She'll Be Free

Things that kept me up all night:

• The obvious cold that traveled deep into my bones. 
• The worries that I would surely get hypothermia and freeze to death. 
• The noises I kept hearing: the wind, bugs in my ears, leaves rustling, squirrels, and the imaginary bear and moose I thought I heard. 
• Not being able to get comfortable and always being afraid of moving for surely the hammock would fall. 
• The worries about a bear getting into my poorly hung food bad and thus not having any food for the next day. 
• The worries that because I was unable to treat my water (the solution was empty), my throat hurt and it felt like I couldn't breathe. It would surely close up and I would die without anyone knowing until Saturday. 
• I had to pee.