sábado, 31 de enero de 2009

Short Story: An undesirable trip

It was when I was approximately six or seven years old, when a normal day of school I started to suffer a terrible fever and ache in my ears and throat. My mom, very worried, took me to my house to have my free rest day. For all the day she tried to make down my fever with Tylenol and repeated baths. But my fever still remains. So in the early night my mom decided to take me to a hospital near of my house to the emergency area. I remember that I became scare when my mom came to my side and said:
- Let’s dress you. Your fever is not going down so I have to take you to the hospital.
- I don’t want to go to the hospital. They are going to give me an injection. – I said.
- Sorry, we have to go. - She repeated.
Then we started our undesirable trip to the hospital. I didn’t remember anything about while we were going in the car. I believe I fell asleep.
After few minutes we arrived to the hospital and there were where the things became worst. We have to wait like an hour and I was double sick, sick with my real sickness and sick from wait. The case is that they call me. First, a nurse checked my temperature, it still remain high. Then, they took me to a room with a doctor. He checked my ears and throat and sent me to another room with a little stretcher, and tell to my mom he will came back in few minutes. In that moment I knew he was going to give me and injection. I started to cry and said to my mom that they have to wait for me to fall asleep for give me the injection and she answered:
- Of course, we will wait.- And she started to move me with a lovely slow movement, and continue:
- Sleep, sleep, my little baby.
When I was not sleep yet, the doctor entered in the room with and injection in his hands. I looked my mom and I told her:
- You promised me! – And she upped her look for the doctor face. Then I knew she lied to me. So, I thought that if my mom was not going to defend me I had to defend myself alone, and I did it. I was furious with my mom; she was leaving the doctor giving me another pain. I was shouting:
- You promised me! You promised me! – looking at my mom, while I was jumping in the stretcher and throwing kicks and fists in all directions. But I was too little to defend myself from three adults and they could control me after some minutes. My mom held my legs and a nurse my arms, while the doctor took off a small part of my pants and put alcohol in my little bottom. I was just shouting:
- No! No! No!- But the doctor told me:
- You have to breathe, or it is going be more painful. - I was too scared so I obeyed, and he pricked me. Since that moment I didn’t remember any more. I just remember that I woke up better the next day, and I didn’t have more courage with my mom.

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