Throughout all of this every evening for the entire week Gian phoned Anna. For hours he'd listen to her tidal wave of unrelenting sadness. Consoling her. Comforting her. Anna couldn’t imagine how she would have survived without his calls.
But what Anna wanted most in the world was to hear the doctors say her mother would live. And to hear Gian say he loved her.
Three days later the doctors took Anna and Carol aside to say their mother was going to be okay. Anna flew home the following day and slept for a week.
It took months for her mother to recover. But she did.
