Meghan Harpole said she thought of her patients and worried: 'I may not make it. I may be on a ventilator. I may not be able to see my son for weeks.”
What he didn’t tell her was that he was worried she might die. And that if she was dying, he wasn’t sure someone would bring him to see her.They hugged and kissed goodbye, and as soon as Meghan shut the front door, she sobbed.She called Jackie to let her know. They had a plan if Meghan was put on a ventilator. People would sign up to sit in the driveway so Gentry could see them from the front door — every day until she got home.
"But you’re on the phone, talking. Or you’re looking at each other through FaceTime. And you’re just numb. You don’t know what to think or do. You’re helpless.” Nurses swarmed her room. They inserted an IV, ordered a chest X-ray and a breathing treatment and put her on oxygen. Meghan’s levels rose.But he worried what the X-ray might show.
"You’ve got to believe we are loved, that you’re going to be taken care of and the people here who love me are going to take care of me. We’re going to get through this.”“When people come in like this, they stay,” Meghan heard the doctor say. “Things can go bad.”
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