The flash, it was blinding, it felt like the whole world was spinning and time was slowing down. Somehow I spent two whole years in those two milliseconds I had before the inevitable. The time went by so quickly but so slowly, I felt I could count each second despite their being less than a second left. Time has simultaneously stopped and started all at once. The pain starts before it even hits. I feel heat overtake my body. It feels like I'm being cooked from the inside. I can already smell the sickly smell of iron before my skin has even been penetrated. Boom. All at once my body goes from boiling to freezing as I lose conscious. I wake up staring at the bright light of the hospital roof. How?

Why?

And what exactly happened?

These three questions flood my brain. I feel like I'm about to lose conscious again.