Memory+-+The+Wound

= The Wound = = =  When Earth was four, she went to the hospital for her fourth check-up. This time there was another doctor there instead of the old one. The doctor was male and old; he looked kind and nice. When he lifted up her shirt and listened to her heart, he told her to breathe in and out. She did what she was told.

The doctor looked up at her parents and asked Earth to wait outside. She heard the doctor talking to her parents. Minutes later, her parents walked out of the room looking pale. Earth got in the car and heard her parents talking about things that she didn't understand. Weeks later, one morning when Earth woke up she saw her mom talking on the phone. Earth, again heard words she didn't understand but she tried her best to hear what her mother said. Earth mimicked as her mom spoke, "We've decided to do the operation for Earth." As soon as her name, 'Earth,' popped up she became curious. A day later she stood still as she asked her parents what //operation// meant. Her dad didn't say anything. Time passed by quickly; the faster the time went, the quicker the time before she was at the hospital. One day she found herself in patient's clothes. Her whole family was in a room that looked like a hotel but it just smelled different. She looked around and found a bracelet on her arm. She tried to pull it off but it wouldn't work. Earth then started to cry until a lady came in. She was dressed all in white. The lady was carrying a tray with strange materials.

Earth noticed a purple substance in an injection syringe. The lady quickly poked the needle into her. Earth wailed and screamed, then she started to cry. The lady assisted her to sleep on the bed but she refused, instead she followed her into a room where seats were neatly placed. Earth walked around for a minute then fell asleep. When she woke up again, Earth found herself in a room, lying down half-naked. She noticed small circles attached to her and a small machine where lots of lines where made and were going up a down. She sat up straight and found that her back hurt. She looked down and saw that the upper part of her body was wrapped up in a white, clean bandage. Then another lady dressed in white walked in and started to pull out the circles from her. It felt like pulling scotch tape out of her cheek; it really hurt. Earth again started to cry.

This nurse wasn't nice at all, she started to get mad and told Earth that there was another girl who just had the operation like her and that she never spilled a tear. But that didn't help Earth, in fact, it made her cry even louder because she was scared. She was transfered back to her own room where flowers were in a vase and fruits were neatly peeled and her brothers and sisters were quietly watching T.V but when she tried getting up from the bed she found herself stuck. And when she was able to walk, she felt really heavy. She looked back and saw a big rolling holder with saline solution and noticed that it was some how attached to her. She wasn't able to eat until the next day. She didn't feel hungry at all because of all the saline solution she was having; it was like food for her instead of real food.

As the day went on she found herself in a room full of strangers. But she knew that the more people walked in the more presents she would get, so she didn't mind. She noticed her cousin carrying gifts and handing them to her mom and soon there was a whole pile of presents. Earth quickly came out of her bed and hugged her big cousins and opened each gift. Each of the gifts had different things. Some were books and pencil sharpeners. As soon as she came to the biggest present as she opened it and saw a big toilet paper roll. Everyone giggled but Earth didn't; she continued to open the present and found herself a set of stickers. It was getting darker outside and more and more people started to leave. Her mom and sister were the last ones to leave. She was left alone with her dad.

The morning arrived pretty quickly and Earth had a hard time sleeping because of the ache in her back and she wasn't able to lean or turn on that side because it might open her wounds. Today was the day she was going to get to eat all she wanted but she still had to carry the saline solution with her. She went to McDonalds and ate a Happy Meal, she had that every morning and made her mom eat the breakfast from the hospital. Every day her dad would take her to the bookstore and buy her new books; she bought fairy tales and made her dad read them all. On the day she was finally released from the hospital, her parents gathered her things and a nurse arrived with the injection sling. She took Earth's hand and poked it right on the saline solution and pulled the tube that connected her and to the saline solution apart from her. She had her last McDonald's meal at the hospital and she headed home.

By the time she got home the sun had hit the ground fading away from the skies. She hadn't seen the sky so orange like this one for a long time. It was finally time for her to have a bath. But she couldn't because her wounds were not allowed to touch water so she had to shampoo in the sink. Now the little girl is twelve years old. The operation happened eight years ago but she still carries the wound around everywhere she goes.