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elegy for the living David Huddle Teresa, who's eighty-six now and in her thirty-third day at the hospital, has been in and out of the icu and her mind. Never an easy person, Teresa's so weak now it takes two people to move her from bed to chair, though within minutes she begs to be helped back into bed. Profoundly physically weak, Teresa's power has grown immense--in Florida, Vermont, Wisconsin, California, Texas, Teresa's brother, sister, daughters, granddaughters, sons-in-law, sister-in-law, old, old friends, all of us dream, talk, write, think mostly about Teresa. This morning shaving I remembered lashing out at Teresa to stop treating me like her yard boy, then was treated to remorse over words I spoke thirty years ago. Now Doctors have dictated whole books of medical orders for Teresa, nurses have devoted hundreds of hours of care to her, have administered Teresa drugs enough to murder ten rhinoceroses or end a third world epidemic, a machine has breathed for her the five days Teresa couldn't pull breath into her chest, they've shocked her heart back to its proper beat, they've lifted several thousand spoonfuls of food to Teresa's lips, they've given Teresa clean sheets two
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Oct 29, 2010
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