Mixed message
Leland Parrott reports:
A man was brought in to the hospital intensive care ward, put in a bed, tubes coming out everywhere. A week later another man was admitted, in a similar condition. Both lay there, machines pinging and tubes poking.
It was a couple more weeks before one of them had the strength to raise his hand, point to himself and say, “Scottish.”
The other signaled he had heard, raised his own hand and said, “Irish.”