[Tobra]

Please don't smoke.

Just got done talking to the wife of a patient. They got married when she was 17. Her parents were both career Sacto PD. He was a hell raising street racer, and there some good spots back in the day. Her parents knew him professionally prior to young Patrick meeting his bride. When they met, è stato un colpo di fulmine, like when Michael sees Apollonia for the first time, only the bolt of lightning hit them both. I never saw the way they looked at each other change at all in 10 years. They way they looked at each other, if you saw your friend do it when you were in high school, you would tell him to cut it out and punch him in the arm. Being a mechanic and a hot rodder, naturally he smoked cigarettes. He quit a long time before I met him, but I tried to help him through the consequences, CABG, multiple angioplasties in his heart and legs, lower extremity bypass surgeries, amputations, in the end, he had one leg with a black half of a foot at the end, it was horrible the way that man suffered. Holding his bride's hand and talking to her about it was the worst thing I have ever had to do in my life. I would have rather jumped out the window than be there. We were on the 4th floor, but the wrong side of the building, not enough of drop for the fall to kill me. She will be coming in as a patient, that will be difficult. Man I gotta go walk the dogs.

Please, don't smoke.