Haruka Nanase
It's a few hours after last night's walk and I wake up, in the middle of the night, to a stinging pain in my chest. It feels like my ribs are piercing through my lungs.
The air feels dry. It moves down the tube, but feels like it stops halfway.
I force a cough.
When that doesn't work I try leaning forward, using Kumiko technique for breathing. It doesn't work. The warm pain only gets more painful as it moves from my chest through my entire body.
I start forcing coughs, wheezing in between every one of them.
My lungs are getting torn apart while my heart races up to an inhuman heartbeat. I want it to stop, but no matter what I do, the pain continues to linger in my chest.
I clench my arms around my chest.
A shriek escapes from my mouth and now I can't stop screaming.
My throat hurts. The tube feels like it's going to tear up the skin around it while I tear away the speaking valve and throw it onto the ground.
My voice falls away and I feel the dry air passing through it. But it's not enough air.
Suddenly, I get really cold throughout my entire body. It feels like the warm blood has stopped running through my veins.
I close my mouth, focused breathing through the tracheotomy tube. But somehow the dry air forces me into another of those painful coughing fits.
High-pitched squeaks leave my mouth as I cough. My body feels numb as I fall from my bed onto the ground.
The last thing I hear is a loud thump, followed by someone yelling my name. Right after my vision goes black.
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