"Yes, Dad, she's still breathing," Sheryl Winstead responded. When he went to sleep that night, he woke up after an hour, asking his daughter, "is Mama still breathing?" Please, stay with us." He said nothing in response. Seeing the devastated look on his face, and knowing his heart was weakening quickly from the dialysis, his daughter pleaded with him to hold on. "I don't know who I'm going to sit on the couch with and watch the news anymore," he added. "Just ask God to wake her up," he said to his children. It had all happened so fast.Ī male nurse rolled him in a wheelchair to her room, and the entire family watched, heartbroken, as he cried beside her bed, tapping her and saying, "wake up, Aileen." Neither could anyone else in the room - even the cardiologist was tearing up seeing Dolores in her state, having spent the previous day speaking with her. When the children broke the news of her aneurysm to Trent, he couldn't quite understand it. Medical staff initially placed her in a hospital room separate from Trent's, where they kept her connected to a ventilator. She had suffered a massive brain hemorrhage. She continued breathing as nurses rushed to try to revive her in the emergency room, but her brain activity was gone. This was not an unusual position for her to nap in, Sheryl Winstead said, so at first it wasn't concerning.īut when her daughter tried to wake her, shaking her shoulder, Dolores wouldn't wake up. that night, she sat down in a chair in her husband's hospital room, resting in a sitting position with her head slumped over. The couple's two children tried to limit the information they told their mother about his condition, but after a while, even Dolores knew his condition was worsening quickly.įor most of the first two days in the hospital with him, Dolores - a fairly healthy woman for her age - seemed to be feeling fine. He was admitted to the intensive care unit, and the dialysis began to weaken his heart. 6, it was clear his kidneys were failing, and he would need dialysis. As the emergency room medical staff treated him on Dec. But when nausea caused him to stopped eating for multiple days earlier this month, his daughter finally made him go to the hospital. Trent was the type of stalwart, Purple-Heart veteran who never liked going to the doctor. They were more and more in love every day." "They loved each other through the humdrum days. "It sounds so simple but it was so sweet," their daughter, Sheryl Winstead, said in an interview with The Washington Post. He called her "Mama," or by her middle name, Aileen, stealing kisses from her, and dancing with her at weddings.
news on the couch every night, and going to church together every Sunday. He worked at a Ford glass plant, and she worked making hymnals and literature for religious services.Īfter retirement, they spent endless quiet days together in their home, watching the 10 p.m.
They were polar opposites: Dolores, a reserved woman who loved to cook, and Trent, an outgoing golfer and avid fisherman. Dolores and Trent Winstead in their early years.
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