Professor Hernandez, fortunately, did not force me to make a decision right away. He said that, although I had less than nine months left to live, he understood how hard this decision was for me to make. He said he would discuss it with my parents first and that I should probably discuss it with them before I did anything as well.
That was probably a wise idea, but when I returned to my dorm that night, I didn’t call my parents right away. Instead, tired and exhausted from the excitement of the day, I decided to shower and go to bed early. It helped that Courtney and the other two girls who shared our dorm were out, which meant that the dorm was dark and quiet enough for me to sleep in.
Falling asleep, however, didn’t save me from my troubles. It just gave me a whole new set of them to
