What was in your hands when you arrived at the Emergency Department?
Your belongings that you wanted to make sure got to your hospital room
3 days later?
Your chest as we discover fluid around your heart
In the ICU?
Your husband’s wrist as your heart speeds up past normal levels
In pre-op?
Your neck as we go to surgery to take out the thyroid that got inflamed
from the medications to slow down your heart
On the floors?
Your Cincinnati Bengals Jersey, finally relieved to be out of the ICU and
watching football
A few nights later?
Your mouth, covering up a cough from the pneumonia that you caught in
the hospital
Another trip to the ICU
The next Bengals game?
The bed rail, as the wounds you’ve developed over the last month are
almost too painful to bear
Yet another week in the hospital?
My hand
It’s been a long month.
