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Careflite and Surgery

The words I was hoping to hear - You have a bad case of the flu, we're going to push some IV rehydration and keep you here for observation and run some tests.  The words that I actual heard: Your brain is bleeding, we've called Careflite?  WTF??? It couldn't just be the flu?  I remember telling BFF that it was ok to pull the plug if something happened and I wasn't ever going to be me.  I remember us both being in tears.  I remember being terrified and only be regretful that I hadn't made it to see either Sydney Harbour or the Northern Lights in person but that overall I'd had a good and wonderful life.  I remember Mama Cheryl being on the phone and telling me that the doctors at Presby Dallas were great and all was going to be OK and that I just had to calm down and know that I was in good hands... there was something so comforting in having that -- even if part of me was thinking, she is lying thru her teeth.. but mostly since she do...