Midnight
For the longest time, I felt like I was floating in a sea of darkness. After a while, I could hear people talking around me, but couldn't tell what they were saying. It all sounded so far away from me. And after straining my ears to try to hear them, I slipped back into the darkness.
I did this a few times before I finally started to wake up. As I finally started to come to, I could hear the beeping of the machines that were on me. And I could smell the Lysol antiseptic smell that is the hospital smell. And that smell is what brought me the rest of the way awake.
When my eyes finally opened, I was in a room with other people, and there was a nurse standing beside my bed, checking my vitals. "Welcome back. You're in recovery, and your surgery went well. We'll be moving you to
