Scottsdale, Arizona
Early The Next Day
Pamela sat in the ICU room watching her father sleep. He was exhausted and she didn’t want to wake him, having arrived so early in the morning on the private flight from Puerto Rico. The call nurse informed her his doctor would be in but around eight a.m. She had plenty of rest on the flight and was now too anxious to sit and do nothing for the next few hours before the doctor arrived.
She wistfully smiled while staring at him. Memories of her father swirled in her head. The first time he took her to the dojo to learn Aikido as a child. Making pancakes for Mother’s Day. An Aikido tournament in Tokyo where she witnessed her father win. His win inspired her all the more to train and become excellent. Funerals of his special ops buddies who he honored
