Forty-Eight Hours
It was on a pad on my desk from Tuesday.
I did not know why I had written it down.”
Paramedics were in that room at the eleven-minute mark.
The first thing the lead medic said, before anything else, standing over that casket, was: “Ma’am, are you telling me this kid is coded as deceased?”
And I said, “She has a pulse of twenty-two and she has been given something and I don’t know what.”
And he said, “Okay,” and went to work, and they had a line in her and were bagging her inside four minutes, and they had her out of that building at 2:41 in the afternoon.