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Waiting For Her To Die

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lavinla



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Waiting For Her To Die

The patients’ bed shook every time she inhaled. The girl, tired beyond human capacity, sat motionless at the foot of the bed. The girl was cold. This time of night always brought cold with it. Every muscle in her body hurt. Her eyes burned. Tears slowly leaked down her cheeks. She was crying silently. She could hear her own heart beating. She was surprised it beat so slowly. She was surprised because her mind was uncontrollably racing. Inside her, all she felt was agony. She wanted to scream. Scream so loud the earth would stop moving.

The patient, the girls’ mother, whimpers in pain. It was a primitive whimper, unintelligible to human vocabulary. Pain, sadness, misery… All were expressions that belonged to no language in particular. The girl pressed the call bell. In what seems like an instant, the nurse is at her side. The girl doesn’t even have to make the request. The nurse seems to have mind reading abilities. With her expert hands, she wipes with an alcohol swab the port making a permanent residence in the patients’ sub-clavicular artery. Without hesitation, she pushes the clear transparent ambrosia into the fluid traffic of the intravenous line. When the plunger reaches its destination, she withdraws the metallic needle. The nurse stands beside the girl while the patients breathing relaxes, and the bed stops shaking.

“Have you eaten?” asks the nurse, resting her hand on the girls shoulder.

“Not yet,” answers the girl. She hasn’t spoken in hours. Her silent vigil at her mothers’ bedside now made attempts to speak a foreign concept. “Maybe later…”

The nurse says something else to the girl, but she doesn’t hear her. The girl knows that nothing will ever be the same again. Every second is bit by bit, creeping closer and closer to death. With every passing second, the girls beaten heart feel tighter. She can no longer feel the warmth of her blood flooding the darkest corners inside her body. Instead she feels the incredibly cold shadows that since sunset have grown and stretched themselves over the edges of her mother’s bedside. The weight of her reality crushes her spine. She is suddenly aware of every emotion that encompasses sorrow and is left breathless. Her head falls onto her mother’s febrile feet. Her tears break the levy, washing over her mother’s feet. The girl closes her eyes, and without realising, falls asleep.

This is how the nurse later finds the girl when she returns to the room. Breaking protocol meant to protect a healthcare worker from the burden of sorrow and sadness, she charts in the progress notes, “Pt and daughter sleeping peacefully.”

Post Wed May 14, 2008 5:32 am 
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Allison



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Very interesting choice of story topics, but well written. Keep up the good work.

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Post Fri May 16, 2008 1:27 am 
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lavinla



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quote:
Originally posted by Allison:
Very interesting choice of story topics, but well written. Keep up the good work.

Alli


It's not part of my usual choice of topics... it was a writting exercise for a class...

Post Fri May 16, 2008 2:52 am 
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Allison



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LOL Ok. I hope you got a good grade.

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