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...they are helped, to the extent a broken vessel can be helped. Later Del Castilho will send "Chaplain Michael" a note thanking him; Horace will agree, "Yessir, to me he seemed young, but I guess we all got to start somewhere." Tonight the new widower says simply, "She's gone to a much better place." Then the family, Michael Baker at their side, enters Marilyn Yopp's room, where Marshburn lays her head against her mother's face and cries, and cries, and cries...
...cartoons--when the beeper goes off. It is 2:55 a.m. Marilyn Yopp, a police detectives' secretary in Jacksonville, N.C., suffers from thymoma, a rare cancer. She was admitted to the oncology floor recently with an even rarer symptom, a disfiguring full-body rash that, her sister Doris Del Castilho explains, "started as tiny flakes of skin and then got bigger and opened up like a flower." A few minutes ago, she asked Del Castilho to help her turn over in bed, when suddenly "her eyes rolled up. I heard them say, 'I don't get a heartbeat...
...Baker arrives, CPR is still going on; the code team has shoved a tube down Marilyn's throat to pump air into her lungs. Baker prays with Del Castilho as the doctors push epinephrine and atropine through an IV. Briefly, there seems hope of stabilization, and Yopp is wheeled to the medical ICU. But two hours later, after multiple IV infusions, resident Timm Dickfeld takes one last turn at CPR, punishing Yopp's chest almost savagely, then stops. "Call the code," says someone. "Call it." Dickfeld finally accedes. "Over," he says. He makes a chopping gesture. Yopp is dead...
...Father, be with us in this time of loss," says Baker, standing at the head of a cluttered table, his hands joined with those of Del Castilho, Yopp's husband Horace, the couple's daughter Lora Marshburn and son Trey. "Help us as a family to feel your presence near to us. Paul said God never places more on us than we can bear. Help us to be each other's strength, and to support each other during this time of hurting. Help us to know that...
...Last week he whiled away the balmy tropical evenings in the company of beautiful women at the Copacabana Palace, Le Bon Gourmet and other nightspots, spending upwards of $200 a night on food, drink and fun. One night he even dined at the home of Colonel Eugenic Castilho Freire, warden of Central Prison, where he had been an honored guest while the officials brought a predictably fruitless deportation case against...
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