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A hospital is not the place you want to be if someone’s out to kill you.
In the first place, everyone and their dog wants to take your blood pressure or look at your body parts. And then they want to drug you senseless. The only really useful thing anyone did was to remove the tubes and wires so I could sneak into the shower—with the Phisohex. My skin needed moisturizing, not disinfecting, but did they care? I dabbed most of the water from my person with a minuscule towel and then shuffled back to my bed, my wet hair slapping against my back and turning the hospital gown completely transparent. I didn't even have a TV. I guess I shouldn't have been in such a hurry to get unhooked from the heart monitor, at least I could have watched my heart beat.
Dripping hair and wet clothes were t
