what a powerful and moving expression of the issues, the emotions, and your navigation of the decision you faced.
Thank you. But to keep things real, this event is also the source of some ongoing guilt. When I look at it dispassionately, I know I did the right thing. But when the emotions kick in, I feel like I signed my wife’s death warrant.
I also wonder if I could have done more by getting her to the hospital sooner. We did wait over a day after the fall before getting to the hospital. She fell a lot in her last months and had a number of minor bumps and scrapes that were still a bit painful. At first I thought this was just another one of those falls. I had no idea she had actually broken a bone. It’s another of those “what if” points that haunts me from time to time - usually keeping me from getting to sleep at night.
—Peter