Living Again

him there. It was snowing outside. The dirty New York snow that had once seen him so happy was now witnessing the worst mome

s the nurses and paramedics carried the

he paramedic who treated him

ulse and eyes with a flas

tubate immediately. he told the nurses. "Check the

or. — Nurse

he'd used had caused a far more serious overdose than the one before that a few months ago. Suddenly the heart mon

mediately stepped in to

ation. Tachycard

art monitor to show a straight

eady. — the doctor said —

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of the nurses cut his shirt so they could resu

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chest. Nurse 2 used the ambu

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have given up. He

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tient to come back — Stay with me. he said bef

ld try one more time and he would ha

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a miracle, the monitor sound returned to i

. - Nurse 2 s

spoke with relief — Give me 3

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