My Husband Was In A Coma For Six Years—Then I Noticed Something Was Changing

between a hospital room and a shrine—medical bed, monitoring equipment, IV stand, the mechanical hum of machines that breathed for him when his body forgot to breathe for itself. I hired nurses for daytime care. I handled the nights myself, sleeping in the guest room across the hall with the monitor receiver on my nightstand, waking to every beep and continue reading …