Eventually Our Turn

When Emmeline was super little and in the ICU we had the best room.  It was right across from the nurses station so they could never forget about us.  Every time they sat down they would look up and see us and feel compelled to make sure there wasn't anything we needed.
This room also gave me a great view of the info board for all the patients on the floor.  Don't worry, no one's privacy was violated.  It only had first and  last initial, who their nurse was, who their Dr was, and their room #.  At the very end there was a small box.  In every patients box was drawn a small heart.  Every box except Emmeline's.  I finally asked our nurse what it meant.  Emmeline was the only patient in the ICU ( and it was fairly full)  that wasn't a heart patient.  At the time I thought how lucky we were that her heart had been checked out and we didn't have anything to worry about.  Yeah...
I should have known better.  I guess it's our turn now.  Now that little drawn heart will be us.  It's amazing now significant a little drawing can be.  Hopefully it will be our only time with that on our board...Maybe I shouldn't have said that....