Stepping off the train from Nice, she looked like she had just stepped out of a salon, instead of getting off of a five and a half hour train ride fro...m the south of France. Her hair, worn tight against her head, was perfect, not a strand out of place, showing off her round face. Her makeup was impeccable, lipstick and cheekbones by the book. You had to be intimate with her to see the depth of powder and concealer that covered the dark circles under her eyes and fine wrinkles in the corners of. You were stabbed in the back, which caused you to almost bleed out before you arrived in the emergency room. You also received multiple lacerations to your body. You have two broken ribs, which we taped up and is why your chest feels tight.”“And,” the Doctor continues. There’s more? “You have blood in your urine, which we hope is not due to internal damage. If it doesn’t clear up in a couple more days, we will need to go in and have a look around. We will take you out of ICU tomorrow. It will. Earlier, she had told me she needed some help with Social Studies. In this particular case, she was having trouble remembering some names and dates.I was tempted to tell Nancy that the reason she was having trouble was that nobody really ought to care, and names and dates were mostly irrelevant. What was important were the concepts of why things happened and the general time periods in which they happened, the flow of history. I was tempted, but I didn't.I remembered the math incident.My. Last night she seemed so...into it, and this morning, she makes it sound like one big mistake. "Well enough about that, why don't you come over here and eat breakfast while I get ready. We still have 5 or 6 miles to go before we get to the campsite." She handed me a plate of bacon and eggs and went back to the tent to change. I still was confused and full of turmoil on the inside and frankly, I wasn't that hungry. I poked at the food idly and thought of the events that had occurred the night.