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

side to reach his back, changing his catheter bag, maintaining the dignity of a man who I believed had none to maintain because he wasn’t there to experience it.

He came back to the bedroom toweling his hair. He sat on the edge of the bed—on the far side, near the window, in the spot where I’d noticed the wrong wrinkles—and put on shoes.

Then he went continue reading …