Today's OneWord: Darkness

I woke up in total darkness. The doctor was beside me - I knew that because I could hear him breathing, and his exhalations reminded me of the trains that scraped along the tracks by my window every night. I thought I also heard my mother weeping, and the beeping of the machines that had been keeping me alive for two weeks was synchronized with the doctor's respiration. I didn't need anyone to tell me that I was blind, but given the massive infection that had been in my brain, I could've been a lot worse off - like dead.