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Songbird
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since 1999-12-15
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0 posted 2001-05-23 10:18 PM



Between crisp white sheets
I lie
Waiting
While down the halls I hear
Echos of human voices
And beeping

I want to put on my clothes and leave
Don't want to wait
Till this cot rolls
Yet bare bottomed
In open air gown
I wait

Too late
To leave now
I've been
Prepped
The nurse
Is rolling me
Through the door
The doctor smiles
A wide grinned smile
Telling me
It won't be long

A sweet nurse holds my hand
A needle injects a fluid
Into the waiting portal

The rest is a blank
Till........................
I'm hearing voices...
Saying, "Are you going to wake up?"
It's over................


© Copyright 2001 Marcia Estep - All Rights Reserved
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Member Patricius
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1 posted 2001-05-23 11:18 PM


A scary thing to go through, when your in the hospital.  It's always wonderful to wake up and know you'll soon go home.

Betty Lou Hebert

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Member Rara Avis
since 2001-03-10
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2 posted 2001-05-23 11:21 PM


And I'm so glad it's over.  I get so sick from the anesthetic that your poem made my stomach roll.  Love, joyce
Songbird
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3 posted 2001-05-23 11:37 PM


LOL Joyce, I was afraid of that !! fair warning hospital story!!
FoxXena
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4 posted 2001-06-15 09:07 PM


I know how scary the hospital can be. I spent two afternoons there getting operations, and the recovery period was next to hell.

*+*Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.~
-Publilus Syrus*+*

Red_Feather
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5 posted 2001-06-15 10:40 PM


I never have and i hope i never do, second had anxiety of this variety is enough for me.

One's not half two it's two are halves of one EE Cummings

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