After My Accident My Son Said I Was in the Way and Left Me at the Hospital Until Five Days Later Everything Changed

at all. Just white noise and the copper taste of blood and the sensation of being nowhere in particular, which I now understand is what the space between one life and another feels like.

I came back to voices and hands and the pressure of someone cutting my seatbelt. A paramedic’s face swam into focus above me, calm and deliberate, the way people look continue reading …