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An hour or two had passed, and a gentleman came on the scene and asked if he could speak with me. He had
addressed himself as a psychologist. He was concerned about what the doctors told him about the conversation and

my refusal to leave the room during Joyselyn’s procedure. He asked me if I fully understood their concerns about my
well-being. He wanted me to repeat the conversation I had with the doctors.
So, I proceeded in part to say, “If she needed every ounce of my blood to live, she needs my kidney; I have two, Liver if

it fits, need a Lung? That’s okay; if it is a heart, she’s already aware it belongs to her. Take what you must”.
His reply was almost any and or all those things might kill you. I replied, “You think!? If my Joyselyn died, that would kill

me”. He wanted me to seek help. He then started to explain what Codependency meant. At that point, I interrupted his
interpretation and asked if that was not, in part, the meaning behind wedding vows? When did it become a mental
illness to be willing to lay down your life for someone else? Soldiers always do it for the guy with no name beside them.

Our Lord did it for us all. So, how much more for the ones you love? He just looked at me, gave me his card, wished me
luck, and hoped my wife would recover, and walked away. I should have given him the Chaplin’s card.

Still a little out of it, but Joyselyn always asked if I thought our cat Preiss would be okay. I tried to assure her, but she
was having none of it. She wanted me to go home and check on her. That was Saturday, about 3:00 pm. We live about

forty miles from the hospital; I got home at 4:30 pm that same day. Of course, Preiss was fine, showing that she had
missed us. Before leaving for the hospital, I had left a small space open in the sliding glass door and about four days of

food out for her.

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