They Made Me Wait in the ER While Prioritizing a Wedding Until Everything Started to Unravel

she could be bleeding internally.”

“She’s not,” my mother said. “She exaggerates.”

My fingers had gone numb. I registered this with the part of my mind trained to monitor vital signs the way other people monitor traffic. Numbness in the extremities meant the body was prioritizing core function. That was not a good sign.

“Sign the refusal, then,” Brenda continue reading …