Rishi Keshe Hirway

And I think there was something about the way that he was speaking to his doctor where the doctor said like, what happened?

Has anything happened to my dad?

So, oh yeah, I fell out of my bed the other day.

And he hadn't told anybody.

He'd fallen and he'd hit his head.

And the doctor, thank God, was like, okay, call your daughter and have her take you to the emergency room right now.

And it turned out he had had like a subdural hematoma.

He had a pretty bad injury.

And...

So I flew out when he was in the hospital and the injury was blood pooling around his brain and specifically around the language center of his brain.

By the time I got there, he was mostly not conscious.

And when he was conscious, he couldn't speak.

And then this other crazy thing happened where while they were waiting in the ER, my sister and my dad both got...

covid because this was this was 2022 and uh yeah that was still happening frequently so he was by himself he was like quarantined in this wing of the hospital and i would go in and see him and i'd have to be all like masked up you know i wanted i didn't want him to be by himself but we also couldn't speak to each other because he just wasn't speaking he would sort of just make some sounds and that week that i was there it was also the week of thanksgiving it was also his birth his birthday was thanksgiving that year

So it just felt incredibly lonely.

I felt so lonely for him.

Everything about it just felt really lonely.

And a few weeks later, when he finally came home from the hospital, he was well enough to go home, but he definitely was not recovered yet.

You know, they had to operate.

And he was going to have to go through a lot of physical therapy, speech therapy, all this stuff.