A " NO LONGER NOMADS " SERIES

Nobody expects to die in the middle of their son's wedding weekend.

You don't expect to stagger through a rehearsal dinner with a 104° fever. You don't think a backyard baseball game with your boys is going to rip your insides apart. And you definitely don't expect a freezing operating room to be the place where a five-year-old's prayer gets answered.

But that's exactly what happened to Mike McKinsey.

He spent three miserable days just trying to hold it together so he wouldn't miss his son's wedding—smiling in pictures, pretending he was okay, even though he clearly wasn't. Everyone figured it was just the flu. It wasn't until the wedding was over that he finally said, "Alright, I need to get checked out," and went to the ER.

A nurse tapped his foot, an

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