Off The Deep EndChapter 31
It turns out that your body does strange things after a few weeks unconscious in bed. Orderlies had been heaving my body side to side a few times a day and jacking me up with pillows to avoid bedsores, but I had still ended up with swathes of light purple bruising on my back and thighs from where capillaries had burst under the weight of my blood pooling there during the first week. It also turns out that most people will lose ten percent of their muscle mass after two weeks in bed, which...