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Felix Silverstone is a national leader in geriatrics and Bella Silverstone’s husband. Gawande meets Felix when he is 87 years old. Felix and Bella live in a retirement home, and Felix takes care of Bella as she becomes blind and frail. However, when she falls one day and breaks both legs, they are forced to move to a nursing home unit in their residence. Seeing how the staff treats Bella like a patient rather than a person, he has the staff move them back to their home. This becomes crucial for Felix and Bella, because four days after her casts come off, she passes away. He is glad that he was able to restore some control and comfort in the final weeks of Bella’s life.
Felix Silverstone Quotes in Being Mortal
The Being Mortal quotes below are all either spoken by Felix Silverstone or refer to Felix Silverstone. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3
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Their apartment was only a floor away. But somehow that made all the difference. Exactly why can be hard to pinpoint. Felix still ended up hiring an around-the-clock staff of nurses and aides. And the remaining six weeks until the casts could come off were physically exhausting for him. Yet he was relieved. He and Bella felt more control over her life. She was in her own place, in her own bed, with him beside her. And that mattered tremendously to him. Because four days after the casts came off, four days after she’d begun walking again, she died.
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Felix Silverstone Quotes in Being Mortal
The Being Mortal quotes below are all either spoken by Felix Silverstone or refer to Felix Silverstone. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 3
Quotes
Their apartment was only a floor away. But somehow that made all the difference. Exactly why can be hard to pinpoint. Felix still ended up hiring an around-the-clock staff of nurses and aides. And the remaining six weeks until the casts could come off were physically exhausting for him. Yet he was relieved. He and Bella felt more control over her life. She was in her own place, in her own bed, with him beside her. And that mattered tremendously to him. Because four days after the casts came off, four days after she’d begun walking again, she died.
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