March 20, 2020

Right now is a complicated time for the healthcare system. Hospitals are understaffed, undersupplied, and operating under special orders that make caring for patients possibly more difficult than it was before. As pandemic rages in the United States, causing turmoil and confusion, many people have chosen to avoid going to the doctor altogether, but sometimes

March 21, 2020

Myron woke with crippling pain racking his entire abdomen and panted for breath. He lay in the darkness desperate for the stiffness and agony to subside. When it didn’t he reached for the chair by his bed, and pulled himself to his feet, determined to walk it off. As Myron shuffled into the front room

March 22, 2020

The next morning Myron was still in pain.  He was pleased that the nurses loaded him on the traveling gurney again instead of trying to have him sit up and get in a wheel chair. He thought they were moving him to the CAT scan.  Instead he was taken to an operating room where a

March 23, 2020

Myron found himself on his back with his arms by his sides. Nothing hurt. There was no sound, no movement, nothing. He tried to check the clock on the wall, but his eyes couldn’t quite make it out and he didn’t dare move lest he wrench himself from this one moment of peace. Maybe fifteen

March 26, 2020

After feeling like he had made it back to the land of the living for sure, Myron spent a few days in a haze just hanging on and hoping for relief. Eating hurt due to the equipment that was hooked inside his mouth, so he ate only a few bites, though he was later to

March 27, 2020

Myron lay half dreaming around midnight or one in the morning. With his eyes closed he felt four pairs of hands running up and down his body and it seemed like his right side was uncovered. “I don’t think I’ve died and gone to heaven,” he thought as he blearily opened his eyes. He was

March 29, 2020

After a few days with nothing to do but lay in a bed and think while puss drained from his lungs, Myron perused his own memories and enjoyed a few funny recollections from his own life. He thought back to a hunting trip in a snowy valley. He was out hunting as a young boy

April 1, 2020

April 1st rolled around and Myron was hoping someone would come tell him it was just a joke and he was free to go home. The tubes still draining pus from his lungs told him his stay wasn’t over yet. By this point Myron had witnessed the routine of the nurses enough to have it

April 4, 2020

The twelfth day of Myron’s stay rolled around with no flare or flavor. It was just another day spent laying on his back as the hospital buzzed with life around him. He reflected on his wild ride from the first night being admitted till now and realized he had seen procedures and medical devices he