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

one. The beeping began almost immediately, and the spacing between beats was wrong. Too wide. Too slow. The specific interval of a body that is prioritizing what it can and letting go of the rest.

Pressure dropping. Someone called it out from across the room.

Brenda’s voice, sharper: we need imaging. Another voice: she’s AMA. Brenda again, with the specific continue reading …