The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we voyage so far.
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we voyage so far.
My dad's going to be gone very soon.
They'll be pulling his respirator tomorrow evening.
He lost oxygen in an oxygen chamber during a breathing treatment, asked for help, and passed out.
While they were decompressing the chamber, he lost oxygen in his brain for at least five minutes, and had a major stroke in both sides of the brain, leaving nothing functioning but the brainstem.
He flatlined once, but they brought him back
He showeds no signs of higher function than brainstem level, so they're not going to keep him living off of a machine, if you know what I mean...
I guess it's not as traumatic to know in advance you'll be losing someone.
Perhaps I should just be thankful for that much.
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UPDATE as of 6/23
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The took him off of everything, and put him in an oxygen mask, and have him on some morphine.
Death wasn't instant like we'd thought it might be, and they said he might even last a whole week like this. e.e
As for right now, I'm at my brother's place in the same town the hospital's in...and I'll probably be here until tonight.
We don't know when it's going to happen, I suppose, but at the same time I just hope he's not in too much pain.
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Update, 6/29; 9:55pm.
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It's over...he's at peace now
The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us a little;
but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up
such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein,
that we shall either go mad from the revelation, or flee from the deadly light
into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up
such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein,
that we shall either go mad from the revelation, or flee from the deadly light
into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
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Simply put, from the bottom of my heart, I'm very sorry. I know can't understand what you're going through, and I won't pretend that I do. I know some people don't want sympathy in a time like this, and just as many do, so all I can do is offer it to you as it is.
My thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family and any and all who need it.
Take care, Vogue.