Chapter 6 : Waking up

My arm was up by my head, a large bulky blood stained bandage wrapped tightly around it. I also couldn’t feel it, my sight was the only sense persuading me it was actually there at all. My whole body ached from top to toe as well like I had been dragged around on the back of a car.

I pulled my good arm up to pull the things out of my nose.

“No you don’t” Jasper said turning his attention away from one of the drips and gently putting my arm down by my side. “Its oxygen; you have to leave that in.” I groaned trying to take in my surroundings. Everything was a shiny white and cream, illuminated by different lights on monitors; the different beeps trying to perform an off key symphony against each other. Ghastly floral curtains were parted around the beds, all of them open and an old man in the bed next to me had more tubes then skin visible. His chest mechanically rising and falling with the ventilator, his skin an ash gray with his eyes closed in a drug educed sleep. Jasper closed the curtains around me obscuring the rest of Gods waiting room from view.

“How are you feeing?” Jasper asked.

“I can’t move my arm.”
“I will get a doctor to explain in a bit.” Jasper smiled, leaning over and adjusting the tubes that where sucked somewhere half way up my nose.
“My throat feels like a rat’s cage,” I moaned.

“Here,” Jasper poured some water from a jug on my bedside table with a straw in and held it in front of my face, “Have a sip of this. You where incubated which means we had to put a tube down you throat and breath for you; that’s why your mouth and throat are a little bit sore.” Jasper’s voice was kind and gentle though I had no idea why, I had done this to my self and I wasn’t exactly grateful for the treatment. If it wasn’t for a damn question about beans I would probably have been dead. and with her again.

“Why are you being so nice to me?” I asked.
Jasper smiled. “Because you are sick and need my help. It doesn’t matter how you got here, to be honest that just means you need looking after more.” I shook my head but didn’t argue the case, he was looking after me and it was rude to throw that back in his face after all the trouble I had caused.
“Could you pop this under your arm for me please?” I lifted up my arm and Jasper popped a thermometer under and waited. “All good, I’ll go and get the doctor for you. You never know, you might even be aloud out of the ICU today.”

“Am I going home?” I asked surprised.
“Oh no, sorry love just down to the paediatric ward. It will be better for you down there though, A bit more to do, and no scary old people.” Jasper whispered the last bit, giggled and walked away pulling the curtains back so it could sink in exactly where I was and it certainly wasn’t heaven. and she wasn’t there.