{"id":809,"date":"2013-03-29T21:36:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T02:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickspicscorner.com\/blog\/?p=809"},"modified":"2013-03-29T21:55:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T02:55:52","slug":"untaken-29-march-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/untaken-29-march-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Untaken – 29 March 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a relative in the hospital right now.\u00a0 He’s fighting an infection, the source of which the doctors can’t quite nail down.\u00a0 I just found out today that he has been in the hospital for the past 3 days.\u00a0 He was asleep when we got there, but his wife was there with him.\u00a0 My wife and I sat down on the couch next to the window while his wife sat in the chair next to his hospital bed.\u00a0 She had a hand to her face while she explained to us what he was going through.\u00a0 As a medical professional herself, she knows how to handle tough situations, but she had a look of genuine worry on her face, even though she tried to hide it.\u00a0 Her husband was breathing softly as the anti-nausea medicine worked its way through his system.\u00a0 The decisive moment came when she told us that she had to call 911 because he was too weak to get up and get into the car.\u00a0 She looked over at him with the love that can only come when you have shared your lives together for 26 years.\u00a0 I had my point and shoot camera, in its case, in my hand.\u00a0 I opened the case before the decisive moment.\u00a0 My instincts were shouting at me to raise the camera, but then they fell silent, which I took as a cue to hold.\u00a0 There was plenty of ambient light in the room as well.\u00a0 It was at the decisive moment that I realized why my instincts had fallen silent – the emotions she was feeling at that moment were hers alone.\u00a0 While I was free to empathize and share her worries, I had no right to steal them without her permission.\u00a0 I quickly cleared my mind and re-engaged in the conversation.<\/p>\n

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I have a relative in the hospital right now.\u00a0 He’s fighting an infection, the source of which the doctors can’t quite nail down.\u00a0 I just found out today that he has been in the hospital for the past 3 days.\u00a0 He was asleep when we got there, but his wife was there with him.\u00a0 My […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}