Crying for Help
“I knew it didn’t affect me personally, but there was something deeply unsettling about the prospect of taking a 12-year-old girl to visit her comatose mother, and it made me anxious in ways I couldn’t quite pin down. I didn’t know if we’d be going in with Sophia, but I suspected we might be. It would be distressing for her, surely, and she’d need our support.
But what would it be like to go in there, seeing Sophia’s mother like that? I had this vision – learned from years of watching hospital d...ramas on TV – of her lying there, motionless, wired up to stuff, the rhythmic sound of a ventilator hissing the only noise in the deathly hush. What did you do in a situation like that? Did Sophia talk to her? Did she have any sense of the hopelessness of the situation? And what about the future? What was it doing to her, psychologically? I found it creepy and disturbing. I couldn’t help it.
But it wasn’t for me to think about the future. I needed to concentrate on the here and now.MoreLess
But what would it be like to go in there, seeing Sophia’s mother like that? I had this vision – learned from years of watching hospital d...ramas on TV – of her lying there, motionless, wired up to stuff, the rhythmic sound of a ventilator hissing the only noise in the deathly hush. What did you do in a situation like that? Did Sophia talk to her? Did she have any sense of the hopelessness of the situation? And what about the future? What was it doing to her, psychologically? I found it creepy and disturbing. I couldn’t help it.
But it wasn’t for me to think about the future. I needed to concentrate on the here and now.MoreLess
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