Holding Silvan by Monica Wesolowska

Author:Monica Wesolowska
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hawthorne Books
Published: 2012-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

NEEDING SOMETHING TO occupy his mind besides Silvan, David becomes good at guessing at the problems of babies around us. For example, one day there is a new baby. We can see him easily from Silvan’s room. He is a big baby. Must be a term baby. Already on artificial ventilation. And here comes the woman who did Silvan’s EEG, the one who was evasive. As she did with Silvan, she attaches electrodes all over the baby’s head and stares at her computer screen for twenty minutes. David overhears a nurse describe the EEG as “flat.” A very young woman shows up in a wheelchair then, looking dazed. Since the nurses are setting up a screen for privacy, we figure he’s about to die. It’s all happening very fast. We go on a break, and when we return the young mother is being wheeled away and her baby is gone.

I want to tell her that I empathize, but whatever I mumble comes out wrong, for she stares straight through me, stricken.

Her baby is dead whereas mine is still alive.

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