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FDNY Wife: 'I Have Him Back'

Feb. 23, 2005

The doctors make the decisions on the treatment, but in the next few days, the Stolowskis have to make a giant decision on their own.

Eugene Stolowski was transferred from Cornell Medical Center yesterday as wife Brigid (near right) gets a hug from Jeanette Meyran, widow of firefighter Curtis Meyran.

The doctors make the decisions on the treatment, but in the next few days, the Stolowskis have to make a giant decision on their own.

"Gene's tracheotomy tube will be removed from his throat in a couple of days and that's when he'll be able to talk, and that's when we'll decide," Brigid Stolowski was telling me.

Decide what?

"Very important. The names of our twin girls which will be born about April," Brigid said with a smile on her pretty face which hasn't seen much reason to smile lately.

However, while firefighter Eugene Stolowski