Fated to him

Chapter six

The nurse then took over from the doctor. She helped me out of the bed to the bathroom where she also helped in brushing my teeth then thereafter she also assisted me in taking my bath. At this point in my life, I felt like I was paralyzed although I was now able to feel my legs. It still didn't feel like my whole body was ok or rather fine if I were to put it in a sentence. The nurse who I later found out her name was Theresa was so nice to me that I even thought her to be my mother. After we were both through from the bathroom,she dressed me up in a blue hospital gown that was a bit bogus that I actually thought she gave me a maternity gown,as if she had read my thoughts from my mind she then responded "I know you won't be comfortable with this cloth but all I can say to you is that this is the only available clothing on the house that can be given you for now'. I understood where she was driving and I simply gave her a nod affirming all her responses.

She then went out to God knows where and brought back in her hands a tray of food that contained a delicacy of vegetable rice and stew with some fruits like apple and banana to complement it side by side. I was already salivating to this delicious food but she cut me in and said "but you know that we have to pray before you can go ahead and eat, right?" And I nodded in assertion. So she then started the prayer " Father Lord Jesus,we have come unto you at this hour and point in time that you may bless our food as we are about eating, thank you Lord for we believe that you have answered our prayer, and a loud AMEN!!!! I also answered in affirmation too. I started eating my food and ate everything in less than 30 minutes. Nurse Theresa just sat beside me staring inconsiderably at me. I wondered what she might be thinking in her mind 'this girl is really a foodie ?'. I finished everything on the plate including the fruits and food and I thanked her very well for such a delicious early morning breakfast. I even hugged her to show that I was really impressed by her kindness. I then laid down on the bed as she went out to return the plate from wherever she brought it from. When she came back I then threw the question that has been disturbing me since morning "Nurse Theresa, please where is my Mom and Dad??". I could feel the pity in her eyes,I then continued "please don't lie to me". She looked deeply into my eyes and said " darling Catherina, your Dad is currently receiving treatment from the ICU same as your Mom but your mom is kind of more receptive than your Dad but we strongly believe that they will all be ok".

I was really left dumbfounded this response from nurse Theresa that I didn't even know when the tears started pouring down from my tear glands excessively and nurse Theresa was hugging me so badly ? and telling me that everything would be alright,I literally didn't know what else I could do on this earth without my Mom and Dad ,they were both my backbone In this my tender life and age but why did faith all of a sudden turn back so roughly at me just yesterday I ,my mom and dad were happy together and were about leaving for our different activities for the day ,who would have thought that we all could be separated in less than a day. I then muttered some words of prayers in my heart within me and I really wished that all these could all just be a dream and I would really love to wake up from this terrible dream. I then told nurse Theresa that I would love to speak with each of them if my request would be granted but she hurriedly replied to me that I couldn't see them for now . She said that two days from today I would be freely allowed to go in and visit them. I just really hoped that they would be fine.

The two days finally came and went with nurse Theresa still taking intensive care of me and I got better by the minute and hour of the day. My forehead, arm and body were recovering fully,I could now move about with much ease with the help of my lovely personal nurse. I then reminded her of my request to see my parents and she gladly accepted to take me to my parents with the permission of the senior doctor that came to see me on my first day in the clinic who was the same person that introduced me to lovely Nurse Theresa.

We started walking past long passageways and entering one block or the other and then we eventually reached a particular door where nurse Theresa signaled to me and I immediately knew that she meant we had already arrived at my parents room. I was feeling agitated but yet fearful for what worse scenario I ever imagined but I finally got hold of myself and opened the door with nurse Theresa following me as my bodyguard, I saw my Dad first, he had a bandage tied around his forehead, patches or rather still stitches I guessed he got from the accident as a result of different injuries and as well different tubes were fixed in his body that I could hardly tell if one was actually for drip or for blood or rather still for oxygen?!. I quickly noticed a figure lying alongside in a different bed and I looked closely and saw that it was my mom, ?? what a cute couple even till death do them part they still very much wanted to be together. Mom's body wasn't that stitched or patched up as dad, just that her legs were really not looking good with her arm as it was given a bandage. From what I could read or process from the system that was used in regulating their heartbeat, I could see that they were breathing fine but it really kept going down and strikingly going up. I prayed that all would be better. How do you expect a twelve (12) Year old to actually know the name of these devices? I asked nurse Theresa if I could sit close to them and try speaking to them and she gave me a go ahead sign. From what I could tell they were sound asleep I didn't really want to bother them but I needed them to speak to me so as to assure me that everything was going to be alright and back to normal as it has always been.

I quickly but quietly sat down on a chair that was placed in between the two beds. One belonged to Dad and the other to my Mom. I rested my arm on mummy's bed and I started talking to them both with the hope that they'd listen and wake up to the sound of my voice,"mom dad good morning, I hope you guys are doing fine, I just really wish that all these would come to an end now am so f*****g tired of this!! how could we have imagined that in a day we all would end up like this, I really miss you guys ?I started crying almost immediately and nurse Theresa came to my rescue as I began sobbing profusely as nurse Theresa tried taking me out but I refused by dragging my feet back and trying to get free from her grip but no way she was way too strong for me, as I and her were struggling, suddenly the system that checked my dad's heartbeat started beeping which didn't mean a good thing we saw his left fingers shaking profusely and this for sure didn't mean anything good as immediately as possible nurse Theresa quickly hit the emergency phone dialer that was placed in the room and dialed a number or two.

It was as if mom could hear what was happening to dad and she also began vibrating and shaking in her bed and I just wondered what type of love they shared that even to the point of death they both were still connected. Nurses and Doctors rushed in almost immediately, some faced my Mom and some also faced my dad. I stood wide agape looking at what the doctors and nurses were doing to both my parents as nurse Theresa consoled me, they tried all they could to save them in as far as going to use an electric motor to try waking them up but what immediately gave me the spikes was when I saw the head doctor finally signaled the nurses to stop whatsoever they were doing as he bowed his head down and later rose it only to look towards my house and started shaking his head in a kind of disbelief and walked towards me and shook hands with me and said 'I should be strong and brave that this wasn't the end of the world ' it was then it dawned on me that the unspeakable and unimaginable has happened ?MY PARENTS WERE DEAD ? how could life be so cruel and hard to me by making and allowing the two very best things and people to disappear from the very face of the earth??! And in my very before my mom and dad faces and body were covered up in white clean cloth and were quickly rolled away.

I was quickly brought out of the room by other nurses and taken to the senior doctors room. I just sat in the room deep in shock and couldn't even mutter any word out loud for Christs sake I am only 12 years old no grandparents either from the mother or father side,no close relation as to whoever except one Aunty Stella from my mother's side in fact she was my mother's immediate senior sister but she wasn't to be mentioned as a family member.