“No,” I said. “I’m just really scared and having a lot of invasives.”
“Did you consume hand sanitizer yesterday?” “No.”
“I’m not here to judge you, Aza. But I can only help if you’re being honest.”
“I am being honest. I haven’t.” For one thing, they’d taken the wall-mounted sanitizer station out of my room.
“Have you thought about it?” “Yeah.”
“You don’t have to be afraid of that thought. Thought is not action.”
“I can’t stop thinking about getting C. diff. I just want to be sure that I’m not...”
“Drinking hand sanitizer won’t help.” “But what will help?”
“Time. Treatment. Taking your meds.”
“I feel like a noose is tightening around me and I want out,
but struggling only cinches the knot. The spiral just keeps tightening, you know?”
She looked me dead in the eye. I thought she might cry or something, the way she was looking at me.
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