The biggest, most important part of the body is the part that hurts.’
Mom put her hand on my wrist and fell back asleep. Even though I was pretty high on morphine or whatever, I couldn’t sleep.
I could hear beeping in the rooms next to mine, and it wasn’t particularly dark,
and well-meaning strangers kept showing up to pull blood out of my body and/or check my blood pressure,
and most of all, I knew: I knew that C. diff was invading my body, that it was floating in the air.
On my phone, I paged through patients’ stories of how they went into the hospital for a gallbladder surgery or a kidney stone,
and they’d come out destroyed. The thing about C. diff is that it’s inside of everyone.
We all have it, lurking there; it’s just that sometimes it grows out of control and takes over and begins attacking your insides.
Sometimes it just happens. Sometimes it happens because you ingest someone else’s C. diff,
which is slightly different from your own, and it starts mixing with yours, and boom.
I felt these little jolts through my arms and legs as my brain whirred through thoughts, trying to figure out how to make this okay.
My IV line beeping. Couldn’t even say when I last changed the Band-Aid on my finger.
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