After I Refused To Pay Tuition, A Family Dispute Turned Violent—and Went On Record

to the paperback-sized rectangle of ceiling above me and the paramedic’s face hovering in and out of my line of sight as he checked IV lines, adjusted the collar, called in the report.

“Female, forty-two, head trauma, assault with blunt object,” he said into his radio. “GCS fourteen, small subdural suspected, multiple scalp lacerations, heavy bleeding continue reading …