Story - Hartwig Distler

Aneurysm Mother & Father
06.02.2008
Impressions of my mother (written by my mother)
I remember the day of the accident and, the many weeks after it. Thursday, the 11. August 2005 was for me a day like any other - only
afterwards I recognized that I had an unusual unrest in me. Normally I do not believe in such things. But it was something that frightened me
completely fundamentally. The following morning then the message of Hartwig's accident. My man and I were as agitated by the thunder. How
does it continue with Hartwig, what happens next? We knew from a similar case in the circle of acquaintances, which found a good end after
relatively short time. Of course we hoped naturally also for our case for a similar result. I wanted to travel do Berlin as fast as possible - they
said that life is not 100 percent in danger - but how knows that? I call myself as a believing christian and tried with prayers to take comfort.
Having arrived in Berlin, Annett and I made together with Maya a first visit to the hospital. My first impression was rather frightening. Many
machines there, Hartwig fixed and without consciousness.
The next 4 weeks we saw ourselves daily twice at the hospital, but no news. Hartwig before hat healthy and strong - now helplessly,
participateless and dependently. We were always full of fear, which will happen next when we visited him. We tried to get reactions by body
contact. Sometimes we believed to feel an easy handshake. By high fever, unknown reason, his situation got worse. Different treatments did
not bring the expected success. Only the leg break healed relatively good.
We went to Hartwig into the room, one remained alternating with the child in the vestibule. After some weeks in which we waited without
success for a reaction of Hartwig, we - Annett, Maya and I again we where waiting grievedly in the vestibule as Hartwig was driven in the
hospital bed by. We waited in all the weeks in vain for a reaction and were considerable depressed.
What the trip was for and where Hartwig become attentive to the child, we don't know - he showed suddenly a reaction. We were lucky
together with the care forces and surprised. A controversy between the doctors and the care forces inflamed between the two forces. Would it
be an advantage to take a child also into the treatment room? We were allowed to take Maya also in the treatment room - once! We took her to