Zombie Outbreak: 30 Days in a Hospital With a Broken Leg

Someone wrote on your cast while you slept. Two words, in purple marker: DON'T RUN. You couldn't run if you tried. You broke your leg this morning, the cast comes off in thirty days, and you're on the fourth floor of Saint Brigid's Hospital when the first nurse runs past your door. Something runs after her. We follow you day by day through 30 days in a hospital during a zombie outbreak, on crutches: an 88-year-old volunteer named Ida who hasn't hurried since 1971, tennis balls on your crutch tips, a cafeteria two flights down, an orderly called Tyler who runs marathons, and one question nobody can answer. Who wrote on your cast? Real facts in this story: park rangers tell you never to run from a bear, because running can make it chase you; hospitals plan to last about four days (96 hours) without outside help; in a lot of hospitals a yellow wristband means fall risk and a red one means allergies; the rule for stairs on crutches is up with the good leg, down with the bad; a cast saw doesn't spin, it vibrates, and it's built to cut a hard cast, not soft skin; after weeks in a cast the muscles shrink and the leg comes out thin and stiff. 0:00 Day 0: Don't Run 0:29 They Chase What Runs 1:02 The Visitor 1:22 A Foot From Your Face 1:54 Day 1: Room 412 2:34 Somebody Always Runs 2:51 Two Flights Down 3:19 The Cafeteria 3:30 Speed Is Life 4:07 The Pharmacy 4:41 Footsteps 5:03 Day 17: The Fall 6:01 The Purple Marker 6:39 Day 25: The Gap 7:14 Day 30: Cast Off 7:39 The Lobby 8:10 Two Words This is a fictional animated story. The facts are general knowledge, not medical or safety advice. #zombie #survival #hospital