Open and Exposed

I was in the Intensive Care Burn Unit, and the Head Surgeon had agreed to fight to save me…every part of me.  So the challenge began.  They knew that treating me as a burn patient was the best chance for survival, but now the actual work had to begin.  And being their area of specialty, they knew that this was going to be a very painful and very traumatic process.  The plan was to remove 60% of my body’s muscle and tissue mass through a debridement process.  All in one operation.  This would leave me open and exposed…one female teenage body-sized open wound.  If it was not from where tissue was removed, it was from donor sights within the remaining 40% that would be used to repair my own body.  In order to prepare for this daunting process, the decision was made to put me in a medically induced coma.