Waking Up in a Hospital Room: A Short Story

When I woke up, I sniffed the hard smell of disinfection at the hospital and entered the nostrils. In addition to my intense breathing and snoring frequently at the hospital, the room is quiet and it shows that I am still alive. I slowly opened my eyes and clung to weaken the blurry image in front of my eyes. I caught a glimpse of the desolate blue and white hospital bedroom. How long have I stayed here? I close my eyes and remember what happened. Then it all started me.

Until today, I had a memory crash: I stare at my blood arm and wake up at the hospital, rubbing a strange ointment that my wounded upper lip wipes with my tongue; tightly The cotton I felt was packed in my broken nose; I heard the screams of other injured people and sick kids who shared the room with me. I still remember the car that came back from the hospital still clearly - the sky without clouds is bright blue and the sun is bright. I was scared and it collapsed again. Sitting in the big, bulky convertible back seat, I asked my father to slow down the house. This is my first time that I felt all the fear of consumption.

I slept very well at the hospitality hotel bed and the workers sitting outside the previous nurse station did not speak. I woke up several times during the night, and my existence in the hospital remembered that I need to complete an unpleasant medical procedure in the coming months, and now I am 50 years old . Oh. After a while, we arrived at a 2,000 mile trip, then stopped and took some pictures to commemorate this milestone. A few miles later we went to Leola (population 457 people) with a route of about a mile or so, where we visited the grocery store and talked to a friendly woman working there. After discussing the status of Leola as the "capital of the world," we bought snacks and ate on the cold grass of the court building opposite the store and then returned to the grocery store. Rhubarb capital "World T-shirt

New Mexico, Day 48 from Bootheel to Canada: Ipswich, South Dakota, Ellendale, North Dakota