Jun 21, 2008 07:06 PM - That you could see a human being..not just a lump of cells...that you knew that the patient....was more in life.....makes you one very special person..

Jun 21, 2008 07:17 PM - bravo interleukin! i love it! i love it! i love it!! thanks a bunch!

Jun 23, 2008 11:06 AM - This is beautifully written. However, I find it somewhat disturbing that this article, which can provoke such feeling, cannot spell out the word "God".
Feelings and emotions transcend "Political Correctness." At first, upon seeing "G-d" I thought of the curse g-damn. Took some of the "magic" out of the article for me.

Jun 23, 2008 08:58 PM - Dear Vanderfk,

Thank you for pointing that out. I may be lots of things, but politically correct I am not.

I was simply on auto-pilot. Must be the same reason I forgot the word "room" when I typed, "In the waiting sits a man."

Needless to say, there'll be no excuse for that faux pas again

Take care,

Mark

Jun 26, 2008 03:44 AM - speechless.....

Jun 26, 2008 03:21 PM - What a compelling, beautiful, and sensitive narrative.

Thank You.

Jun 27, 2008 03:47 PM - This is absolutely beautiful. So often we forget that the patient is/was someones wife/mother friend.....One of the nursing homes I worked at years ago,requested that a picture of the resident when they were young be placed by the bedside. To remind the staff that hey...we were once young too.

Jul 04, 2008 12:11 AM - Beautiful...it made me cry!

Jul 11, 2008 02:06 AM - wow, very thoughtfull, sensitive, clean....... very touchy.....
you did a great job, thanks.

Jul 12, 2008 08:56 PM - A well written story but a tear-jerker none the less...