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Be Not Afraid Couragecarefully avoided my hospital room, and went off to thecafeteria with a cousin. But despite her uncommunicativeexterior, I knew she was going through a lot underneath.So I was not surprised when it all hung out later. AfterIsaiah had died, she held him and wept, “Mom, I neverheld him alive.”Given Isaiah’s condition, there was little the hospitalcould offer that Ramona and Barry couldn’t. And sothey took him out of the intensive care unit and hometo the family. He died the same evening:I had prepared a small bassinet for Isaiah, but henever used it – we never stopped holding him once wegot out of the car. Around 7:30 p.m., his brother, whohad him in his arms, said, “Mom, I think Isaiah needschanging.” I took him and laid him on the couch, and hesuddenly stiffened and turned purple. I had been toldto expect something like this, but when the momentcame I out-and-out panicked. I felt completely helpless.Handing Isaiah to his dad, I looked frantically for thelocal hospice number, but when I finally got through,they couldn’t seem to make out who I was or what I wastalking about. I tried the hospital next, and asked forAmy or Sue, Isaiah’s nurses. They came as soon as they18