One step closer to death was Joe Biden at the age of 45, when he was a senator from Delaware. He did not want to admit that he was in very bad shape, but he went so far as to be hospitalized and even read to by a priest, who was badly dismissed by his wife, Jill Biden.
His hitherto unknown health adventure is brought to light in a new biography about the "First Lady" of the United States, Jill Biden, due to be released next Tuesday.
Under the title "Jill: A Biography of the "First Lady," Associated Press journalism writers Jill Pace and Darlene Superville recount in the pages of the book that, in 1988, the then 45-year-old Biden often complained that his head was going to "crack." For the headaches that plagued him, there were times when he took up to ten pills a day."
Jill, however, wondered why her husband didn't want to admit his health problem and did absolutely nothing," the two authors explain. As People magazine reports, Biden continued to ignore his health problem by doing weight training. A few hours later, he felt a sharp sore throat.
The morning he woke up he felt his legs were weightless and his right side was numb. Not wanting to worry his wife, he told her that he had pulled a muscle and continued to work as if nothing was wrong. A few hours later, Baiden collapsed in a hotel room. The next day, he felt terribly weak and nauseous, but still insisted it was nothing.
Since Jill kept pushing him to go to the hospital, then-Senator Biden listened to her. There he underwent a series of tests while Mrs. Biden informed his children, who were completely unaware of their father's health.
But back in her husband's room, a nurse told her not to enter as a priest had been called in to read to the dying patient, she said. "What? He's not going to die," Jill Biden began to shout, and opening the door she asked the priest to come out in a heated tone.
"Get out. My husband is not going to die," she said, visibly upset.
She had, however, admitted in the past that she is generally a calm person and that the voice she gave the priest surprised even her.
The tests Biden had undergone showed an aneurysm and that he had to go in for surgery immediately, otherwise his life was in danger.
"You ruined Valentine's Day," Jill jokingly said to her husband as she was taken to another hospital to undergo the surgery.
Biden's relatives gathered at the hospital and began discussing how to handle the case. Jill reminded them that she is his wife, so the decisions are hers.
"He's my husband. I make the decisions," she told them. Moments later, Biden's mother defended her daughter-in-law: "She's right. It's her decision, not yours."
"In that moment," Jill said, "I really felt like I was a Biden making decisions that would affect all of us."
Source: Proto Thema
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