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PRACTICE TALES
Extra-Sensory Perception
Sarah and Peter were a happily married couple living in the suburbs. As far as Sarah
was concerned, they did not have a care in the world. Money was a bit tight, but they
were young and could steadily work their way up into a better position. She had a job
in the city 15 km. away, while he worked from his car as a salesman.
On the morning in question, Sarah left for work by train as usual, but shortly after
arriving at work she had this uneasy feeling that something was wrong with Peter.
She phoned home, and there was no answer, and none should have been expected, as
by now he would have been out on his rounds.
She still had this deep feeling that something was wrong, and despite the
inconvenience, she left work, caught the train, walked the kilometre from the station
to her home, and then found why she had been feeling so anxious all morning.
I first heard about the situation when my receptionist put through a panic stricken
call from Sarah. She had found Peter in the car, in the garage, the engine was running
and a vacuum cleaner hose led from the exhaust to a crack in the car rear window.
The car was otherwise sealed. She had called an ambulance, and stopped the car
engine. What else should she do?
It was only a few hundred metres from the surgery to her home and I made it there
as fast as possible. Sarah had not been strong enough to drag Peter out of the car,
but had opened all the windows.
Together we dragged him onto the front lawn, and I gave him oxygen from the
small cylinder I had grabbed as I ran from the surgery. He was bright pink, a
characteristic of patients with carbon monoxide poisoning, but still breathing, and
soon came around, just as the ambulance arrived.
Still confused, he was unable to explain why he had taken such drastic action, and
was soon on his way to hospital.
His life had been saved by an incomprehensible intuition possessed by his wife, and
because the hose from the exhaust to the car had melted at the point where it had
been forced over the exhaust pipe, and had detached. Even so, in a relatively short
time, the fumes filling the closed garage would have completed his intended suicide.
On a follow up visit a couple of days later, he still could not explain his actions,
except to say that he felt he was in a dead end job and his wife was succeeding more
than he was. He was very contrite, and vowed never to try such a thing again,
particularly as he now knew that his wife would soon be aware of any danger he was
in, and rapidly intervene!
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