gurney

pyörälliset paarit, paarit puhekieltä A stretcher having wheeled legs.
2001, w:Joyce Carol Oates|Joyce Carol Oates, w:Middle Age: A Romance|Middle Age: A Romance, Fourth Estate, paperback edition, page 22

Yet her vision has narrowed strangely (good, for she was in a medical facility, if she were having a hemorrhage or a stroke it could not be happening at a more convenient time) so that she was able to see little in the fluorescent-lit space except the man who lay motionless on a gurney beneath the strongest of the lights.

I’m pretty sure I didn’t actively steer towards the tree, but… I don’t know. I just remember that wave of despair and then the EMTs pulling me out of the car and putting me on a gurney.