Seventeen days to the outside world but inside the walls days and nights do not exist
Three emergency surgeries for twisted bowel and bleeding and infection will go the report to family and friends but inside the walls it is Medicine 3 Death 0.
On the outside thank you to everyone who heeds the call to roll up your sleeve and give blood but inside the walls blood was spread through tubes and veins six times to ward off the angel of death.
It is good to have her home, good to be alive and good to live in the twenty first century in a land of medical marvels.