The Wordsmith's Forge

My record for going without sleep is one week. Had no choice at the time it was either stay up to finish papers, and exams after a week at home being my father's donor, or fail out of college. I managed to stay coherent in class, give the presentation, pass with a's and b's. And then managed an extra two hours until my mother and great aunt came to pick me up. And then I collapsed like a sack of rice. They had to call my uncle to pick me up and carry me into the apartment, and I was unconscious for two days. I'm told it worried my mother so much that she kept putting a mirror under my nose just to be sure I was alive.