Human

And, there was a day where I fell to the ground. I fell to the ground, without my knowing. I did not know that this happened. Before it happened, I was completely fine. I decided to sit down, because I started feeling a little tired. While I was sitting, I become very faint. I got up, and got a drink of water, and sat back down. Then, I started feeling very, very faint. So, I decided, “Maybe I should close my eyes for a while.” I closed my eyes, and I thought I was just resting; nothing seemed wrong. In the background, I could hear the TV at a low volume.

When I closed my eyes, I thought I was just relaxing. I didn’t even noticed that I slid out of the chair, and lied down on the ground. I thought I just put my head back, and entered this state of total relaxation; well, I was right about that much. During my blankness, I could not hear anything. I could only hear silence. During my blankness, I saw this weird image of a “purple bubble”, and the background was yellow for a split second before I was awaken.

When I finally woke up, everything was bright, and I guess I could see the blood vessels in my eyes, or my retinas or something, because I could see these bright yellow “branches”. So, I kinda figured that was either one of those two things. But, I woke up, and I thought to myself, “What? I thought I just fell asleep.” There were about four or five doctors standing around me, making sure I was alright. One of the men asked me, “Are you ok?” I said, “I’m fine…” Then, he asked me, “What’s your name?” I said, “Jeremy…” Then, he asked, “What year is it?” Then, I said, “2008.” My feet were on this stool, or foot-rest, so they were lifted up. After a minute, the other guy was like, “Ok, I’m gonna put your feet down. Mmkay?” So, he grabbed onto my feet, and slid the foot-stool out of the way, and slowly put my feet down. And then, the guy who was asking me those questions lifted me up, so I was sitting up. Then, he said, “I’ve seen infantry men go down like that. You have nothing to be ashamed of.” I didn’t say anything. For one; I was tired, and didn’t feel like talking. Two; I wasn’t sure how to reply to that.

I was then slowly lifted onto a stretcher, so they could wheel me in to a “holding room”. One of the guys were offering me a Tootsie-Pop. To which I just waved my hand, signaling him, “No thank you, I’m good.” When I got there, I noticed my sister was crying; I could hear her in the background. After another two minutes, a guy came in, and started talking to me. During this whole process, I didn’t look anyone in the eye; I had a blank stare. I felt pretty helpless, and very tired, and exhausted. Afterwards, we had to get an “EKG”, I believe is what it was called. I was on a wheelchair, with that same blank stare. I was wheeled into a room, where they checked my heart rate, and stuff like that. The nurse printed a paper with those lines that say like, you’re heart rate. I think it’s called an “EKG”, I don’t know.

Then, I was rolled back into the adolescent clinic, where I passed out, which is just where I wanted to be (haha), and waited for the female doctor we set an appointment with, Dr. Geneman. Then, my sister brought me a snack; Cheetos, to be specific. After that, my dad picked me up, got some BK Lounge (Burger King), went home, watched George Lopez, fell asleep, watched some more George Lopez, ate, watched George Lopez again, and finally fell asleep.

All day, I was thinking about how humans are. Were they really worried about me? Or, were they doing it for the money? I’ll tell you right now, that doctor’s appointment, we didn’t pay jack; yes, it was free. We’re military, and we used a military hospital. It was free. They didn’t charge us a penny. So, they actually cared. I compared it to a regular hospital, where they do get paid. Can you believe people would rather suffer, than pay money to be taken care of? That is a problem that involves pride, and greed. Well, for those who can afford it. For those who can’t afford it, this is turned on the doctors, and they are the ones who are greedy.

Pride? What’s with people? I wish I could tell the whole story, but there is just so much to say. Anyway, the hospital is an interesting place to study humans. Here are some little things that I noticed:

- Some of the doctors seemed like they don’t even care.

- A woman of a child was yelling at her kid, because he did something (I don’t know what).

- There’s a mother, a father, and some two year-old. The father had a leash on the two year-old.

I don’t know. This was an almost random post.

~ by Jeremy on August 16, 2008.