Robert Dowling
Robert Dowling
bit couple maybe
But it's going to be up to him. I'm just speculating now ... but I think at least a couple of weeks, maybe a little bit longer,
hope lives months
Our hope is that he lives months or years,
point surgery time
If someone had said at two weeks' time after surgery you would be at this point -- 'What do you think about that?' -- we would have said 'Fine, we'll take it,'
breathe effort happy
He's just happy to be here with us and happy to be able to breathe without any effort and get up and so forth,
aware conference involved limited message nurses surgeons survival video views
When we first had him he was very aware of his limited survival of his own mortality, and I think every day that he has he views as a blessing, ... We had a video conference with some of the other surgeons and nurses that are involved in the project, and his one message to them was 'Life is wonderful.'