A healthy person’s blood pressure should be around 120/80. My mom’s was not even close to that. Her blood pressure was 59/10. At one point, her blood pressure was so low that the machine couldn’t even detect it half the time. No one thought that my mother was going to live, but I had hope. I even brought my mom’s favorite dog, even though the nurse told me to be careful because he could get in to a lot of trouble if anyone saw me take him into her room. When I set him down on top of my mom’s bed, he was scared. He didn’t know what had become of my mom; he didn’t know what any of those tubes did. When my mom woke up, we had to tell her that her dog had licked her a lot; she would feel hurt if she learned that her dog was scared of her. So,
