Thread:Gallatin/@comment-10483040-20141031124127/@comment-10483040-20141031212102

SPECIAL HALLOWEEN READ

"It’s going to be alright" they say. "You have no need to be worried. Its standard procedure" they keep insisting to me. That’s a farce and they know it! My life is on the line and they take it like it’s just another day, their faces covered by masks as they head into the operating room, their eyes shifting at each other as their shadows fade from view past the white door. I stare into the lights above me in this white room, laying here on this white bed, with its plain white sheets and pillow. I’m wired up from head to toe with fluids and IV`s on each side of me as I feel another needle enter my veins. I gasp at the slight pain as something is released from the vial. I feel the bed I was in transform as rails appear around me, but my body is not responding to this change as my emotions and senses fade from my body. As I enter the room the doctors went in, I close my eyes unable to stay awake.

I feel the breath of the doctors on the tip of my nose, like a small breeze flowing through the room. My eyes open slowly as I start to hear the voices around me speaking to each other. “Hand me the scalpel" one says as he motions for a nurse nearby. "How Big sir" The lady replied as she opened up a large type of toolbox, pulling out a section of knives from the base. As soon as I see it, my heart skips a beat as I spark myself awake, my eyes shooting open from the daze. “Huh, the medication wore off?!" The doctor said in shock as he looks down into my chest as his eyes open my eyes to something I could never imagine. The scar down my chest is wide open, my guts out and open to the world, the rib cage breathing, the heart barely pumping, and my mind disconnected from my body as my mind feels nothing, but my heart sparking alive in a panic. "Damn....how did the patient wake up?! GET ME A NUMBER 10 AND SOME HALDOL NOW! WE NEED TO STOP THE HEART ATTACK!" The doctors and nurses nearby scramble around disappearing from view as I see the man from before speak to me slowly, as if trying to lull me back to sleep. “It’s going to be alright...It’s just a mistake...not a big one....so please calm down."

My mind does not even understand what the man is saying, his words do not enter my ears as my mind dictates what I hear in this silent environment. In that instant I hear a small Beep, a short distinct beep. It’s the heart rate monitor that’s connected to my heart at that moment. Beep...Beep...Beep. The sounds coming from that machine go faster and faster the more I look at it. Is it the machine that is busted, or is my own heart going that fast? I could not tell as I start to feel the pillow my head resting on. I start to feel my surroundings again, my senses returning to me as I test my theory by moving a few fingers on my right hand. First the thumb was able to move, then the Index followed by the middle finger. The ring finger and the Pinkie were responsive leading me to stare up, staring to avoid my hands responses as all I see is the doctor trying to calm me down. I keep trying to hear what he says, but all that comes out is an empty void of silence and emptiness, his mouth moving so slowly as if nothing should be coming out. I gaze back as I look back at the huge hole for a chest as I finally hear the sounds of my own chest. Drip Drip Drip, the sound of blood flowing through my chest as I then hear my own heartbeat. Bump Bump Bump Bump Bump. Its fast beat becomes the only sound I hear as my mind listens to that Pain bringing sound. The sound keeps getting louder and louder, Bump Bump Bump Bump Bump Bump Bump. I`m having a heart attack.

" I have the Haldol and some extra staff" The nurse returns as she brings in a group of doctors, their white suits covering up their bodies as that same nurse then puts on her mouth mask. “The boy is having a heart attack! We need to knock him out NOW" the man declares as he glares at the nurse nearby with a needle in her hands. He looks down at me as I can determine he is trying his best. "It’s going to be alright" the man said as he got his team organized throughout the operating room. "Inject the Haldol through the right arm" The man said as his eyes motion the woman to action. The nurse then moves up closer to my body slowly, a bit nervous holding the needle in her hand. Her nervous hands moving the needle signifies her recent promotion to Nurse. She then moves the needle to the top of the arm as she positions the needle and pushes down on the syringe. The Haldol enters my system as I gasp in pain from it causing my heart to ties again. Then at that moment the doctor notices that something is amiss "You need to stop! You overdosed!” As he says that, the nurse notices she got the Haldol order mixed with another patient as her mistake starts to unfold. The opening in the boy’s body shows that all the Haldol flowing into the blood stream. It reaches the heart as it pierces the heart, the medicine mixing with the blood in an unnatural way. "His heart rate is slowing down, He`s going into sleep status" A nurse monitoring the computers saying, making a sigh of relief as she pushes her red hair out of her eyes. The team calms down a bit as they see my eyes slowing lulling back to sleep. “Mission such.......wait...WHAT?!" The nurse see`s the monitors as the beeps from before are now slowing down. Beep............Beep...........Beep.........Beep........Beep. "WHATS GOING ON RACHEAL?!" The doctor said as he is trying to understand what is going on, staring back at me and back at the red-haired girl. " The Haldol is causing his heart to slowdown more then what it should, Blood stream is slowing down,...He`s dying" The woman replied trying to make sense of the monitors signals. "Lord help us.....WE NEED TO SHOCK HIM! Is his heart connected to the machine? Disconnect him" The doctor said as he got his team working faster. They disconnected me from the machine, from what I can tell from my slowly closing eyes, my vision fading fast. The doctor pulled out 2 Little Pad like items as he rubbed them together. "Kid....it’s going to be alright....." The man said as he pulls them apart to show the blue sparks from the electricity. "CLEAR" The doctor exclaimed as the Defibrillator shocks my entire body, the pain emitting from the electric prison emanates through me as all I can let out is a painful scream. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhh........" My final words... that I can say, is a scream so loud that even God can hear me, my soul and my life...fading away.

"Hey......Hey......wake up kid." The doctor nudges my body slowly as I awaken from my sleep. "Where......am I....." I said as I try to determine where I am, I’m wearing my normal clothes, Black jeans with a red T shirt. I notice how I am in the waiting room, the white room with posters around telling about various medicine like Haldol and Lisinopril. "You looked like you were having a nightmare...is it because of your operation?" The doctor asked me, looking nervous for my wellbeing. "Ye....yes I am........I’m scared......"I stuttered out as I felt his hand, his warmth, his trustfulness from his eyes. “Don’t worry, I called for your parents to come in and they`ll be here soon to be with you. Even though you don’t need them anymore, it would be good to not be alone. This is an easy operation, just removing and replacing a valve. It’s going to be alright".