I have been in the hospital for two days awake on constant pain medication. I have had Aunt Rosa help me piece some of my life together including when bills for our families home need to be paid, the execution of their will and planning a wake and memorial service with our local church.
The world did not stand still for my parents death and no one seemed willing to make the transition easy for me least of all the lawyers dealing with my mother's will and the life insurance company. We had taken several calls already and I was barely holding it together.
Aunt Rosa did not know me well, but I had to trust her with everything that my parents had left behind. That being the case she had said she was filing for temporary medical custody of me because of my severe head trama, but I disagreed strongly. My only help was trying to control everything and hold my medical choices in her hands. Someone I knew my parents did not trust The state was supposed to be looking into the case and in the mean time she had been granted temporary custody.
Rosa and I had gotten into a heated argument over her actions and her choice to try to put me into medically induced accoma to lessen any damage to the brain. The doctor vetoed her choice as unnecessary and had given the state his recommendation. Rosa was trying to find a second opinion and my current doctor could not say anything, but every time he came in he looked at me with pity.
My case as they would say was in issue between the state and the family regarding a critically injured and disabled individual. In other words I had no rights of my own as long as I needed breath support. The minute the tube was out of my mouth and I could breathe without assistance of any kind I would be considered not critically injured. Rosa however was trying to make a case for my head wound as a reason that I was not able to make clear choices.
I understand now why my parents had not trusted her. She was a snake and only had her interests at heart.
In short the definition of Disney super villain did covered Rosa's ethical character pretty well in my opinion, but the state was buying her good aunt bit. The only thing I could activity do to prevent her was to get better as soon as possible. However in the mean time I refused to sign any paper work that I had not read line by line and had a state appointed case worker read for me and explain if I had any questions.
This act alone indicated to the state to some degree that I was of sound mind. Of course, I was told all this on my hospital bed unable to move and communicating through yes and no answers. The only word I had actually said clearly in the last week was lawyer when Rosa suggested the medically induced accoma when the doctor and her believed me to be asleep.
Having an advocate who knew me would have been nice, but as I was learning the world in general was not nice and greed truly was a very unflattering characteristic. All I wanted to do was greive there loss, but I was given no chance to do so as I was legally an adult.
Take the life insurance people for example. My parents each had a policy and all benefits were supposed to go to me upon their death. They had save quite a bit, but because they died in a car accident they wanted the state to declare the fault of the accident first before awarding any funds. If Dad had caused the accident his policy would be held indifinatly until it was be considered legal damages awarded to the remaining family members of the other victims. I did not find this fair at all as I was the only survivor and Dad meant for that protection to go to me.
Already the other family members were trying to sue my family's estate for loss of life and all while Rosa was trying to take her cut. This was one of the reasons I had my state appointed custodian to call a private lawyer. I needed help or my life was not worth saving. He was supposed to come by today to speak with my doctor and myself to see if he would take any portion of my case as well as reviewing the state's case.
I did not want to seem prinoid but I almost wanted them to check for bugs before he came in the room just in case Rosa was hoping to spy on me.
I heard and knock on the door and heard someone enter. "Miss it is Dr. Martin and be says he would like to try to remove the breathing tube today. Another nurse and I will help you. It will be uncomfortable especially with the punctured lung, but it will allow you to speak and eat. Blink once if you agree for us to remove the tube." I blink hard once and she laughs and stoked my head as my mother once did. They start work together and they are right it is painful and I feel like gagging and puking everywhere. I'm too weak and cough constantly as they finally pull out the long tube.
It felt odd not being there stuck in my mouth but it was one sign I was healing. It made me think of my ex boyfriends long thick member filling my mouth as I gagged on the hard flesh. Pushing my tounge around it. The thought came out of no where and I had not last had a boyfriend in over a year. I had been focusing on school and I was the class nerd in highschool. My only s****l experience was with Josh a member of the debate team in Junior year and while we dated we never went beyond oral. Not that he didn't want to. However it is weird that I thought of it after all this time and that I miss the device that kept me muzzled so long. I shugg the feeling off and continue my imitation of a statue.
I croak a thank you to the nurses and they give me a cup of ice to eat slowly. Now that the doctor had lifted the tube order it was now the courts turn to return my rights back to me. Rosa just needed to give up and leave me alone. I know it's wishful thinking but a girl can hope can't she?