c
instead of an
x
for a variable, and a missing equal sign in
line 182, but aside from that, the app finally looks ready to go for beta. I almost
can’t believe it. I’ll celebrate with a pudding cup later.
I try to move on to completing the dosage table for diabetes in my
spreadsheet of the most prevalent chronic conditions, sorting through varying
ages and weights and medications. But I soon find myself staring at the blank
columns, my fingertips tapping away at the edge of my laptop instead, my mind
a million miles away.
Focus.
I reach over to grab my pocket notebook, crossing off number 14 and trying
to get the feeling of calm that usually comes from finishing to-do list items, but
it doesn’t come. I freeze as my pencil hovers over number 15, looking from the
blank columns and rows on my spreadsheet back down to “Complete dosage
table for diabetes.”
Unfinished. Ugh.
I chuck the notebook onto my bed, restlessness and unease filling my
stomach. Standing up, I walk over to the window, my hand pushing back the
blinds.
My eyes travel to the roof, to the spot where Will was standing earlier. I
know he was his usual self when I got up there, but I didn’t imagine the
coughing, and teetering. Or the fear.
Mr. “Death Comes for Us All” didn’t want to die.
Restless, I walk over to my med cart, hoping that moving on to “Before-bed
meds” on my to-do list will help calm me down. My fingers tap away on the
metal of the cart as I look at the sea of bottles, and then out the window again at
the roof, and then back at the bottles.
Is he even doing his treatments?
Barb can probably force him to take most of his meds, but she can’t be there
for every single dose. She can strap him into his AffloVest, but she can’t ensure
he keeps it on for the full half hour.
He’s probably not doing all his treatments.
I try to go over the meds in order of when I take them, shuffling them around
on the cart, the names all blurring together. Instead of feeling calm, I feel more
and more frustration, the anger climbing up the sides of my head.
I struggle with the cap on a mucus thinner, pressing down on it with all my
strength and trying to twist it off.
I don’t want him to die.
The thought climbs on top of the mountain of frustration and plants a flag,
clear and loud and so surprising to me that I don’t even understand it. I just see
him walking back to the edge of that roof. And even though he’s the actual
worst . . .
I don’t want him to die.
I twist the lid sharply and it comes flying off, pills showering down onto my
med cart. Angrily, I slam the bottle down, the pills jumping again with the force
of my hand. “Dammit!”
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