“Take a deep breath. Hold it.”

Noisy clicks and clacks, clunks and whirs are muffled only slightly by the earphones perched on my head. I count to myself – 1001, 1002, 1003 and onward until I finally hear, “Breathe normally.”

I lie buried within a giant magnet – a yearly occurrence as follow-up to surgery a few years ago. Each time they place me onto the table and hook me up to the IV I focus thankfully on the healing that took place in my body when the surgeon excised the cancer.

It’s a thankful woman who lies there holding her breath.

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This week’s 100 Word challenge from Velvet Verbosity is “WITHIN”