Wed. Oct. 31st – Halloween
My Halloween present to the B+ Nation… a picture of Andrew and Ali on Halloween 1994. (You might not be able to see it, but Andrew is sporting Elvis’ long sideburns.)
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Watching patients being moved from one NYC hospital to another during the hurricane reminded me just how fragile life is. I’ll never forget the 10-15 times that we had to wheel Andrew down to the OR from his room in the PICU. Several of those times, Andrew was on a ventilator, an electrically-powered breathing machine. We didn’t have a battery-powered substitute device, so every time Andrew was taken off of the ventilator for one of these interminably long walks, a nurse would have to stand along side of the bed and squeeze a rubber ball to push air into my son’s lungs to keep him alive. If she stopped the rhythmic squeezing of that $.99 piece of rubber and tubing, my son would die.
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Live Like Andrew
Ali & Andrew’s Dad