Judy Zityniuk
Ms. Bavaro Final Draft
1/24/12
Shocker
The scent just hit me, it smelled like death and sickness and I felt a cold chill freeze my body. When I woke up I did not know where I was and it took me long time to understand what happened. I looked around in a panic, examining all the machines I was attached to. A slow beeping sound rang in my ear over and over again. I was on a hospital bed in a room by myself. I woke up moving all the wires attached to my chest. There was a green wire attached under my skin, I saw it in my wrist. Red and white wires were attached to my heart too. I was so confused and I did not know what happened to me. I remember thinking in my head “what the hell, what is this place? Where the hell am I?” I panicked and started to tear the wires off of me. The place did not even look like a hospital, for all I know, some man could have kidnapped me and attached me to these machines. I could not get the wires off and the harder I tried, the louder the machines beeped. The machine beeped faster and louder and it made me more nervous. I tried to run but there were wires underneath my skin and I could not get out. I started to look around and I saw white curtains with red stains on them and I did not want to know what laid behind them. I was just concentrated on getting the hell out of this place. No one was there, no doctors, no strangers, no people, no animals; I was just stuck in this room alone. The whole situation just reminded me of a saw movie where a clown would pop up on the TV and tell me how long I have to live. I did not know how to get out, where to run or even who to run from, I froze and I felt like I could not move. I kept telling myself, “relax Lisa, we will get out of this just relax.” The room was so cold, almost as if I was supposed to be dead and they were freezing my body. It was like I was outside in the snow without any cloths on, shivering in the cold. Then suddenly came a light that shinned so bright, it almost blinded me. This light was not a your normal light that helps you see. It shinned as a white light almost as if you were about to see angels come walking out of it. I just stared at it while sitting up in bed and after awhile I started to crawl towards the light, I didn’t get off the bed though. Suddenly, I was able to get the wires off of my body. I was able to move my legs and walk over to the light. I took the wires off of me and I got out of bed and started walking baby steps towards the light. I noticed I only had a gown on. Someone changed me out of my normal cloths. I don’t remember anything that happened and everything was so weird. How could I not remember what happened to me? At each step, my feet felt like they were stepping on ice because the ground was so cold. Yet, each step closer to the light the ground suddenly became warm and gave me a comforting, relaxing feeling through my whole body. Every step I took closer to the light, the more I felt better. I started to relax and I was not scared. I just concentrated on finding out what this light was and wondering if it could get me out of here. I finally was very close to the light, even though the light was only 5 steps away; it took me a half an hour to walk there because I hesitated so much. I started to put my hand towards the light. I was so scared I turned my head away, closed my eyes and put my hand into the light. It was quiet and nothing happened so I turned around and looked. SLAP! Something was pulling me into the light and whatever it was; it made a loud smacking noise trying to take me. I started to scream, push, kick and cry until I blacked out. Then a sudden shock hit my body and it felt like someone picked me up and threw me across the room. I opened my eyes only to find myself back on the hospital bed except this time doctors were surrounding me. Everything was blurry but I could see and hear that the doctors were yelling and screaming at each other. “HOW COULD YOU MAKE THIS MISTAKE, YOU ALMOST LET HER DIE!” You should have seen that she still had a pulse and was alive. Then he looked at me, it had to be the most scariest stare I ever seen. He leaned over and looked into my eyes with his black dark eyes, checking to see if I was awake. My eyes were open and so he started talking to me. “You are okay, you were in a accident.” He told me, now they started moving my bed into another room. We moved out of a cold, chilly room into a nice warm room and they covered me with blankets. I don’t think the doctor noticed I was awake when he was yelling at the other doctor so he left out what really happened to me. I found out what really happened once I got out of the hospital. I was in a car crash, he didn’t lie but what he left out was that they put under an unnecessary surgery where it seemed like the surgery failed and I died. The doctors failed to realize that I was actually still alive; everything was paralyzed except my brain. I was not dead but I had no idea what was happening on the outside because on the inside I was dreaming, dreaming of my death coming to me.
My parents were notified immediately when I had crashed and rushed to the hospital. They got a terrifying phone call from a police man saying that their daughter had been in a car crash and is critical condition. I can only imagine the paleness that overcame their face when they heard the news. After hours in the waiting room, the doctors came out and told my parents that I was in a coma. I was in a coma for about a month before the doctors told my parents that I most likely would not make it. I was told my mother fell to the ground and cried while my father hugged her and wiped his eyes. My sister ran to my hospital room and just stared at me. I was in another world and I had no idea. After talking with the doctors, they agreed to donate my body for my organs. Yet, I was still alive when they thought I was dead. It was when they took away my life support that I think I started to see the light in my dream. After taking me off lie support, one doctor noticed that I was twitching. My finger was moving and then my other fingers moved as well. My eyes were closed but he put his stethoscope against my chest and heard a slight heartbeat. Get her back on the life support I hear her breathing he yelled. After putting me back on the life support again that was when I felt the sudden shock. I opened my eyes and this is when I saw al the doctors yelling. I almost died but it was the doctors fault, at least I think it was just a blessed miracle.
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