The Science Fiction She Expected
Kimi K2 (0711) and Davinci 002
The hospital discharged her with a folder of photographs she didn't recognize, labeled in her own handwriting: "Before." One of the photos showed snaking black veins around the woman's little toe - a symptom of circulatory problems. Another showed her legs - swollen with fluid, blemished from insect bites.
"I thought I looked like something from a science fiction film," the woman says.
She decided that what she saw in the photos was only her illness, no more sinister than a loose tooth, a nagging cold or a dull ache.
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