Chapter 17: Purple Mountain MajestyDear Bump,
Today, I thought I was going blind. Or having an aneurysm.
This afternoon, Split was closed and I sat at my computer in the office, after hours of work, when suddenly, a speckle of light appeared at the centre of my eye. Then it grew across my vision, until the whole room seemed to be going under water and the lights began to shimmer as though I’d been staring at the sun. Clutching the desk, my fingers turning white, I prayed, “Oh, God, please, not right now. Not like this.” I kept thinking how Nick wasn’t home. How far away he was and that he couldn’t, wouldn’t get over the guilt if something happened to me. I was sure a blood clot had lodged itself somewhere behind my optic nerve, and I had only a few minutes to live.
Finally, I found my v
