Tag: illness
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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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New Friends, Harsh Realities
Most of what a scan is, is waiting. The PET/CT unit at Stanford was a trailer, and it had three parts. A room with the machine. A monitoring hub where the techs and nurses sat watching their screens. And a small sitting area, dim, with two medical chairs and IV poles and a single bathroom,…
