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- PICU – Day two -Holding Hands.
I am sure that nurses are trained to do this. Every nurse I met had a way to take my mind off things or supported me when I most needed it. I am sure that they were looking after me just as much as Zach. Those conversations about normal things kept my mind from drifting away into dark places. - PICU – Frog legs
We walked towards the bed. I hardly recognised Zach as he lay there with tubes coming out from everywhere. His whole body was puffed up and his legs lay wide and bent at an angle like little frogs’ legs. I pulled on Emmanuel’s arm. “Is that the right bed? Is that him?” - Ronald McDonald House
I would have watched as they let a machine take it and become his heart for a period of time. I would have watched as they put a ‘line’ in his neck. I would have watched as they placed electrodes on his head. I would have watched as the numbers appeared on the monitors. I would have stayed through all of it and sat by him if they would have let me.
