There is a stability that is added to each step when using a cane. That is the slight edge that is needed due to the unpredictability of the wrong step. Just one slip can send you into a seemingly endless series of tests, doctors, nurses, hospital rooms, rehab facilities and bad meals.
But that’s not the worst of it. Let’s back up for a minute, back to that hospital room. It’s not private. There is a second bed in there and the sounds coming from that bed are enough to keep you awake for years. Enough to give you nightmares you haven’t had since childhood.
And because there are two beds, that means there are double the number of nurses coming and going all night, and strange visitors showing up to visit whatever it is in that other bed making all those eerie sounds. You know they are not awake or aware of their surroundings, and yet their television runs non-stop.
You point your remote
at their TV and press mute, but nothing happens. You keep pressing but without success.
Eventually another nurse makes her
rounds. She asks if you have any
pain. You slowly lift your hand to show
her your thumb, which now hurts from pressing the mute. She doesn’t understand, but compliments you
on eating all of your Jell-O.
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