Mr. Bourne was getting exasperated as it was the third day the patient had been lying in a vegetative state . The only sign of life within him was the slow beating of his heart and breathing . He had not taken any food apart from the glucose drip that his wife was administering intravenously .
It was not helping that Mrs. Bourne had asked for a week's off without pay . With two children in college , the family's financial status was somehow wanting . Two years ago , he had resigned from the military due to a knee injury and was now depending on his online writing and his wife's little earnings . He had cause to worry about a full week's unpaid leave .
" Look here , honey ," Mr. Bourne said as they walked towards the patient's room after waking up from a short night's sleep that had been
