“George wanted to know if I was okay. He was the first of any of them to talk to me. I fingered the cheap plastic band that circled my wrist, and then wriggled my toes, which were kept warm in hospital-issue socks with gripped undersides. I eyed an overweight woman in her mid-30s. She'd watched me as I slept, and now she was following me around, refusing to let me out of her sight.
I know how I go”
