I\u2019m sixty-two, four decades on a motorcycle, and I thought I\u2019d seen all the cruelty this world could throw at someone. I was wrong. Nothing could have prepared me for watching a hospital administrator tell a mother that her six-year-old, dying of cancer, had to leave because her insurance had \u201crun out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her name was Aina. Hairless from chemotherapy, all bones under a thin blanket, curled in her mother\u2019s arms while the hospital lobby buzzed around them as if nothing was happening. Her mother, Sarah, listened as the administrator explained why they had to go.<\/p>\n
\u201cMa\u2019am, your daughter is stable enough for home hospice. We need the bed\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStable?\u201d Sarah\u2019s voice broke. \u201cShe\u2019s dying. Maybe just days left. And you want me to take her home? We\u2019re homeless. Living in our car.\u201d<\/p>\n
Something inside me snapped. I\u2019d been waiting for news on a club brother after a bike accident, but what I heard made my blood boil. I stood, stepped forward in my leather vest and patches. The administrator glanced at me and swallowed hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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