It is 6 a.m. Light from above abducts me from the best dream I’ve had since coming to hospital: I dreamt I was going home. A nurse says good morning to me in a voice dripping with insincerity and routine, and I want to reach through the haze of the rude awakening I feel around [...]
Okay, I’m in hospital, it’s around 9 p.m., and I’m trying to go to sleep, which I do and am loving it when the light goes on and a CNA growls, “Vitals.” What that means is she will check my blood pressure, my temperature and my oxygen level. Innocuous stuff, but just enough to fully [...]
Boy, I was sick. I mean ill, laid up, under-the-weather, puking, flat-on-my-back sick. Now, I am sure not too many people want to hear or read about another’s illness, and I don’t expect anyone to read much passed the first sentence. However, I do this for me. I can sort out feelings I had, or [...]
