by Kenna | Jan 13, 2014 | The Making of Milagro Man: A Story of Miracles and Love |
Chapter Eleven: Darkness With a Splash of Light The nurses told me about a condition called ICU psychosis. When a person has been removed from reality for a length of time and put in a room with no windows, and only tubes, monitors, and people they don’t know, they...
by Kenna | Jan 12, 2014 | The Making of Milagro Man: A Story of Miracles and Love |
Chapter Twelve: New Room, New Issues Moving to a new room meant leaving the constant care of one full time nurse to a situation of one nurse for two patients. Right before leaving the downstairs critical care Steve had thrown up while lying flat on his back. His...
by Kenna | Jan 11, 2014 | The Making of Milagro Man: A Story of Miracles and Love |
Chapter Thirteen: Baby Steps…. Our new room on the second floor had a nice big window that allowed sunshine to fill Steve’s room each morning. This made all of us happy. The window represented a world beyond the hospital where birds still played in the trees and...
by Kenna | Jan 10, 2014 | The Making of Milagro Man: A Story of Miracles and Love |
Chapter Fourteen: Ripples of Self Love While Steve was on the second floor of ICU, his mom, sister, and I began to feel like we had a little more breathing room for ourselves. Steve wasn’t considered to be in extreme critical condition any more. He was now in...
by Kenna | Jan 9, 2014 | The Making of Milagro Man: A Story of Miracles and Love |
Chapter Fifteen: Three West By June fourth, Steve had been in the ICU for a month. His mental confusion was beginning to clear enough that he could have small conversations with us. His throat was still very sore and weak, so he still whispered, but at least he was...
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