Rounding the foot of her bed that angelic mask seemed to 100 Years of Green Bay Packers 1919-2019 signatures tshirt, and I drew a sharp breath in despite myself. The left side of her face was purple and swollen where it had hit the pavement flying off the motorcycle; her scalp shaved, gashed and stapled where the neurosurgeons had tried to relieve the pressure on her brain. Buried somewhere in the midst of this devastation, her sunken left eye melted vacantly down a crumpled cheek.I thought of all the other patients I had left to see before I could go home for the evening, and I thought of how I really had no business being in her room at all. She was brain dead.