46. Goodbye
When my special needs son was 10, he had to have a very serious surgery. It was an 8-hour procedure and it was a pretty risky operation. We did not tell him these risks.
Right before they wheeled him into surgery, he hugged me and said “Goodbye. Forever…”. He made it through and his quality of life was dramatically improved by the surgery. Scariest 8 hours of my life though.
