They left their two-month-old with me while they went shopping. But his desperate crying wouldn’t stop I checked his diaper and what I found made my hands tremble. I grabbed him and rushed to the hospital.
They left their two-month-old with me while they went shopping. But his desperate crying wouldn’t stop I checked his diaper and what I found made my hands tremble. I grabbed him and rushed to the hospital.
His cries jolted me back into action. Without second-guessing, I bundled him in his blanket, cradled him as carefully as I could, and rushed out the door. Moments later, I was waving down a taxi.
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The cab sped down the Castellana, but every traffic light felt like an eternity. I stroked his forehead, murmuring to him, trying anything to soothe the agony in his voice. The driver, hearing the desperation in his cries, accelerated on his own.
“Hang on, sir. We’re almost there,” he said softly.
At the emergency entrance of San Carlos Clinical Hospital, I pushed through the doors, nearly out of breath. A nurse hurried over, alarmed by the expression on my face.
“It’s my grandson… he’s been crying for hours… and I saw something unusual… please help him,” I pleaded.
