Awake

Yes, I will watch, thank you (genuinely!) for asking.

I’ve been awake for a few of the surgeries I’ve had over the course of my lifetime. I was notably and uncomfortably alert during my son’s c-section, for example, and for the chemo-port placement and removal that occurred within six months of each other last year. But throughout all of those operations, privacy drapes kept my own intimacy at bay. Blue pl…