Cherise Wyneken helps her husband come "Back From The Brink"
In Hope Whispers, Cherise Wyneken shares her inspiring and heart-wrenching story of her husband's near-death experience. A simple procedure became a life and death struggle with no one expecting him to pull through. Her short story was inspired by a poem she wrote about these events:
Something Holy
Two hour surgery, lasted six.
Two night stay – two months.
Complications snowballed
like dust mites without a ray of sun.
Multi-system organ failure.
No chance with surgery, but they’ll try.
Terror snatched me from my robin’s nest,
grabbed my throat with its beak,
and squeezed my breath away like water from a sponge.
Prayers flew up from many faiths
to the God they knew.
Doubt crept in behind and see-sawed in my echo chamber.
Next week – same scene.
No time to stop the gurney, grinding toward
OR, for me to give a good-bye kiss.
Tubes in his side for nourishment,
tubes in his throat for air,
tubes to his veins recycling blood.
We are together in this room –
a walled-in box, filled with monitors
and IV bags dripping blue solution.
We are together in this room,
yet we are far apart.
I cannot see inside your head.
I cannot hear your thoughts.
Your voice is trapped within.
I am here beside you – alone.
May crept into June.
July brought plans for a nursing home
readied with a respirator – possibly for life.
Refusing to give up, Nurse Debby
disconnects the oxygen, watches as he breathes.
Three weeks later, unplugged,
learning to use his legs,
able to swallow soup and applesauce,
I brought the car around for a man alive.
Cherise also authored a powerful novel of forgiveness entitled, "Freddie." It can be purchased through www.PublishAmerica.com or www.Amazon.com by following this link. http://tinyurl.com/yejobt7
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