Tag: emergency airlift

• The Eye That Would Not Die

  

  Seventeen years ago, a vicious eye infection nearly cost me my sight and my life. What followed involved an airlift to Seattle, a terrifying MedJet flight, a drug-dealing hospital roommate, an overdose, an escaped prisoner asking about dragons, and a bill proving that terror, apparently, is very expensive.

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  January 6, 2026

  Humor & Essays, Survival & Recovery

  absurd true story, dark humor, emergency airlift, eye infection, hospital nightmare, medical trauma, orbital cellulitis, survival story