Sarah Gailey On Horror, Grief, and the Lies We Tell Ourselves to Escape Our Suffering

Summary

I remember thinking: I can’t bear this. I remember pressing my hand to my chest, pressing hard, making a fist and rubbing my knuckles against my breastbone in an echo of the sternal rub I learned in EMT school—a quick, brisk gesture meant to inflict immediate pain. A sternal rub is used to see if […]