The nurse told me that this is my eighth time in the hospital this year.

After falling into the water, I was so weak that I spent all day curled up in bed, shivering with a fever.

Every time I got an antipyretic injection, it hurt terribly.

But I don't even have someone to complain to.

I don't know what Brian said to the doctors and nurses, but everyone seems to think that I am his wife.

It's disgusting.

The nurse was talking to me when Brian's call came in.

She put it on speaker for me and held it to my ear.

"Shir," Brian's voice was hoarse, "Eat well,...