Accidents
1
“Wake up….open your eyes, gently?” , he opened his weary
eyes to be greeted by an unfamiliar face, she looked slightly worried , “where
am I” he wondered , “how do you feel?” she continued to speak still quite
worried, awareness hit him like a vicious slap, overwhelmed by the noise of the
surroundings he felt a surge of acute pain in his head, panic-stricken he tried
to sit up but his body was not ready, paralysis gripped him, it was like his
entire body had frozen.
“Relax”, she said. “Just breath….inhale and exhale”, he did
as instructed. ”Do you feel a little better?” “yeah” “Now try to move your
body...slowly”, he lifted himself up, his body was responsive to his great
relief. “what happened?”
“You were hit by a car…my car“ “What?” “yeah….you came out
of nowhere, right in front of my car, so
I brought you here at the Apollo hospital, I am a doctor here. You have a few
physical injuries but the good news is….” “oh no!!!!”, he looked enormously
concerned.
“Whats wrong?”, she had a puzzled look on her face. ”How
long have I been here?” “About two
hours” “Holy Shit!!!”, he leaped out of the bed and ran out of the room shouting
“that is terrible…..that is fucking terrible!!”. Clueless about what just
happened she called the nurses to help her stop the man who, as it seemed, had
suddenly gone crazy.
2
As Sam was about to enter the lift he remembered something,
he had forgotten to take his wallet, “that’s my Sam eternally absent minded”,
his mother would often say. Sam thought
he had already locked the door and the lift was here standing, waiting for him
to aboard, it would be a shame to let it just leave, the cramped and dimly lit
interiors of the lift suddenly seemed very inviting, who needs a wallet for a
little evening jog, his mind was made, he went inside the lift. Sam was not
only eternally absent minded, he also possessed a very healthy amount of
laziness.
There was a slight chill in the air, winter was about a
month away, the breeze made jogging fun. After fifteen minutes a drained Sam
decided it was time for a bit of rest. He felt a vibration in his pockets, it
was his mobile getting restless. He mined it out of the pocket of his running
shorts, it was an unknown number. He got all excited trying to guess who it was
on the other end, it was like when he was a kid and he did not know who on the
other end of the line was, he had to guess by listening to the voice
.
“Hello”, Sam answered the call. The voice on the other end was
completely unfamiliar, it was cold and
distant. It informed him that his wife was among the four people that had
participated in a disastrous road accident, which resulted in her getting
terribly injured and loosing a life threating amount of blood, she was lying in
the intensive care unit of the Apollo hospital. Apparently Sam’s wife had a very
rare blood type and unfortunately the hospital was out it. Fortunately though
Sam had the same blood type, he informed the voice that he was on his way. The
voice also mentioned that it was very sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
A plethora of emotions swept through Sam, he was not sure
what he felt, he decided he needed to hurry, he must go up to his apartment get
his wallet and car keys and rush to the hospital. He dashed out of the park
into the main road and got hit by a car, the driver happened to be a young girl
who was a resident doctor at the Apollo hospital. She took him to the hospital leaving
his shattered phone abandoned on the road. Back in the ER once she was sure
that he had stabilised she looked for some identification in his clothes, but
he had none, Sam had left his wallet in his apartment, so all she could do was
to wait for him to regain consciousness.
