Next, I googled symptoms of a heart attack.
- Shortness of breath-check.
- Pressure in the chest-check.
- Dizziness, lightheaded-check.
- Overwhelming feelings of ...
Whew! It's a gratitude attack!
As I wrote Pure Grit, carefully sifting through details of the nurses' work in jungle field hospitals, their life burrowed underground while bombs pounded Corregidor, their days of captivity turning into weeks, months and years-I became haunted by the fear that I would not do these women justice.