Waking up in an Alternate Reality

This wasn’t the life I had dreamed of.

High school graduation for the author. Photo by Peggy Davis.

I woke up in the hospital, in the Neurological Intensive Care Unit.

I didn’t understand how or why I was in the hospital.

“You were in a car accident,” I was told.

That didn’t make sense to me. How could I be in a car accident that I don’t remember?