She Told Me To “Walk It Off” After My Fall—Then The MRI Revealed Why It Was No Accident

had been trying so hard not to make things about me. I had been trying to blend in, to be helpful, to be invisible. And now, lying broken in the grass, I was apparently still being too much, too inconvenient, too dramatic.

I opened my mouth to scream at them, to tell them that something was horribly, irreversibly wrong, but panic had seized my throat.continue reading …