After having that first spasm in the hospital and not knowing when I would have another one or how bad it would be, I was scared. The scene of that first spasm was pretty severe and it was all a blur. Writhing in pain, nurses swarming around me, waiting for the nitroglycerin tablet to take effect, hoping someone would disconnect the infusion, wondering when it would end, trying to face the pain, people putting on the stickers and leads for an EKG, questions being shouted at me, the whole scene was extremely chaotic. And there were no assurances that this wouldn’t happen again at any given moment. I was on edge.
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2008.10.07
