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I lay awake and kept telling myself to get up when car wheels squealed to an abrupt halt. I bolted from my bed as I heard people screaming, \u201cCall an ambulance.\u201d Stumbling to the phone, I dialed the emergency number. The operator told me help was on the way.<\/p>\n

As I made my way downstairs, it occurred to me that I hadn\u2019t heard the bus go by, the one my husband Chris took each morning to his office in the city.<\/p>\n

Chris would be the first one to run in and call an ambulance<\/em>, I thought. The bus stop was right on the corner, one house from ours.<\/p>\n

As my thoughts raced, so did my heart. I went to my front door. My now panicked voice pierced the warm air and brilliant sunlight of a perfect June day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it a man?\u201d I yelled to the people surrounding a body lying on the side of the road. Without waiting for an answer, \u201cDoes he have a mustache?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, yes,\u201d a serious face turned toward me.<\/p>\n

I ran out to the street. A man lay in a fetal position. I couldn\u2019t see his face, but I recognized his clothes.<\/p>\n

\u201cChris!\u201d I screamed and raced toward him. I cradled him in my arms. Blood ran from his ears and his eyes were closed. I cried. \u201cI\u2019m here. Hold on, honey. You\u2019re going to be okay. Hold on. I need you.\u201d<\/p>\n

I have no idea how long I held him, but I looked up to see an ambulance and EMTs. One of them gently asked me to move away and I did.<\/p>\n

Chris\u2019s eyes rolled as if he fought for consciousness.<\/p>\n

I left him with the EMTs and raced to my neighbor\u2019s house. I asked them to watch my children. When I returned, Chris lay on a gurney and they were lifting him into the ambulance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to get in. I\u2019m his wife\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSorry, ma\u2019am, but you can\u2019t. The situation is too critical.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although he didn\u2019t say so, it seemed obvious to me that they didn\u2019t know if Chris would make it to the hospital alive, and they didn\u2019t need to try to calm a hysterical wife inside the ambulance.<\/p>\n

They rushed off to the nearest state trauma hospital. I followed behind inside a separate emergency vehicle.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, God, no. Please, God, no.\u201d How could this be happening? We were a happy family with three girls, ages two and almost four, and my fourteen-year-old stepdaughter. Chris had a good job that he liked, and I was thrilled to be able to stay home raising our children. My life had seemed so good and normal.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, God, I\u2019ll do anything. Please let my husband be okay.\u201d With my hands shaking, I cried as I raced toward the hospital. It took nearly a half hour, and I continued to cry out, \u201cPlease let him live.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the emergency room entrance, several attendants rushed to the aid of the EMTs to get my husband inside the hospital as quickly as possible. I learned later that just as the ambulance pulled in, Chris lost consciousness.<\/p>\n

The next several minutes were filled with a flurry of hospital personnel asking me to fill in paperwork. I signed legal waivers so that no one would be held responsible for the outcome of the necessary brain surgery, not even the doctors. They laid out everything that could go wrong, but no one advised or encouraged me.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s just get through this next step,\u201d the attending physician said when I begged him to give me hope. \u201cWe\u2019re going to operate to relieve the pressure on your husband\u2019s brain.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then what?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll let you know when he\u2019s in recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

No matter how many times I asked (and in my anxiety it was often), the answers were the same: \u201cNo, we don\u2019t know what his condition is now.\u201d \u201cYes, it\u2019s true that he might not survive.\u201d<\/p>\n

I could respond only with a nod and sit quietly and pray. The word had gotten out and our family and friends gathered in the private waiting room. We cried, prayed, and offered words of encouragement to each other.<\/p>\n

The morning passed slowly. A doctor or nurse occasionally came into the waiting room. The most information I received was from one nurse, who said, \u201cHe\u2019s doing all right. The surgery is progressing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still no promises. I stopped asking, thankful to know that so far Chris was alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour husband is out of surgery,\u201d a nurse told us. That was the first piece of good news. Chris had survived the surgery. That was all she could tell us.<\/p>\n

A doctor stopped in to tell me Chris was in critical but stable condition. He had survived the surgery, but the next few days would tell whether he would live.<\/p>\n

A nurse finally led me to the ICU for a five-minute visit. Before I went inside she said, \u201cYou\u2019re going to see a lot of bandages.\u201d She must have seen the fear in my eyes because she spoke slowly and with a kindness in her voice. \u201cYour husband is in an induced coma to keep him still in the aftermath of the trauma and surgery. Don\u2019t be afraid to talk to him. He can probably hear you.\u201d<\/p>\n

I entered the sterile room, and my husband was unrecognizable because of the swelling, bruised eyes shut tight, and the mummy-like bandages wrapped around his head.<\/p>\n

\u201cHi, honey. It\u2019s me, Elise.\u201d<\/p>\n

I touched Chris with trepidation. I didn\u2019t want to disturb his battered body.<\/p>\n

The monitors beeped. The multiple intravenous lines ran from various bags and bottles that apparently dripped life back into my husband\u2019s body by way of the arteries near his heart.<\/p>\n

I was able to make the five-minute visits several times. When evening came, the doctor advised all of us to go home. They didn\u2019t want us to wear ourselves out. I understood their words, but I didn\u2019t want to go so far away. I felt I needed to be close to the hospital.<\/p>\n

I stayed with my sister, who lived about half the distance we did from the hospital. I slept for a few hours only because deep exhaustion took hold of my mind and body. I called the nurse in the ICU within seconds of waking. Chris had made it through the night. I sighed in relief.<\/p>\n

Chris was stable, the nurse told me. When I arrived there, he was still in a coma and looked monstrous. They moved him to a private room and I sat at his bedside throughout the day. Chris fidgeted, his legs shifting from side to side. The nurse assured me this was not significant. \u201cIt\u2019s likely involuntary,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

I drank Diet Coke and moved food around on a plate in the hospital cafeteria. Back at the room, I greeted immediate family as Chris\u2019 mother, several brothers, and my sisters arrived. Death was still possible, so all of us knew this could be our last visit with Chris.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love you,\u201d I said many, many times. Despite my own uncertainty, I added, \u201cYou\u2019re going to be okay.\u201d<\/p>\n

I told him what happened, so that when he came out of the coma, the knowledge of his accident would already be planted in his mind.<\/p>\n

As the day turned into night, I felt I needed to get home to my girls, yet I was afraid to leave Chris\u2014afraid that he might die in the night. I couldn\u2019t do anything for him, but I still felt I needed to be with him as much as possible.<\/p>\n

But I had to care for our children. I arrived home to hugs and kisses and one freaked-out teenager. We sat at our dining room table as I ate a little and told the girls that Daddy was away for a short while. I don\u2019t recall what I said, but I was thankful that at least two of them were too young to really understand. I felt numb, but strangely at peace.<\/p>\n

That night, I fell into bed right after my call to the ICU. Fear greeted me as I closed my eyes, anticipating haunting images, scary flashbacks of my husband, whose bandages made him appear like the walking dead from a horror movie.<\/p>\n

Instead, a sense of calm and stillness flowed over my body. Images of my husband were vivid. I was wide awake and yet I could see Chris lying in his bed. The monitors, the bandages, and the IV lines made up part of the picture, but behind Chris was a large figure with a tall, squarish body.<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t see the face, but I knew <\/em>it was an angel from God. He stood there and then he wrapped his arms across Chris\u2019s chest and hands as if to show me he was protecting Chris. Chris appeared to be at rest, tranquil, even comfortable.<\/p>\n

Every night and often during the day, that image flooded my mind for several weeks. Daily I received uncanny peace from the being whose message to me was as if he were saying, \u201cI\u2019m watching over Chris. He\u2019s in my hands and he\u2019s going to be okay.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Chris finally awoke, he was confused and disoriented, didn\u2019t know who I was at first, couldn\u2019t walk or talk sensibly, couldn\u2019t feed himself, and lived in a rehabilitation facility for six weeks.<\/p>\n

I had an absolute certainty that he would recover. I had what I believed was blessed assurance. And so we pressed on, the figure continuing to appear in my thoughts until my husband returned to our home.<\/p>\n

The road to recovery was a long one marked by profound pain yet great triumph.<\/p>\n

But the peace, hope, and that tall figure were there until I took Chris home. After that the figure disappeared. He had finished his mission and brought deep peace to a troubled wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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