Mark Bourne
This morning at 8 AM I received a phone call from e_bourne who was in Portland asking me to go over to Harborview Medical Center. She said that markbourne was there and wasn't doing well. She was getting on a plane back to Seattle, but she didn't want him to be alone. I arrived at the hospital 25 minutes later. A social worker informed me then that Mark was gone.
The social worker told me the following: This morning at 6 AM, markbourne called 911 reporting that he was having a "cardiac event." When the medics arrived, Mark was slumped over in a chair. They performed CPR on site for about an hour, and continued compressions in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Because of his age (that he was a relatively young man), they continued CPR at the hospital for another hour, but he never came back.
I stayed at the hospital by myself for I don't know how long, and was eventually joined by ironymaiden, melkahb, davidlevine, and kateyule. varina8 picked Elizabeth up from the airport and brought her to the hospital. We stayed there all together, saying goodbye to Mark and managing issues until there was nothing left to do. We went and got some lunch, then split up to attend to the business of life, but we'll be coming together again later today.
Elizabeth, predictably, is shattered. Our circle here is, predictably, numb but functioning because we have to. She's here at my place, along with David and Kate, resting until her son arrives from San Francisco, and then we'll head back to her house. No decisions have been made as yet with regard to funeral arrangements. I'll post information as it becomes available.
The social worker told me the following: This morning at 6 AM, markbourne called 911 reporting that he was having a "cardiac event." When the medics arrived, Mark was slumped over in a chair. They performed CPR on site for about an hour, and continued compressions in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Because of his age (that he was a relatively young man), they continued CPR at the hospital for another hour, but he never came back.
I stayed at the hospital by myself for I don't know how long, and was eventually joined by ironymaiden, melkahb, davidlevine, and kateyule. varina8 picked Elizabeth up from the airport and brought her to the hospital. We stayed there all together, saying goodbye to Mark and managing issues until there was nothing left to do. We went and got some lunch, then split up to attend to the business of life, but we'll be coming together again later today.
Elizabeth, predictably, is shattered. Our circle here is, predictably, numb but functioning because we have to. She's here at my place, along with David and Kate, resting until her son arrives from San Francisco, and then we'll head back to her house. No decisions have been made as yet with regard to funeral arrangements. I'll post information as it becomes available.