The ice cold medication shot up my arm and into my neck. The room was spinning. I rolled over and closed my eyes trying to make it stop. The pain in my back was still there. Was not quite as bad, but it made it really hard to move. The ER was busy. The monitors chirp next to me and in the distance like the drone of crickets on a summer evening. The head nurse called the staff together outside my door for morning meeting. "Don't forget to be kind today," she reminded them as if speaking to a class of kinderg ...