The Importance of Self-Isolation

Riley's own mother was dying ten years ago or more, maybe more. He'd been a prized of it in a late-night phone call from her second husband. By the time he got there, standby on the first flight out of Buffalo, she was in a coma. Her system was shutting down. Even though there would be no transplant or even a possibility of it because donor livers were in short supply and went only to people who could fully utilize them. Riley himself had to go home and self-isolate. But within minutes of hanging up the phone, he'd come round because this wasn't about him. It was about her, his mother, and whatever the end