Gordon Flett

Somehow I had a weird interaction that actually had put me in liver failure for almost three weeks, being hooked up to IV.

And when they took me off the IV or they replaced that with something else, then I started to get better to the point I was able, after three full weeks in the hospital, being able to go home.

So on the very last day, um, I'm there at night and a nurse comes in wearing a late night with David Letterman t-shirt and she goes, you don't know me, but I know you and I know what you've been through.

And she says, your file is like three feet thick with all the tests that have been run on you.

And you had a very close call.

She goes, so I'm just here.

I know you're medically okay now and you're putting back the weight and you're restoring some color.

But I'm just here to make sure that you're okay in a mental health sense, that you're okay because it's quite a trauma you went through and some dark thoughts.

So she sat with me for three hours.

Wow.

Two in the morning to five in the morning.

Wow.

And we talked about everything, life, the big picture, her brother with David Letterman's show, because that's where she got the T-shirt.

And I thought, this is the essence, you know, what an ideal world it would be if medical people had the time and the resources to be able to sit there and say, I'm now giving patient care in terms of the person.

You know, I wanted to hug her at the time because I just thought, how does somebody get me that in tune with what somebody needed at just that time?

And also the fear of knowing that this could happen again and trying to dispel some of that.

So, you know, thanked her profusely at the time.

And maybe she's still out there and she'll hear this segment.

They decided that they would live in infamy by shooting at the school.

And this idea comes from work by Kruglansky.