imagesPádraig has a ‘bad’ side. When he is turned onto his right side, the ‘good’ lung is a bit compressed, the ‘bad’ lung is on top, and oxygen levels go down. It happened a couple of days ago and it happened today. Luckily, he got over it!

It was unreal to see and be with his three good friends who had staid with him (and with us) in Cape Cod Hospital. Until he left that night on a Learjet from Hyannis Airport, with a doctor, two nurses, two pilots, and Pat with his bone flap on her knees. They came to visit, but it was not a coincidence the three of them arrived here together at this time. We did not really talk much about the day we first met. We all recognised the beeps today and remembered them from the ICU in Cape Cod. Was hat die Zeit mit uns gemacht? I remember and will never forget when I walked down the corridor with Cian that night, when we were at the airport, drove with the car onto the tarmac, watched while they were trying to fit this tallest of all fellows into this smallest of all planes, it took hours, they taped his head protected by a helmet with duct tape onto the stretcher. Off to a Canadian airforce base, on to Iceland, back to Dublin. No one knew whether he was going to make it.

How will we cope with tomorrow? What if tomorrow never comes?

Was hat die Zeit mit uns gemacht?