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Story: His Lucky Blessing
“ D o you think after all this time she’ll ever come out of this?”
“At this point, I’m not sure. I can only sign off for another week before I’m forced to pull the plug. I hate to see someone so young like this.”
“I’ve definitely gotten close to her since she been here. Every day I come in I pray that she’s up.”
“Me too. Maybe tomorrow.”
I could clearly hear them having a damn conversation about me but I couldn’t move or open my eyes. My body was heavy and felt like ants were crawling all over me.
“Is that her finger moving?”
“Girl hell no! You just got me excited for nothing.”
“No foreal, look!”
My eyes shot open and all I could see was two black girls standing over me with tears in their eyes. The machines that were connected to me were going haywire.
“Go get the doctor!”
“You go!”
“Dammit, go get the doctor right now.”
The girl ran out of the room while the other girl smiled at me. For a few days now I laid here listening but unable to move or respond. Whoever these girls were they had really taken a liking to me. I was so glad because maybe they could tell me what the hell happened to me.
“I’m so glad you woke up. It’s been months now and we fought to keep you alive. The baby in your stomach is growing every day.”
I shifted my head and stared at her strangely. A baby? They had to get this tube out of my mouth. Fuck was she talking about? I knew damn well I wasn’t pregnant because I hadn’t slept with anyone. I closed my eyes and thought back as much as I could.
The doctor came and started checking all my vitals and talking to me to see if I would respond.
Because of the tube down my throat all I could do was nod or shake my head.
He asked me to squeeze his hands and was happy with my reaction.
Moments later, they were removing the tube from my throat.
For the first few minutes, I couldn’t speak.
The two black nurses stayed behind to get me cleaned up.
“Did you say I was pregnant?” I asked with a hoarse voice.
“Yes ma’am. Isn’t that amazing?” The shorter nurse said.
She must have noticed the sad look on my face. From what I could remember I was already pregnant before and I had lost my baby. Who I was pregnant from was eluding me right now. I couldn’t think. The taller black nurse approached me and grabbed my hand. Her name read Stacy on the name badge.
“It’s a lot for us to talk about but today is not the day.
This is your first day with your eyes open and we just want you to get adjusted after being on the machine for so long.
I’m Stacy the charge nurse and this is my cousin, Velma.
We’ve been standing in the gap for you since you arrived.
We’re going to take this day by day and anything you want to know just ask us. What’s your name?”
I thought for a minute before I responded, “Merci.”
“We finally have a name. You’ve been a Jane Doe for months now.”
“Where am I?”
“You’re in LA. Now that I could hear you talk you sound like you from the south.”
“How the hell I get to LA?” I asked confused.
They both looked at each other funny. It was like they knew something I didn’t know and I wasn’t in any kind of mood to okay with them.
“I don’t think today is a good day to relive this. I work a double tomorrow. Let’s start fresh tomorrow,” Stacy said. “Your brain is going into overload you still need to rest because they will be in and out all day.”
“What day is it?”
Velma looked at her Apple Watch, “It’s 4:34 in the afternoon on a Friday.”
“What’s the date?”
“November 12 th .”
If it was one thing I could remember, was my birthday. It was coming up in a few days. Tears formed in my eyes as I thought about being tied down in the damn hospital not knowing what was going on with me.
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing. Thank y’all for everything.”
“I’ll be back first thing in the morning but Velma is here until seven.”
I nodded and they both left the room. For the remainder of the day, doctors and nurses were in and out of my room.
I was able to eat my first meal in months which was only a few bites because that’s all my stomach could take.
Now that it was nighttime and the nurse had helped me up to use the bathroom, sadness hit me out of nowhere.
I anxiously paced the floor, going from the tall window in my room back to the bed.
Small pieces of things were coming to me slowly.
I wasn’t sure why but the only thing that kept running across my mind was a party that I had went to.
The feeling of me not belonging there and wanting to leave but something was stopping me.
Standing to the window with my arms crossed over my chest, I stared off into the traffic trying my best to figure shit out.
My head was starting hurt and right as I was about to pass out, the night nurse walked in and helped me back in the bed.
“You cannot do too much. I prefer you to stay in bed so I don’t have to write up any incident reports please.”
“Can you tell me why I’m here?”
“This is my first night working with you. You’ll have to talk to someone else. I did see in your report that the police would be here to see you in the morning.”
“Why?”
“Not sure. What I want you to do is get some rest. Please call me if you want to get out of bed. Your equilibrium is still not where it needs to be.”
“Yes ma’am.”
I ended up just forcing myself to go to sleep. It was either that or make myself sick from trying to get my brain to do something that it wasn’t ready to do. Maybe the nurse could give me the information I needed in the morning. Something was telling me I had done some shit to land me here.
“Good morning, Merciiii,” Stacy opened the blinds in my room. The warm sun beamed right in my face making me squint and pull the covers over my head.
“It’s too early.”
“Actually, I let you sleep a lot later than I should. You were supposed to be gone down for an MRI, but I told them to let you sleep.”
“An MRI?”
“They just want to scan your brain to make sure you didn’t have any damage and see where if your memory loss is long term. Do you remember anything?”
“I remember a party I was at, but I’m not sure if it was here or not.”
Okay, so while we get you showered and stuff, I can tell you what I know. It may be hard for you but I do think you should know. Anyone that survived what you went through deserves to know their story.”
She ran me a hot shower which was something that my body really needed. I was left to be nothing but skin and bones. The only thing that could be seen on me was my protruding belly. My titties were saggy, my ass was dropping, and I just looked disgusting.
“I know you’re looking at yourself in disbelief but trust me, you’ll gain all your weight back before you leave. I’ll make sure of it.”
“Why is this hole here?” I ran my finger across the indent on my shoulder. I didn’t notice it yesterday but then again; I didn’t stand in front of a mirror and pick myself apart either.
“You were shot. It went in and out. There was no damage from the gunshot wound which is why we were led to believe the shooter kept you around for a few days and brutally raped you. The person not only raped you repeatedly but beat you as well. I’m not sure why the person was so angry.
The night you were brought here, we didn’t think you would make it. ”
I blinked and let the tears roll down my face.
“You were unresponsive when a little girl found you floating in a nearby park river. She alerted her parents and called 911. This person wanted you dead, Merci. We see a lot of stuff around here but this by far was one of the scariest moments. I got connected to you and the baby growing inside of your stomach. I knew if I kept pushing for you that you would pull through. Even if it would’ve cost me my job. ”
“My baby is a rape baby? It’s not from a boyfriend or anything? I can’t…I can’t keep this baby. How am I supposed to look at it every day knowing that it’s from someone that tried to kill me?”
“You have options, and we can discuss those too but right now we got to get you bathed and dressed before people start barging their way in here. The police got wind that you’re up and they want to run all in your face with questions.
If you don’t feel comfortable then you don’t have to tell them anything. ”
“But I don’t know anything. Besides what you just told me.”
“This party you were talking about. Do you remember any of your background?”
“I think I was here because the trees were beautiful. I don’t recall seeing them anywhere else.”
“That’s a start.”
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