Healing You in Silence

An hour after slipping on the wet stairs in her building, she is wheeled into the ER with something broken in her left side.

The surgeon who comes through the curtain is the same man she spent the night with two months ago, and he freezes the moment he sees her face.

Born mute, she cannot speak through the pain and has to write down everything the staff needs while she shakes and grips the rail with every breath.

He sets the chart aside, takes her hand, and tells her to squeeze when it hurts.

A nurse then reads from the clipboard that her test is positive and she is about seven weeks pregnant.