(4 of 5) Then a darkness fell...
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"There's the doctor. Would he have good news?"
"I have to tell you something not so pleasant. We have been operating on you husband and your father all night. He is now being transferred to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). He's just not doing so well. We have closed his aorta. After much effort, we succeeded. Just now when we wanted to go to the ICU with him, he had cardiac arrhythmias. We went back to the OR and found that he had a clot in his coronary artery. We doped that, and now it's just a matter of seeing how he continues to do."
"How much chance of success does he have?" we ask.
The doctor continued: "We give him a maximum of 10 percent. And if he comes out it remains to be seen how his brain is doing. Because as you well know, we weren't able to do a brain scan, but went straight into surgery because it was too acute."
"Say what? That means he's 9 times more likely to die. What does that mean? How is that supposed to work?" I think to myself.
