They put something in my IV that made me feel like I was pissing my pants,
then ran me through the cylinder of the CT machine, and eventually returned me to the shivering nerves of my mother.
I couldn’t shake the crack in her voice when she said she couldn’t lose me, too.
I felt her nerves as she paced around the room, texting with my aunt and uncle in Texas,
pressing long breaths through pursed lips, dabbing at her eye makeup with a tissue.
Daisy didn’t say much, for once. “It’s okay if you want to go home,” I said to her at one point.
Do you want me to go home?she asked. “Up to you,” I said. “Seriously.”
“I’ll stay,” she answered, and sat quietly, her eyes glancing from me to my mom and back again.
NINETEEN
“GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS,” announced a woman in navy-blue scrubs upon entering the room.
“Bad news, you have a lacerated liver. Good news, it’s a mild laceration.
We’ll watch you closely for a couple days, so we can make sure your bleeding doesn’t increase,
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