They Cut Me Off In Med School—Until They Saw My Name On The ER Badge

know yet what would happen with my family. Whether there would be tentative coffees in neutral cafés, awkward attempts at rebuilding, or whether this night would stand alone as a strange, intense epilogue to a chapter long closed.

What I did know, as the sun climbed higher and the shadows of the hospital shrank, was that my sense of self no longer hung continue reading …