Broken Bones and Broken Hearts
Part One
Beep…Beep…Beep
I look at him. His face is bruised. His eyes are closed. There's blood in his dark curls and a dent in the side of his head. He is hardly breathing. What had they done to him?
Beep…Beep...Beep.
The nurses are always hoping, hoping he will wake. They are hoping that they can turn the life-support off.
I am always waiting, waiting for him to wake. I'm waiting for him to open his eyes and see me.
Beep…Beep…Beep
A nurse walks in. I like her, she understands. She sits beside me and looks me in the eye.
"The doctor would like to talk to you. He promises your friend will get better. He just wants to have your consent before he does anything. He must be pretty important you; you haven't left his side since he arrived."
I nodded slowly, tears in my eyes.
"I'll send the doctor in."
She got up and walked out. She respected me. She had obviously asked the doctor to talk to me first; they normally don't ask for consent. They just go and bugger up the person and leave them for the family to sort out.
Beep…Beep…Beep
A doctor walks in. His face looks grave. He doesn't sit next to me like the nurse, but chooses to use the bed as a barrier and sits next to the life-support.
"Your friend has some serious head injuries. There are some pieces of skull that that could damage his brain, as well as a few cracked ribs and a broken arm. The ribs and the arm are normal issues, but it's the head injuries we're concerned about - we can push the bone back out so his head is more even. He is lucky that he can hide the scar under all that hair!"
He chuckled a little, the sound dull. I didn't get what was so funny about it. There would always be a slight dent in the side of his head. There would always be the scars, all 3 of them. What if they want to cut up more of him?
Beep…Beep…Beep
"Do I have your permission?"
I nodded.
What am I doing? Letting these people cut him open and hammer the inside of his head back to a normal shape. Letting these people take bits of bone out of him. Letting these people make him suffer more than he had already.
Beep…Beep…Beep
