At 19, Soren Aldaco found herself alone in an emergency room for 8 hours, with doctors reopening the wounds from the double mastectomy she had undergone just two weeks earlier.
Inserting a Q-tip in the hole they had to cut open, doctors aggressively knocked out blood clots, sewed surgical drains into her body, and removed over three cups of blood that had pooled in her chest.


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