my broken shell.
When I awoke in the sterile hum of a trauma ICU, I was strapped to a morphine drip. I had survived three back-to-back surgeries to pin my femur and drain fluid from my bruised lungs. Through the cracked door of my room, I could hear the nurses gossiping at the station.
“It’s so tragic. Her poor husband is flying in from Seattle to arrange continue reading …