CHAPTER 37
“Did you hear about Grandma Lucy?” Ricky burst through the doorway and into the kitchen where Mom was fixing dinner.
“Of course I did. Who do you think has been updating the prayer chain? I’ve had so many phone calls I nearly burned the biscuits.”
“Forget the biscuits. Isn’t there something we can do?”
“Do? Did you all of a sudden get a medical degree without telling me? Do you know how to cure a woman’s failing heart?”
“It’s her heart?” Ricky asked. “I didn’t know. I just heard that she was at the hospital again. Dad said there was an ambulance in front of Safe Anchorage, and he saw them carrying her out on a stretcher. What is it? Is it serious?”
His mother sighed. “The way I see it, that woman’s past her time if you ask me.” She shrugged and focused on chopping her onio
