{"id":1557,"date":"2026-10-31T04:44:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovenews.store\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2026-10-31T04:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:44:04","slug":"if-shes-dead-well-come-otherwise-weve-got-a-turkey-in-the-oven-my-mother-told-the-hospital-i-was-unconscious-after-a-truck-crushed-my-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovenews.store\/?p=1557","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIf she\u2019s dead, we\u2019ll come. Otherwise, we\u2019ve got a turkey in the oven,\u201d my mother told the hospital. I was unconscious after a truck crushed my driver\u2019s door, bleeding internally while surgeons fought to save me. My father was an ER doctor. He knew exactly what that meant. Yet someone else was waiting outside my room\u2014and he knew my father."},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cIf she\u2019s dead, we\u2019ll come. Otherwise, we\u2019ve got a turkey in the oven,\u201d my mother told the hospital. I was unconscious after a truck crushed my driver\u2019s door, bleeding internally while surgeons fought to save me. My father was an ER doctor. He knew exactly what that meant. Yet someone else was waiting outside my room\u2014and he knew my father.<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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Part 1\u2026 The Thanksgiving Dinner That Mattered More Than My Life<\/h2>\n

\u201cIf she\u2019s dead, we\u2019ll come. Otherwise, we\u2019ve got a turkey in the oven.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those were my mother\u2019s exact words when the hospital called to tell her I\u2019d been critically injured in a car accident.<\/p>\n

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I didn\u2019t hear her say them.<\/p>\n

I was unconscious, lying on an operating table while a surgeon tried to stop the bleeding inside my abdomen.<\/p>\n

I learned what she\u2019d said the following morning.<\/p>\n

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And the worst part?<\/p>\n

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