After an hour and a half of waiting, the doctor comes out and asks a few questions. We are allowed to go into see mum. She looks pale and is on oxygen but is talking coherently.
The nurses tell me they are taking her up to HDU high dependency unit after she goes for her x-ray. We go and wait upstairs in HDU, We are told there will be a long wait as they need to put in a central line and get her sorted in the HDU, then the orthopaedic surgeon will come up and see her. Three to four hours pass and a doctor comes out with a nurse. They say it is and infection, septicaemia, and that the next 48 hours are crucial.
We are allowed to see her. We go in and she is covered in wires and machines. She has a mask on that helps force the air into her lungs. She is now confused again. She says to me she wants us to take her to the toilet. She says she wants to use the bedpan, so the nurses get it for her. I come back in and stroke her arm. I say it is important that she gets some rest and I will be back in a few hours to see her. That is the last ever conversation I have with my mother.
The doctor comes in to us again and says if she becomes more exhausted they will have to ventilate her. I get a call at 7 am saying they have ventilated her and have put her on the dialysis machine.
I go back to the hospital. I called all family and friends the previous night, but call main members of family to come down today. Family members visit throughout the day. I pop home for an hour to get some tea and washed. Her partner still stays there. I go back to hospital. All the family members arrive and we all go in and sit with mum. She looks like she has aged years in hours; she reminds me of my Nan.
We are all sat around her bed. At her blood pressure starts to fall slowly. All of her other vitals start to go down slowly as well. This happens several times. I feel this is going to be a long process. I feel numb and angry with myself that I could not do anything and also why this has happened. Contributions are deductible for computing income estate taxes. Sepsis Alliance tax ID Share your Story. Get Resources. Donate Button — Arrow. Irene Bentley Tribute. Send us Your Story.
Andrew Hernandez. Vincenzo C. Amelia H. Blanca Duprey Torres. Janice Dean. Tommy Bosko. Koral-Ann Triplett. Lore A. Toni Shave. Isabelle R. It really has no roof, not even a folding top. The lack of a roof gave Bentley designers a sort of freedom they rarely get when having to figure out where to hide a folded top and put unsightly latching mechanisms. Therefore, no roof. Only a dozen Bacalars will be built. With so few being made, and at that sort of a price, the Bacalar is, essentially, a privately owned concept car.
Although, unlike most concept cars, it is road legal. No one could give an exact price for the Bacalar that I was driving because it was literally, priceless. It had been painted white for testing so any potential cracks or flaws in the body would show more easily, and had only recently been repainted a deep ocean green. The all-wheel-drive Bacalar has a turbocharged horsepower cylinder engine, but it is not intended to be a street-shredding high-performance sports car.
Both are owned by the Volkswagen Group. With its smooth ride, comfortable seats and ample trunk space, the Bacalar is designed to be the sort of car one might drive every day, even though one probably will not. Performance was not entirely left out of engineering considerations, of course. Dispensing with the roof and backseats also saved weight. Hannig told me about the car as he drove us out to a roadside overlook by the Pacific Ocean. Fortunately, while heavy clouds remained, the rain had stopped.
And, for good measure, he pressed the gas pedal hard a few times, eliciting brutal acceleration and a sonorous rumble from the huge engine. The wood trim comes from a tree that fell 5, years ago into a wetland and was preserved there in a process that also stained it nearly black.
Bentley left the color alone. Its water is famous for its shimmering color. The Bacalar has a three-sided rotating panel in the dashboard, a feature also available in other Bentley models, including the Continental GT. But at the press of a button, the panel can flip around to show three old-fashioned dials, including a compass.
Flip the panel again and it shows a digital display screen of the sort nearly every car has these days. There you can see a navigation map, select a song to play and do all the sorts of things drivers do with screens. About the only other interior piece the Bacalar shares with the Bentley Continental GT is a panel of switches near the gear selector.
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