"The strong, ferocious wind just made the chill worse, and as it blew around me, electric bursts of pain shot through my body."

"What if...the doctors couldn't find anything wrong? What if I was over-exaggerating the pain, weakness, and weird sensations?"

"Fatigue had started to set in...and now my eyes showed it as I struggled to keep them open."

"I wondered if there was anything [the doctor] could do to to make the pain disappear and my arms work again. I wondered if I was going to get any worse than I already was. If so, I wondered if he could fix that, too."