Book excerpt: Jill Markum learns that her eight-year-old son has been rushed to the emergency room from his grade school. Not knowing if her son will live or die, Jill starts down a road that no parent in the world should have to travela]yet many must! With Jill, the reader will question, aWhat happened? Will her little boy live, or will he die? And how much sorrow can a mother take before her heart is crushed under the strain of the trials and tribulations associated with a parentas undying love for her child?a It Only Takes a Second contains all of the elements of lifeas journeyagut-wrenching tears and sorrow, injury, death, fear, happiness, love and laughter.