The paramedic froze mid-motion, his gloved hand hovering just above Sarah\u2019s abdomen.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat envelope?\u201d he asked, sharper now.<\/p>\n
But Sarah had already squeezed her eyes shut again, her face contorting as another wave of pain ripped through her. Her fingers clutched my sleeve like she was trying to anchor herself to something real.<\/p>\n
\u201cSir, we need to move,\u201d the second paramedic said, urgency rising. \u201cWe can talk on the way.\u201d<\/p>\n
I nodded, but my mind wasn\u2019t in the room anymore.<\/p>\n
It was on my phone.<\/p>\n
Still vibrating.<\/p>\n
My mother\u2019s name flashing again and again.<\/p>\n
Diane Carter.<\/p>\n
I declined the call.<\/p>\n
Hard.<\/p>\n
The ride to the hospital blurred into fragments\u2014sirens screaming, the medic calling out vitals, Sarah\u2019s strained breathing counting seconds between contractions or spasms or something worse.<\/p>\n
I sat beside her, holding her hand, but my thumb kept brushing against my phone screen.<\/p>\n
That second name.<\/p>\n
The paramedic froze mid-motion, his gloved hand hovering just above Sarah\u2019s abdomen. \u201cWhat envelope?\u201d he asked, sharper now. But Sarah…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishdaily.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishdaily.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishdaily.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishdaily.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishdaily.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dishdaily.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/dishdaily.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishdaily.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishdaily.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishdaily.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishdaily.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}