How It Felt to Come Back to Life
Coming back from near-death was a gracious endeavor, but it was also deeply heartbreaking
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6 min readMay 28, 2019
“Thank God you’re alive,” my mother said to me with tears in her eyes. I lay on a hospital gurney, hooked up to machines that whirred and beeped rhythmically, the acoustic proof that life hadn’t given up on me yet.
