Tag: paralysis

“I’m sorry,” I heard the doctor say from over me, “we did everything we could.” I felt him slip the shroud over my face, and I wanted to move, to protest, to scream to my family that I was alive, but I was trapped in my own body, paralyzed with fear and desperation.

You try to escape, but the fear has overwhelmed you.  Your poor brain, screaming at your body to act, to pull away, to run, to do anything, is helpless to defend you from your own fright.