DR.LOVE
Vol. I May 2014 13
Find out about two cases, Familiar Love and Eros Love.
Familiar Love
For 15 years Anna was a solitary figure sitting at the far end of our waiting room for her annual checkups, having shaved a half-hour off her workday so she could hustle over before we locked our doors. Then she became very ill, and suddenly she was engulfed in a crowd. It turns out that she had one of the great families of all time, a big, cheerfully intertwined conglomeration of blood, step, foster and common-law attachments. From the moment she was hospitalized they never left her side. Or, more precisely, they never left her by herself — it turns out there is actually bit of a difference between the two.
One of them would sleep in Anna’s hospital room at night and another would come by in the morning. At lunchtime more would wander in, and by the middle of the afternoon it was standing room only in Anna’s half of the semiprivate accommodations on 10A. When she was moved to the I.C.U. the whole mass of them decamped into the waiting room down the hall, a tide of Anna-focused humanity surging in and out with the day. Somebody, usually one of her daughters, was deputized to sit by the bed, waiting outside the cubicle when the nurses had work to do, then coming right back in.
By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D. APRIL 14, 2014, 1:39 PM, NEW YORK TIMES
Eros Love
Four years ago, Larry Ragsdale planned to propose to his high school sweetheart, Kelcie Yeoman, during a vacation with her family to Disneyland. But just a week before the trip, their lives were turned upside down. While driving home from showing Kelcie's sister, McKenzie, the engagement ring he'd chosen, Larry's car was struck by a drunk driver, and he nearly lost his life. He was thrown into a coma, and for months, no one knew if he'd ever recover.
But Kelcie never gave up on him. She was by his side every day until, at long last, he awoke. They learned that the former football and track star was left partially paralyzed from the accident; he had a long road to recovery ahead of him, filled with countless surgeries and exhaustive physical therapy sessions. Determined to be with him every step of the way, Kelcie even got a job at the facility where he was recovering.
In August, three years after coming out of the coma, Larry proposed to Kelcie with the same ring he'd chosen before that fateful night. But with their bank accounts drained from the arduous recovery, the wedding of their dreams (in Disneyland) seemed completely out of reach - until McKenzie launched a fundraising campaign and reached their goal of $20,000 in just 11 days!
By Bridal Guide | Love + Sex – Tue, Feb 25, 2014 8:4c5 AM EST