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If you're injured, don't underplay or overplay what's wrong with you (this can be hard).

When I was a teenager I took part in an disaster (massive car accident) drill for our town's emergency responders. I had been coached on what my injuries were supposed to be and a makeup artist gored me up. The fire dept used jaws of life to cut the door off of the car, then I was placed on a stretcher and an ambulance took me to the emergency room. While all this was going on there was an air evac, someone getting put in a body bag, and multiple other "victims" being attended to. Even though it was all a simulation, the shock of everything happening around me got my adrenaline going and I was panicking and hardly able to put words together when I was telling the nurse my symptoms. I imagine in a real situation it would be very hard to calmly and accurately explain my injuries.

How did it feel the first time you went outside again, first small interaction with a stranger, first genuine conversation?

That would have been really creepy! Did you get zipped up in a body bag too?