damn the expense i told them , go for it , and so as the pratt and whitney engines wound up , to push the rest of the aircraft to its maximum permitted airspeed , flat out in other words , preparations were being made for two patients to be offloaded at jfk , and as i lay there , all but totally ignored , i called maria over and had her make arrangements for caroline and cindy to be flown over and accommodated close to davids hospital .