Snapshot · On Purpose with Jay Shetty
After Joe Biden was rushed to the hospital with a brain aneurysm in 1988, he stayed at Walter Reed for approximately seven months while Jill commuted nearly two hours after school to visit him.
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Walking down the hospital hallway, Jill saw a nurse sitting guard at a table and was told not to go in — the priest was inside giving last rites. She opened the door anyway and ordered the priest out. [1] — Dr. Jill Biden "Get out, get out. My husband is not dying. Get out." 18:35 There was no reasoning behind it beyond a fierce conviction: God would not take Joe from children who had already lost their mother. The priest left. Joe survived surgery and spent approximately seven months at Walter Reed. Jill commuted almost two hours after teaching each day to be at his bedside. The surgeon, Dr. George, warned her and the boys that Joe might not make it; Joe told Beau and Hunter that if he died, he wanted them to take care of their mother. He lived. And when he recovered, he ran for president again.
Joe Biden's 1987 presidential campaign ended when he was accused of plagiarizing a passage from British politician Neil Kinnock, but dropping out likely saved his life when he suffered a brain aneurysm months later.
When Jill Biden arrived at Joe's hospital room in 1988 and found a priest delivering last rites, she burst in and ordered him out, declaring her husband was not dying. Her conviction came from a single certainty: God would not take Joe from children who had already lost their mother once.
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