Alexander

“The surgery was successful, Mr. Alexander. Your wife is out of danger.” 

I never would have thought that those words would someday bring me an unexplainable amount of peace. But that was what I felt a week ago when the doctor passed that information and moments later when my wife was wheeled out of the ER alive; unconscious but alive. 

I've refused to leave her side since then. Every day since then has bled into the same routine. I sit beside her bed, keep my fingers ...