Page 71 of In Sheets of Rain


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“He needed fluids.”

Gareth still didn’t say anything.

“I couldn’t get a line in,” I whispered. “I tried. I stuck him everywhere I could think of. Sean pulled the ambulance over, but I’d already tried so many times, there weren’t any decent veins left for him to use. He needed fluids. His blood pressure was too low. I couldn’t get the line in.”

Gareth said softly, “Is that what you think about the most?”

“I wasn’t good enough.”

“Kylee,” Gareth said. “You didn’t fail. You tried your best. His veins had collapsed. There was nothing you could have done differently.”

“But I wasn’t good enough.”

Gareth let out a long, barely perceptible breath of air.

“Is that what you think about the most, Kylee? That you weren’t good enough?”

I looked him in the eyes and said, “Yes.”

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