My Parents Left Me in the ICU and Flew to Cancun Until I Saw the Same Name on the Visitor Log Every Night

that announces itself physically when the body has run out of other ways to get your attention. Hypoxic briefly before they stabilized me. Lucky, she said, and I nodded because nodding was the right response, even though lucky felt like the wrong word for waking up alone in an ICU while my family photographed beaches.

They had returned my phone on the continue reading …