I did not know what had happened when I first woke up. My mouth was dry, my limbs were heavy, and my head hurt so bad.
When I opened my eyes, the ceiling above me was white and flat and wrong. There was a soft beeping somewhere to my left.
“Elena? Can you hear me?”
A woman I didn’t recognize leaned over me. A nurse…
In a flash, everything came back to me.
I did not know what had happened when I first woke up.
I remembered cooking dinner when the worst pain I’d ever experienced in my life tore through my skull.