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

is no longer reliably online.

You are not done.

Not a feeling. A fact. The kind the body can generate by itself when it has been built to do so.

I could not see. But I could hear. The monitor. Brenda somewhere near. The specific quality of sound in a room where people are moving with urgency.

Beep. Pause. Beep. Longer pause.

Hypovolemic shock. Blood loss.continue reading …