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It felt like ages waiting for one of the doctors to come back in with some test results to discuss with us. For a moment we started to wonder if it would be during the next morning’s rounds, but all of us knew we weren’t going anywhere until we had some word about Josh’s condition.
One of the doctor’s had come in during the middle of the night to go over the event that happened to Josh on the football field.
“It was, technically speaking, a heart attack,” he said.
I gripped my mom’s arm, steeling myself as much as making sure she wasn’t going to collapse right there beside Josh’s bed.
“What? It can’t be.” My dad was beside himself. “He’s only 17…I’ve heard of that sort of thing, but isn’t that rare?”
The doctor made a kind of pained face. “Well, it all depends on the sort of event
