Laura Day

I was headed home, and I hadn't heard from Laura in a while, and that was unusual.

And so I tried calling her, and several phone calls, no answer.

Finally, a nurse answers the phone, and I heard the frightening words, it's Taylor.

It's early fall in Corpus Christi, and a trip to the beach appears to have gone terribly wrong.

Describe that drive to the hospital.

Just going very fast.

You know, just trying to get there as quickly as possible.

My first call was to Kelly to let her know to get to the hospital immediately.

After about 20 minutes, Laura arrives at the hospital with Taylor.

When I walked into the hospital, I could clearly see the doctors trying to resuscitate him.

What happened at the hospital?

What happened at the hospital is they tried to revive him, but he was already gone.

Laying there, lifeless, blue, grayish blue.

As soon as I saw him, I knew he was gone.

In the back of my head, I may have known, but my mind would not let me believe that I had just lost my boy.

And what is Laura doing?

She was standing there, just not doing anything, not crying, nothing, just standing there as if she had the right to be there.

Didn't try to comfort you?

No.

It was probably a good thing she didn't.