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"We are coming up on the third anniversary of my sister's seizure. On the morning of March 3, 2015 The Medical Center of Aurora called home and my twin answered. He tossed the phone to me, and, to my surprise Angie was on the line. After going back and forth, she told me that my sister has suffered a seizure and I needed to be with her. I rushed to the hospital and tried to wrap my head around the situation that was unfolding.\n\nI had seen so much go wrong with her treatments, but I had never seen her like this. The doctors were scrambling to figure out what kind of patient she would be once she woke. For me though, I was left to wonder if she even was going to wake up.\n\nAfter all the staff from fifth floor had come to see that we were OK and friends had gone home, I was alone, in the darkness of night, with all of the machines beeping and blinking these were the thoughts that were running through my head...\n\nThere is a girl\n\nA young woman\n\nNearly twenty-eight\n\nYears of age\n\nBeen by her side\n\nMore often than\n\nI’ve been alone\n\nFor far too long\n\nNo different than the rest\n\nThis chose her\n\nFor what reason\n\nWe are all so perplexed\n\nHer breath, she breathes\n\nSo forced\n\nA choice I’m not sure\n\nTruly chosen\n\nGaped mouth\n\nAs sleep has taken hold\n\nA false picture\n\nBetraying the truths that\n\nHer body holds\n\nWonder if the ghost I see\n\nIs the lasting image\n\nThat I shall forever see\n\nWhen my mind\n\nConjures up memories\n\nThe cards of life\n\nShe has been dealt\n\nAre of a game\n\nThat no human soul\n\nShould have to play\n\nAll the adventures to be had\n\nJourneys through utopias\n\nAll the places yet to be seen\n\nThat her eyes will never see\n\nIt  will be hard\n\nHarder than my imagination\n\nCan imagine now\n\nUnforeseeable when she\n\nWill reach the peak\n\nWhen this darkness envelops her\n\nWill I then be able to see\n\nUncertainty has filled my life\n\nTry to articulate words when speaking\n\nStrung together carefully\n\nHiding the emotional thoughts\n\nSpinning like a hurricane\n\nJumbled with worries\n\nI can no longer control\n\nAs time steals her away\n\nTry to catch a broken life\n\nBefore the shards are in the ground\n\nSo hard when you\n\nCan no longer do\n\nBecause it simply is done\n\nWaiting causes pain, or it did\n\nWith no choices, it used to hurt\n\nThought these scars\n\nWere the ones that people say\n\nTime can never heal\n\nBut numbness fills\n\nThe void when\n\nReality sets in\n\nThis thing inside of her\n\nShe wouldn’t, she couldn’t see\n\nNow known\n\nShown for all to see\n\nEating away at her\n\nStealing away the girl\n\nJust twenty-eight\n\nYears young\n\nWhen I read through this, I am astounded out just how far she — how far we –  have come. It is wonderful knowing that she has been in remission for just over a year now. I am and continue to be marveled by how her journey unfolded but grateful that against every odd, she is still here with us today.\n\n "
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