Mallard at dawn, originally uploaded by Memotions.
I’ve mentioned a few times recently a family friend who was hospitalized, and then in the ICU. She’d had a brain hemorrhage and other complications, and she’d been on life support for several days. All her children had flown in to say goodbye. Her family had made the hard choice to take her off machines.
They did turn everything off, and she was on fluids only.
And then she woke up. Within a day she was talking. Today she started walking again.
What a crazy, wonderful thing.
This seems a good time to add another thank you to all who sent well-wishes for my mom’s surgery this week. She’s doing well also, her foot swathed in bandages and propped up high on her bed, her nightstand and headboard stacked high with books to keep her amused while she’s laid up.
That is absolutely wonderful; please keep us posted.
Um. Wow. Pretty much speechless. Glad your friend is recovering — and your mother is doing well.
Oh, it’s good to hear good news once in a while! This is awesome.
Isn’t it amazing? I was thrilled to hear that she was talking, but I confess I expected she’d be confined to bed for the rest of her days. The thought of her walking around … incredible.
It’s like a patient history by Oliver Sacks, or an episode of House.
Amazing! That is terrific news on all counts.
That is fantastic!
How amazingly fantastically incredibly miraculous!