Beyond wanting her husband to return to health, Desirée Kettler had one wish " to see something green.“Having a place to go, oh my gosh, what that means to a person staying in a hospital,” said Kettler, who was by her husband Dave’s side during his more than 260 days at Duke University Hospital.
For diversion there was the TV, the cafeteria and the fish tank on the 5th Floor, but it wasn’t enough, Kettler said. She couldn’t...