Streams of Babel
“I'D BEEN TAKEN to the hospital around four o'clock, on the very gurney that I knew had carried Aleese away one week ago. I was surrounded by Scott's same squad, same ambulance.
The problem started with such a small accident that I couldn't believe I ended up in an ambulance. I was coming out of the bathroom for the fourth time in three hours when Bob Dobbins banged into me and stepped hard on my foot.
The pain subsided quickly, though Scott put ice on it and kept looking at it. The top of my ar...ch swelled like a football and turned purple. Yet every time he told me to wiggle my toes, I could do so without any pain.
This flu had been bothering him, too, but if he had any symptoms besides the bright cheeks and zombielike conversation, he kept them to himself. But after half an hour, he punched a number in his cell phone and said, "Can you just come get her? This is over my head." He finished the conversation in the bedroom but forgot to shut the door, and I heard "possible blood clot" and "dangerous" and "turn into some weird stroke." So, five minutes later, I was seated on a stretcher.MoreLess
The problem started with such a small accident that I couldn't believe I ended up in an ambulance. I was coming out of the bathroom for the fourth time in three hours when Bob Dobbins banged into me and stepped hard on my foot.
The pain subsided quickly, though Scott put ice on it and kept looking at it. The top of my ar...ch swelled like a football and turned purple. Yet every time he told me to wiggle my toes, I could do so without any pain.
This flu had been bothering him, too, but if he had any symptoms besides the bright cheeks and zombielike conversation, he kept them to himself. But after half an hour, he punched a number in his cell phone and said, "Can you just come get her? This is over my head." He finished the conversation in the bedroom but forgot to shut the door, and I heard "possible blood clot" and "dangerous" and "turn into some weird stroke." So, five minutes later, I was seated on a stretcher.MoreLess
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