my bed and went to sleep.
I remember waking up looking at the clock and seeing that it said three twenty-one, noticing the light was on, I swiftly closed my eyes and went back to sleep.
What seemed like hours later, I opened my eyes once again. I felt weak, very weak. I was barely able to open my eyes, I saw daddy sitting over me with my wrist in my hand and he was taking my pulse. I asked him what time it was but don't remember him responding because I fell back to sleep.
Lying in bed, I heard what sounded like chimes ringing. Keeping my eyes closed, I just listened to the sounds, listening closer it hit me that they weren't chimes ringing, that was an alarm going off beep…beep…beep… man, was it time to get up already. I reached around to shut off my alarm.
"Put yo' arm back down, Sweetie."
Surprised at the bizarre voice, I peeked through slits that were my eyes and looked around concerned "what the hell" was what I heard come out of my mouth.
Out of the corner of my eye, I caught the sight of a tall African American nurse doing something with the IV pole beside me. She was light skinned with the most beautiful complexion I had ever seen. The sides of her hair were pulled back in a barrette on top of her head and her scrubs were aqua.
"I take it ya don't know where ya at?"
"Ummmm, a hospital?"
"why of course, a'hospital, ya rememba why yo' here?"
"Ummmm no" I replied beginning to panic. Hearing the machine beeping, I took it she was also aware of my panic attack
"It's ok…calm down… Imma explain. First off, my name is Keisha. I'm yo' daytime nurse, I will be here til seven tonight. I just was gettin here, I thought I'd go over yo' notes when I noticed yo' bag of fluids was empty so I changed'em and now…here we are. You were admitted by Dr. Harper, your daddy right? Well, you's were brought in because ya couldn't keep not a lick of nothin down and were severely dehydrated. Honey, yo' daddy is a mess worryin over you. It says, in your chart that Dr. Robbins is ya attending physician and he has ordered some more tests run but fo'now they is waiting on yo'blood work."
Grabbing my wrist she looked at her watch while she counted my pulse. "Do ya know what today is?"
Looking at Keisha like I'd been transported to the Twilight Zone, mouth dropped opened and eyes as wide as they could go, which wasn't very far at this point in time, I just shook my head while I listened to the machine beside me beep double time.
Resting my hand back under the sheets she began tucking the hospital bed sheet in around me making me as comfortable as possible, thinking this would diminish my anxiety. "Today is Wednesday; yo' parents brought you's in on Sunday."
Thinking back the party was on Friday night, which meant I had been asleep for…three, no maybe four days.
"Holy shit, what the fuck is wrong with me." I whispered out loud instead of in my head.
"Won't be long baby girl, we'll be a'findin out."
"My parents-"
"are in da cafe, yo 'momma finally pulled yo' daddy away to force him to eat sumthin."
"That's not my momma, that's my step mom, who technically is nothing to me."
"Ohhhh" Keisha breathed with her lips forming the perfect "O".
"It's ok, you wouldn't have known, as a matter of fact I have no clue what she's doing here."
"well to tell you's da' truth, I had neva seen her befoe."
There ya go, the truth had been set free, even though she lined her lips but kept them closed and hid her crazy like the good Harper she acted to be, her neglect was her give away. I bet the Richland Gazette would be happy to run a whole article on it; I could see the byline:
Saddened by the admittance of her only step daughter, Elleny Harper to the hospital for reasons unknown Mrs. Mona Harper had yet to step foot in her room to even deliver a bouquet of flowers.
"Well, well my princess decided she needed lots of beauty sleep did she, I seem to disagree with her on the subject though."
I heard my daddy's cheery, yet concerned
I remember waking up looking at the clock and seeing that it said three twenty-one, noticing the light was on, I swiftly closed my eyes and went back to sleep.
What seemed like hours later, I opened my eyes once again. I felt weak, very weak. I was barely able to open my eyes, I saw daddy sitting over me with my wrist in my hand and he was taking my pulse. I asked him what time it was but don't remember him responding because I fell back to sleep.
Lying in bed, I heard what sounded like chimes ringing. Keeping my eyes closed, I just listened to the sounds, listening closer it hit me that they weren't chimes ringing, that was an alarm going off beep…beep…beep… man, was it time to get up already. I reached around to shut off my alarm.
"Put yo' arm back down, Sweetie."
Surprised at the bizarre voice, I peeked through slits that were my eyes and looked around concerned "what the hell" was what I heard come out of my mouth.
Out of the corner of my eye, I caught the sight of a tall African American nurse doing something with the IV pole beside me. She was light skinned with the most beautiful complexion I had ever seen. The sides of her hair were pulled back in a barrette on top of her head and her scrubs were aqua.
"I take it ya don't know where ya at?"
"Ummmm, a hospital?"
"why of course, a'hospital, ya rememba why yo' here?"
"Ummmm no" I replied beginning to panic. Hearing the machine beeping, I took it she was also aware of my panic attack
"It's ok…calm down… Imma explain. First off, my name is Keisha. I'm yo' daytime nurse, I will be here til seven tonight. I just was gettin here, I thought I'd go over yo' notes when I noticed yo' bag of fluids was empty so I changed'em and now…here we are. You were admitted by Dr. Harper, your daddy right? Well, you's were brought in because ya couldn't keep not a lick of nothin down and were severely dehydrated. Honey, yo' daddy is a mess worryin over you. It says, in your chart that Dr. Robbins is ya attending physician and he has ordered some more tests run but fo'now they is waiting on yo'blood work."
Grabbing my wrist she looked at her watch while she counted my pulse. "Do ya know what today is?"
Looking at Keisha like I'd been transported to the Twilight Zone, mouth dropped opened and eyes as wide as they could go, which wasn't very far at this point in time, I just shook my head while I listened to the machine beside me beep double time.
Resting my hand back under the sheets she began tucking the hospital bed sheet in around me making me as comfortable as possible, thinking this would diminish my anxiety. "Today is Wednesday; yo' parents brought you's in on Sunday."
Thinking back the party was on Friday night, which meant I had been asleep for…three, no maybe four days.
"Holy shit, what the fuck is wrong with me." I whispered out loud instead of in my head.
"Won't be long baby girl, we'll be a'findin out."
"My parents-"
"are in da cafe, yo 'momma finally pulled yo' daddy away to force him to eat sumthin."
"That's not my momma, that's my step mom, who technically is nothing to me."
"Ohhhh" Keisha breathed with her lips forming the perfect "O".
"It's ok, you wouldn't have known, as a matter of fact I have no clue what she's doing here."
"well to tell you's da' truth, I had neva seen her befoe."
There ya go, the truth had been set free, even though she lined her lips but kept them closed and hid her crazy like the good Harper she acted to be, her neglect was her give away. I bet the Richland Gazette would be happy to run a whole article on it; I could see the byline:
Saddened by the admittance of her only step daughter, Elleny Harper to the hospital for reasons unknown Mrs. Mona Harper had yet to step foot in her room to even deliver a bouquet of flowers.
"Well, well my princess decided she needed lots of beauty sleep did she, I seem to disagree with her on the subject though."
I heard my daddy's cheery, yet concerned
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