A Long Standing Mess

I woke up crying. At first I barely noticed that my mom and older sister, Niki, were by the hospital bed. My mind was like a morning of thick fog, hard to breathe in and lost in the smog.

Finally, focusing on my mom I could see that she was asking me what’s wrong, while she wiped my tears with a tissue. I just shook my head.

Most people have never heard of this abnormal mass, or don’t know how to even spell it. In technical terms it is called a hemangioma. In simpler terms: a blood tumor.