Sunday, September 5, 2010

Just because I'm bored.. a memory as I see it

It’s cold. *Beep* The air is filled with smells of alcohol swabs and sterile supplies. Directly in front of me is a bare white wall interrupted only by a brown door and a black rimed clock.*Beep* The air doesn’t seem to be moving. When I look left there is a wall composed completely of glass that shows a narrow balcony then the pale blue cloudless sky beyond.*Beep* When I look to the right I first see the reason for the constant beep then another glass wall but this one shows a round room with other rooms just like mine branching off of it and a solid oak desk planted right in the middle. The machine in question is my IV with a tube going into my left hand. A shiver works its way up my spine as a man wearing a blue nursing outfit and stainless steel cart opens my door. Foreign chatter flows into my room like a wave approaching the beach. It seems to just crash over me within a few seconds of the door being opened. “I am here to take your blood pressure” he tells me in broken English. I just stick my arm out without a muttered response. After his machine beeps like mine he rolls his cart of out my room and leaves the door open. The lobby of my floor seems like a bee hive. All these adults in identical blue outfits are buzzing around doing their jobs and recording data. Midst the chaos I see a face that I have seen my whole life. A huge smile spreads across my face as my mom comes into my room. She walks up to me and immediately pulls me into a hug taking me from my hospital room back to my home and family. She makes the current unfamiliar situation disappear. She makes me feel like nothing has changed. “Sorry I had to leave for the night sweetheart but don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere again.” Just like that my cold, sterile, foreign rooms transforms into a slightly better place to be.

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