Septic shock, stabilized.
Decompensates within hours. His wife
updated.
Decompensates further.
She arrives as fast as able; I tell her he will
not survive.
We hold hands across his body. He
passes.
As she cries, “I will never forget you,
thank you”
The fragility of life and the intimacies
we’re fortunate to be entrusted with
