No Regrets
“Yolanda was waiting for her, and although Molly was desperate to see her sister, the nurse insisted she first talk with the neurosurgeon.
“The CT scan shows no brain activity,” Dr. James Parker told Molly, speaking to her more like to a nurse than to a concerned relative. “Which confirmed our worst suspicions. But Reece refused to accept that diagnosis and insisted she’d be all right if we relieved the pressure on her brain. So we did.”
Molly closed her eyes, knowing that the procedure meant in...serting a tube into the ventricle of her sister’s brain.
“And?” she asked weakly, reaching out to grasp the arm of a nearby chair when her legs began to feel a bit wobbly. Yolanda, who never missed a thing, pushed the chair over so Molly could lower herself into it.
“Instead of a clear cerebrospinal fluid, we got chunks of brain,” he said flatly. Brutally. “If I may be frank, given the fact that you’ve been an ER nurse yourself, at this point diagnosing death is only a formality.”MoreLess
“The CT scan shows no brain activity,” Dr. James Parker told Molly, speaking to her more like to a nurse than to a concerned relative. “Which confirmed our worst suspicions. But Reece refused to accept that diagnosis and insisted she’d be all right if we relieved the pressure on her brain. So we did.”
Molly closed her eyes, knowing that the procedure meant in...serting a tube into the ventricle of her sister’s brain.
“And?” she asked weakly, reaching out to grasp the arm of a nearby chair when her legs began to feel a bit wobbly. Yolanda, who never missed a thing, pushed the chair over so Molly could lower herself into it.
“Instead of a clear cerebrospinal fluid, we got chunks of brain,” he said flatly. Brutally. “If I may be frank, given the fact that you’ve been an ER nurse yourself, at this point diagnosing death is only a formality.”MoreLess
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