"Im sorry"
The words hit me like a stack of bricks.
"Im sorry"
But she wasnt really asking for forgivness. That child was not special to her, therefore, she was not wounded at the idea that he was dead. Gone.
It took a while to get through.
They said that his continuous cough was caused by an infection, which then meant his lungs filled with a type of liquid. Like when you have a blister, it swells with liquid, and then the stuff the doctor gave him to help him turns this liquid to an acid, which burned through the muscle holding his windpipe open. This meant he was fighting for breath when he eventually suffocated in his own body fluid.
My brother burnt himself inside out.
My father, was the one responsible.
