve minutes, and I'm not there. Now, you can either connect me to a nurse on that floor or when I get there and my husband has left, I will personally come find you and show you just how unhappy I really am."

"Let me put you on hold and see what I can do." She remains calm, but I can hear the unsettled tone in her voice.

"Thank you."

As I wait, I start