Contary to popular belief, cell phones do not interfere with ICU monitoring equipment.
Gerry discovered this Saturday, after Debbie conducted her own subversive form of interrogation on the ICU nurses. By the time she was through, the nurses softened just enough so that Gerry could pull a curtain around his bed and make contact with the outside world.
He wished his daughter in Washington a happy birthday, and spoke to his son and daughter (who were visiting in Washington), as well. That was late Saturday morning. By about 9 p.m., he was bored enough to make another illicit phone call.
It brought some much-needed encouragement.
He's more alert than some other ICU patients, and knows he's in recovery. That makes the ICU walls - enclosing what has been his residence for the past five days - all the more suffocating.
Doctors have clamped the temporary shunt that has drained fluid from his brain, and they're waiting to see whether he'll need a permanent shunt.
More ICU secrets coming tomorrow. Stay tuned.
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