What I learned From Eight Weeks in a Hospital

Abby Jaquint
5 min readNov 29, 2019
Photo by Martha Dominguez de Gouveia on Unsplash

First, let me say that my stay is far from over.

And second, I’ll clarify that this isn’t an inpatient stay.

Eight weeks ago, I started PHP (partial hospitalization program) at a hospital not fifteen minutes from my house.

Since then, I’ve graduated from PHP and moved on to IOP (Intensive outpatient program) in a room down the hall…

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Abby Jaquint

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