His Last Bow [An Excerpt from the diary of Dr. John E. Hall]
[Note: This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to
persons, living or dead is purely intentional and must not be reported].
How often has it been said: “The departure of a good friend
is like the departure of one’s soul. One cannot live without a friend!”
Ah! He was more than a friend to me. A mentor, chum, buddy
and peer, G. was a person like no other. The void that has been created by his
death is vaster, and perhaps of more serious significance than the ASD which
haply mars the life of so many flowers in the prime of youth.
My mind, full of grief, remembers the events as if they happened yesternight. Receiving an emergency pager from him, I rushed at once
in an ambulance, honking madly at the cars that blocked by way. Knew they not
that a person’s life was at stake, and I was supposed to be the savior?!
When I reached him, he was in a state of syncope, surrounded
by a pool of thrombosed blood. I checked his vital signs. It was clear that he
had lost much blood and was in a state of hypovolemia: the shock had led to a
dramatically low arterial pressure which I noted as I checked his pulse.
Rushing back to the ambulance, I took out my 3 lead ECG machine and checked his
rhythm strip: the results, I am afraid to say, did not present a favorable
prospect. He was suffering from a conduction block, which, exacerbated by an
occlusion of the coronaries, had led to ventricular fibrillation. I gave his a
360 DC cardioversion shock, but alas! In vain we toil when God’s will has been
proclaimed. He only got worse. I hastily inserted a CVP line via the subclavian
route, praying to God against any unseemingly malicious complications that might
arise, and infused 0.9% saline. He got better temporarily and I tried to
perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but after a few minutes he got worse
again. I watched, hopeless, as he lay there, in a state of refractory
irreversible shock, fresh blood still oozing out from his body. Conceiving an
idea, I tried to stop the bleeding, but a stir from him excited my attention, and
I rushed to hear as he mumbled something, the last words I would ever hear from him. All I got around to hearing was: “Tell
Hall to finish this one.”
Tears blinded my eyes, as I held the hand that was steadily
growing colder. What would my world be without the man around whom my life
revolved!
G. was not simply a person. He was a phenomenon, an
observatory of the processes that happen in us all the time and about which we
are blissfully unaware. It is true that in life he was thwarted by his peers,
but his final answer to them stands alone, like the glimmering lonely star that
so seldom adorns the dark abysmal night.
Words fail me, for my pen has shed now all its tears and
will write no more. G. will always be remembered as a candle that shines in the
dark and illumines the lonely author writing a compendium on Physiology for the generations
to come.
John E. Hall
April 27, 2003
[Disclaimer: The purpose of this piece is only to evoke
light humor and not to stultify the memory and respect of any living or
deceased person.]
Written by: Muhammad Mohsin Ali Dynamo
Was G. a man or a women because from the look of it I guess they were PRETTY CLOSE....... /S
ReplyDeleteIt was Nice Mohsin. (y) I think this sign doesn't work in here but you know what I mean.... :-)
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