“It’s probably just gas,” my mom said casually — then locked the car and walked into the electronics store anyway. I didn’t wake up again until two days later, surrounded by machines in the ICU … and by then, a single message I had sent had already started unraveling everything I thought I knew about my life.

It’s probably just gas,” my mom said casually — then locked the car and walked into the electronics store anyway. I didn’t wake up again […]