The Night is for Stillness

(AKA Adventures in Panic Attacks and Ambulance Rides)

The room was spinning.

I shook from head to toe, freezing underneath every blanket on our bed.
My body went rigid as every nerve ending seemed to fire at once.
It felt like someone had rammed a sock down my throat and I couldn’t find air to fill my lungs. But my mind couldn’t discern if it needed to inhale or exhale so I just gasped for whatever breath I …