Tag: hospital
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How scared they were
The thing I remember is the doctor’s face above me.The alarms were going off. My heart had been racing with fever for several hours, and my blood pressure was dropping, and I looked up at him and said, I feel weird. Which is such a small, stupid, insufficient thing to say when your body is…
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The Doorway
The chair. The beeps. My whole body tense, every time, for a year.That’s what comes back first. Not the medicine, not the diagnosis, but the chair I sat in and the sound of the machines and the way my body braced itself the moment I walked in, before anything had even started.I went alone. Every…
