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May 20, 2006 I was relieved to leave the hospital. The doctors were confident in my progress and assured me the metal still lodged in my body wouldn’t shift or cause further harm. I had to keep a bandage over my right eye. It was uncomfortable, but I could live with it. What scared me…
May 17 – May 19, 2006 Morning didn’t arrive in a sunrise. It arrived in a sliver of light from the hallway—thin but insistent, like a blade cutting through the night’s remains. When the nurses opened the door with their bright “Good morning!” the glow followed them into the room as if the world itself…
May 17th 2006 2 a.m. The ceiling faded to black as my mind clawed backward, through blood-soaked clothes and flashing lights, through the sound of gunshots and the silence that followed. The room around me was cold and too bright in places, dim in others. That strange hospital half-light that makes you feel both watched…