I turned off the lights around 10:00. I had been feeling yucky all day, and around 12:30 my stomach pains were really bad. The more I lay there, wondering if I would be around today, I became convinced that there was a leak somewhere in my abdomen and that it was filling with fluid, like an aquarium tank. I'm not svelte, but I was convinced that my waist, which is the broadest part of my body - I think I'm rather pear-shaped - and that my upper torso was now the broadest part of my body. My former Drama Book Shop employer had died from an aortic aneurism, and I thought, is this what I have? Jonathan Larsen had gone to several ER's before the aneurism killed him, so I thought, okay, get dressed and grab a taxi.