Re: FRI: No Response
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Thu May 19 07:07:30 2005
And then she pulled the plug? LOL
art
At Wed, 18 May 2005, Joanne Bulley, MD wrote:
>
>No Response
>By Donna Parisi
>
>It was the third day my husband, Joe, had been in the intensive care
>unit following his fifth surgery for the removal of most of his
>remaining small intestine. The surgery took many more hours than
>expected. Joe was older and weaker, and he wasn’t responding.
>
>As I sat beside his bed, two nurses tried repeatedly to get him to
>cough, open his eyes, move a finger - anything to let them know he could
>hear them. He didn’t respond. I sat praying to God to please help Joe
>respond - any sign that he might survive.
>
>Finally, one of the nurses turned to me and suggested that perhaps if
>she knew something personal about our family, she could try to stimulate
>his response with that knowledge. She said, “Maybe you, as his
>daughter, could help us with such information.”
>
>I smiled and said, “I’ll be happy to give you personal information, and
>thank you for the compliment, but I’m his wife of forty-three years, not
>his daughter, and we’re about the same age.” The nurse looked at me and
>said, “The entire staff thought you were his daughter and had even
>commented how wonderful they thought it was that his daughter was with
>him all the time.”
>
>As they were expressing how I looked so young, a little cough came from
>my husband, and we all turned to stare at him.
>
>He didn’t open his eyes, but loud and clear he said, “She dyes her
>hair!”
>
>--
>Joanne Bulley, MD
>Keene, NH, USA
>
--
art fougner, md
"If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else."
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