CHAPTER 18:

THANKS FOR THE REVIEWS! ONCE AGAIN I DON'T HAVE A BETA SO ALL MISTAKES ARE MINE

Ruthie and Martin got back from their honeymoon a week later when they went into the house there was there whole family

"Welcome Home" they all shouted in unison

There was all kinds of decorations everywhere drinks, and all the food you could ever want. They partied all night long at about 10 o'clock they all decided to call it a night

"Martin, it is getting late, I think we better head home."

"Okay, baby lets go and tell your parents bye."

Martin and Ruthie walked over to tell Eric and Annie bye and on the way they saw them dancing so happily like they were still teanagers.

"Mom, Dad!" Ruthie hollard as she tried to get there attention

They finally heard and turned around

"Sorry, Ruthie what did you want?" asked Eric

"Well, it is getting late and we wanted to head home."

"Okay, you two go home and have fun." said Annie

"Okay, we will bye love you guys." Maritin and Ruthie said in unison

With that Ruthie and Martin walked out the front door and got in to Martin car

and started the drive to there home

Meanwhile with Annie and Eric

Annie was downstairs cooking dinner for her Eric, Sam and David

"Annie, how long until dinner is ready?"

"about a half hour. Why?"

"Well I want to go and take a shower"

"Okay, Eric go take your shower and when you get done dinner should be done." Annie told him

"Okay." Eric said as he headed up the stairs.

When Annie was cooking she heard a huge bang but thought it was Sam and David because right away she heard them laughing. So she didn't think anything of it and went back to cooking

A little while longer Sam and David came down stairs.

"Hey mom what was that loud thump?" asked David

"I thought it was you guys."

"No, we thought it was you." they said in unison

With that Annie took off running upstairs and when she got up there she ran into her and Eric's room and then into the bathroom and there she saw Eric lying on the floor

"SAM, DAVID CALL 911 NOW!" she screamed as she ran over to Eric

She felt for a pulse and there wasn't one and at that time she started to do CPR and she kept doing that until the EMS got there when they finally did they took over and shocked Eric numerous times and they put him in the ambulance and started off to the hospital and on the way they got a faint heartbeat

Meanwhile outside in the waiting room Sam and David called everybody in the family and within minutes they were all there

Everyone was sitting out in the waiting room and not talking at all and was waiting for the doctor to come out with some news. About 10 minutes later Doctor Pickle came out and Annie jumped up

"What is wrong with him? Is he going to be okay?" She asked

"Mrs. Camden, when we got Eric here he had a very weak pause the EMS had to shcok him many times just to get a little heartbeat. He is at this time on life support because he is not able to breath on his own so we are having tha machine doing that for him."

"But is he going to be okay?" asked Mary already crying

"At this time we are not sure we think he might of had another heartattack. Since he is on life support he might not pull through this and we are not saying this as a deffinate but this is just one of the possiblites. At this time we are getting no reaction from his body which could mean brain damage then might happen because his body was without oxygen for so long... it was about 5 minutes that was five mintues the brain was not communcating with the rest of the body." Explained Dr. Pickle

Now everyone was crying

The very next day they were still there and Dr. Pickle came out to talk to Annie

"Mrs. Camden can I talk to you for a minute?"

"Dr. Pickle what ever you have to say to me you can say it to the rest of my family." Annie said with a tone that meant she was tired

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, now will you please just tell us."

"Okay, well Eric has a living will and it states that he does not want to be on life support and that means we are going to have to take him off of it."

"You can't be serious." Said Lucy is a rude tone

"I am and you have 24 hours from now to take him off of it. We are not doing this to hurt you Mrs. Camden this is just what we have on record for him

They were all talking out in the waiting room

"Mom, you can't do this. Dad was not in his right mind when he wrote this. You just cant" Said Ruthie

"Sweetie it was not up to me and your dad wanted this an there is nothing I can do to stop it" Said Annie

"Matt tell her that dad could come out of this. Tell her." Yelled Lucy

"Lucy, not many people wake up from this and dad is showing no sign of brain activity so that mean that he might not ever wake up and keeping him on life support." Matt explain with tears in his eyes

They talked about it somemore and then Annie went to talk to Dr. Pickle

"Dr.Pickle?"

"Yes, Mrs. Camden what can I do for you?"

"I have decided to take Eric off of life support because that is what he wanted but before i do this I wand a chace for me and All of my kids to say goodbye."

"Mrs. Camden you and your kids can take how ever long you want to say goodbye."

"Okay, thank you." Annie said as she wallked away sobbing

The nexy day everyone went to the hospital to say goodbye and when they did that they went back out to the waiting room as Annie stayed in there when they turned the machine off.

About 2 mintues later Annie came out running with tears and a huge smile.

"Mom, what is it?" asked Matt

"He is breathing on his own."

"WHAT?" they all said in unison

"He is breating on his own he is gettin about 40 breahts a minute"

"Mom that is so great." Mary said

"But the doctor still told us not to get are hopes up he still might not wake up. And I am not going to get all that happy until he opens his eyes."

They were all happy but at about 2:30 that morning the doctors came out to talk to Annie and the whole family with a sad look on his face.

"Mrs. Camden I am sorry to tell you that Eric passed away about 2 minutes ago."

"No, this can't be happening, he was just breathing how could this happen."

"His body was just tired he couldn't fight anymore." I am so sorry for you loss

3 days later was Eric's funeral and all the Camden's were there and after everyone had left Annie stayed behind to talk

"Eric, how could you leave like this you were doing fine. What went wrong how am I going to live with out you? I don't know if I can do it. You need to give me a sigh that every thing is going to be okay."

Right when Annie got done saying that the wind picked up and she knew right there that everything was going to be okay...

A/N

IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARY JO TREFZ October 10, 1942- May 2, 2006

this chapter was really hard for me to write because less than a week ago this is how my aunt passed away

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