My grief observed

Three years ago today, an ER physician at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa gave me the worst news of my life – my mother was killed.

“You need to come to the hospital, right now,” a nurse at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines told me calling from my father’s cell phone three years ago today.

My heart was racing as I traveled to the hospital not knowing what happened with my parents other than knowing they were in an accident, but fearing the worst.

My worst fears were partially realize…