ENTRY 3- Breath of life

Uhuru drove back home thinking about Doctor Borman’s warning. “His right”, she said out loud. She knew that the more she held on to all the negative energy and heavy emotions surrounding her, the more her body would fail her. She needed to change and she needed to change fast. The idea of leaving her “life” seemed more appealing now.

Her thoughts drifted further and she remembered that the last time she left home was on her honeymoon. Maran, her husband, had spoiled her endlessly. He always promised that he would take her to all her favourite destinations around the world and thinking about him brought back the chest pains and she started breathing excessively fast.

I can’t do this without him, I just wouldn’t be able to cope, she thought. Her breathing became more and more rapid. She was hyperventilating.

This led to light-headiness and she started feeling weak. Without contemplation, she immediately pulled over, opened up the glove compartment and started frantically searching for the brown paper bags she kept in there.

She found one, opened it wide and started breathing in it. Her breathing slowed down and she was once again in control.