For those of you who don't know me, this is Bennett, Lindsay's boyfriend. My recent experience last night with Walt was a very good one. After not seeing him in 11 days, I finally made it up to see him after he had been moved to St. Mary's.
What a difference.
The last time I had seen him he was in the ICU barely opening his eyes, so my perspective is skewed slightly, but when I saw him yesterday, he knew who I was. After I had been with him for about 2 hours, he turned to me and looked me right in the eyes and asked me about how if I was "corporate". Knowing that Lindsay has told him this semester about my job search for after graduation, I followed up by asking him if he wanted to know if I had a job yet. To this he nodded his head in a definite fashion. I told him that I had not taken a position yet.
If this was the whole conversation, I would have been very pleased that he remembered that much. Instead, he followed up by asking "What about the talks?". I figured he meant the interviews I have been on recently (I started interviewing in February, so he knew about this before his accident) so I asked him if he meant interviews. Again, he nodded excitedly and looked at me waiting for an answer. I hold him that even though I had gone on interviews, the positions had not been offered yet so I didn't know anything. To this he looked at me and made a face implying some sort of understanding or approval and turned back to Lindsay.
While this may sound like a stretch, I really felt like he was actively interested in what I was saying and understood. More than that, he had the attention span to ask and listen.
This was an up-time, but a good one for me to see.
As we were preparing to leave, Walt noticed Lindsay putting her coat on and said "Ready", as he wanted to come with us. He proceeded to continue to say that he knew it was time to go, and that he wanted to leave, so it was really hard for us to leave while he was still awake.
The hardest thing must have been for Lindsay to hear Walt say "Lindsay" as we walked out. He obviously is ready to go home...
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2 comments:
Wow! Outstanding! Thanks for sharing, Bennett. That was a very "up" up-time. Here's to more and more up-times like that one! Go, Walt, Go! (And Lindsey, tell your boyfriend to get a job while you get your MBA, law degree and medical degree all at once!)
Brian & Nan Corry, still checking in from Florida
Bennett,
Just kidding! Good luck with your interviews and hope you have a choice of good jobs to pick from.
Brian Corry
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