she called it the hunched-over-in-agony shuffle , accomplished by sliding her feet instead of actually lifting them , and dealing with all the tubes and lines and needles and drains in her body , and trying to keep her ass covered at the same time because all she could wear-sort of wear-was one of those miserable cotton hospital gowns and it was n't even tied , just kind of draped over her with just one of her arms actually through a sleeve .