Waiting game my night 3

Lakeland Regional Medical Center (LRMC) is our hospital. Trauma Intensive Care Unit (TICU) is our waiting room. We wait and we wait. Will the phone ring and we can come see you, or is it the dreadful 2 hours of 7 to 9 am and 7 to 9 pm when we are not allowed.

When we first settled in TICU on Monday the other family was mostly teens. Their story was one of their friends (the girl who was there 99% of the time, her boyfriend) was car surfing and when they stopped he (we'll call him j) flew off that car, hit another and finally hit his head on the pavement. Thursday his life support was turned off. Friday his organs donated.
N was a girl who was in a motorcycle accident also. She hit a pole, then a truck ran over her. Only 3 people have been to see her. She is still here. No one has come back again. She is still here.
Tonight a car full of kids swerved to miss a car and hit a pole. No one had id's and one girl, the one hit by the tree, has been the only identified so far. Massive brain trauma apparently. She didn't make it through the night.

I do not like being here, hearing these stories, feeling their grief. Tonight is my night with you Billy. Sleep peacefully.

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Location:LRMC TICU Waiting room