To the editor:

To the people who helped my husband, Dr. J. Roger Sheridan, when he suffered acute respiratory arrest Friday morning, Nov. 21, 2008; the Good Samaritans who performed CPR and called the medics, Sgt. Russ Lindner and his colleague (sorry I didn’t get your name), the medics and all those who tried to save the life of our beloved husband and father, the people in the gray house on the west side of East Harbor Road who let me use their phone, got my car out of anti-theft mode and gave me some food to sustain me, a diabetic, on what proved to be the longest and most difficult drive of my life to Whidbey General Hospital, Dr. Bishai and the nurses and staff of our wonderful hospital ER trauma unit who worked so hard on my husband and comforted my daughter (our only remaining child, her brother having died in 2003 at age 37) and her husband, Lenita and Farley, you are my stalwarts, the staff and pilot of Airlift Northwest, I’ve never seen such a caring, efficient operation during my years of volunteerism, to the nurses (Lauri, Marilyn) of the CCU at Providence Hospital in Everett and to Drs. Price and Sutcliffe, by keeping in touch with me by telephone, you comforted me and kept me going.

Thanks to anyone I have missed mentioning and you know who you are: Dr. O’Neill, Janice and Mo and my helpful caring neighbors, especially our postal carrier, Tony Brookman, who got the mail through the snow as often as humanly possible.

Carol M. Sheridan

Langley