{"id":1667,"date":"2026-08-15T21:51:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T20:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cydonis.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2026-08-15T21:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T20:51:59","slug":"eleven-hours-styx-in-tartarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cydonis.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/08\/15\/eleven-hours-styx-in-tartarus\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleven hours styx (in Tartarus)."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other day I crawled from my living room to my bathroom to answer a call of nature. I remember washing my hands on my knees afterwards &#8211; that was the moment I understood something had gone seriously wrong. My body, <strong>already worn down by a Long COVID flare<\/strong> that has followed me since 2022, had stopped being negotiable with me. I crawled back to the living room and called an ambulance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>I recognised, with a strange kind of clarity, that I was in danger.<br>The ambulance took about fifty minutes to arrive. I lay on the floor and picked up a magazine article about soy sauce &#8211; something small and ordinary to hold onto while everything else felt enormous. I thought about what might happen if I passed out before help came: that paramedics might have to break my door down to reach me. I pictured it more than once. I accepted it as a possible outcome. That&#8217;s an odd kind of peace to make, alone on a floor, but I made it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>When the ambulance arrived, I made it to the door myself, with great difficulty. Opening it brought an enormous wave of relief &#8211; followed almost immediately by trepidation, when the crew mentioned how busy the hospital was that day.<br>In the ambulance, flat on my back, I felt every bump in the road land directly in my joints. And somewhere in the middle of that pain, the EMT and I ended up singing &#8220;Mad World&#8221; together. Neither of us quite started it &#8211; we both did, at the same time. It remains one of the strangest and most human moments of the whole ordeal: two strangers, meeting in a song, while one of them was in genuine crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>At the hospital, a nurse commented on my Star Trek: The Next Generation t-shirt on the way in. Small kindness, register kept intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Then the wait began. Eleven hours, from ambulance arrival to actually seeing a doctor. A waiting room that was extremely hot and extremely busy, with chairs that seemed engineered to be as uncomfortable as possible for people who were, definitionally, all unwell. I tried desperately to reach my sleeping sister by phone. Not being able to get through to her was, honestly, existentially horrific &#8211; a specific kind of alone that goes beyond simply being alone in a room. It&#8217;s being unreachable to the one person who could reach you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>She saw my voicemail notifications about an hour after I arrived. When she got to the hospital, it felt like being rescued by Supergirl.<br>At one point in the waiting room, an Irish man who was clearly in the grip of a severe mental health crisis &#8211; fixated on death, with an intense, thousand-yard stare &#8211; began harassing my sister and me. It went on until hospital security and nursing staff stepped in to manage the situation. 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