How I Got Over My Fear of Hospitals

Jacqueline Dooley
Nov 3 · 8 min read

On a warm August morning in 2012, five years before my daughter died, Ana and I walked into the ER of our small community hospital. On that balmy summer day, I was convinced that Ana’s appendix was about to burst.

We’d only had to wait about forty minutes before Ana was triaged and we were led to a curtain-enclosed room where they did an ultrasound of her abdomen. The cold gel made Ana giggle. They…

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Jacqueline Dooley

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Occasional poet, Essayist, Blogger. Author of Doorways to Arkomo, Doorways Home, & Spiritwood. Content Specialist & Google Ads geek by day. #binders

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