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“Pain!” she screeched<\/a>. \u00a0Her voice the chalk on the board. I glued myself to the bed and hoped to disappear. \u00a0Not happening.<\/p>\n

I caught a glimpse of her between the curtain that they strung up to divide the room and protect our privacy. \u00a0She was pretty, a very similar shade of brown to mine, medium warm sassy brown skin, a little plump, juicy looking. \u00a0Her phone blurted, “Hey Gorgeous, you got a message!” Every few minutes… she had the t.v. on to a surgery show, close-up of the insides of people, being operated upon. \u00a0She returned calls, explaining how she’d landed in the hospital, again.<\/p>\n

“The Pain!” Her wail deepened. \u00a0I felt pain with her. \u00a0I felt my own pain and I felt embarrassed for her feeling such acute pain. \u00a0Pain is private. Isn’t it? \u00a0Her Doctor offered her more morphine. \u00a0“No.” She said. \u00a0“If I do too much I get diarrhea for three days, that happened to me last time I was in the hospital.”<\/p>\n

Just then, I fixed my gaze out on the bleak industrial moonscape. \u00a0A squat box of concrete with shutter windows and turbines, the lobby of a hotel\u00a0on the moon, an interplanetary loading station… a boy on a skate board pierces my moon fantasy, just as he is overtaken by a sudden jogging blond, with dark sunglasses. \u00a0Surely, a spy. \u00a0Exactly then, the sun flowers arrive. \u00a0Sunflowers. \u00a0Blazing yellow. \u00a0Zinging bright. \u00a0How appropriate! \u00a0How Van Gogh! Inspired and \u00a0SO KIND! \u00a0FLOWERS! \u00a0And the smile the pretty girl who delivered the flowers gave me, as she zipped into the room and put them down on the windowsill blocking the view of the moon, is something special, too… this moment sparkles.<\/p>\n

Here I am in the hospital, again. \u00a0How did it happen that a part of my story became about being really ill? \u00a0The idea seems foreign odd to me. \u00a0I’m so healthy! \u00a0I’m upbeat. \u00a0I’m optimistic. \u00a0I’m not the cancer type. \u00a0Yet, I’m deep in treatment. \u00a0Sometimes, I feel like I’m facing a tsunami with nothing but a rubber ducky for protection. \u00a0This is scary and yeah, it hurts. \u00a0Ouch! \u00a0I’m tired of being here. \u00a0This stupid machine. \u00a0Beeping. \u00a0I have to take it with me to the bathroom, where they measure my urine.<\/p>\n

\"Sun<\/a>
Van Gogh Paid a Visit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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