Graceful Exit by Gustavo Ferrer

Author:Gustavo Ferrer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sounds True

The Breaking Point

Recently, I was treating a patient with multiple medical problems. His wife, Liz, had a very pleasant nature. She was among the nicest people I’d ever met, in fact. Over the course of three weeks, her husband was transferred from one hospital to another, from rehab and back. He was eventually brought back to my hospital. By the time he got to our hospital, Liz was frustrated and angry. She called her family in for the first time, all of them. She was barking orders, admonishing them for not showing up earlier, and blaming them for how troubled she felt. When a family member tried to calm her down and ask what she needed, she produced a series of venomous responses, none of which directly answered the question.

I was shocked to see this—she had just brought these innocent family members into the picture—yet I understood. I knew her drastic change in behavior was because she hadn’t been sleeping, and the transfers were unexpected and stressful. She had already spent three weeks at her husband’s bedside.

Liz is a successful business woman. She runs about twenty retail stores in just as many major airports. In her business life, she knows how to take charge. Yet in her personal life, she hadn’t been able to gauge when to call in the troops for help. She waited too long. When she finally rallied them, she was so mean and spiteful that no one really wanted to help.

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