The White Room
Laying on a single bed surrounded by white walls and one plasma screen, with a remote in my right hand flipping through random channels, at the end I settle with an episode from Scrubs. I am stuck in this four cornered room with colorful flowers and trays of chocolate that I didn't have the desire to taste. The nurse walks in with a smile while holding a long injection needle; I smile back and a few minutes later the surgeon walks in and asks me a few questions in order to execute the surgical operation which is due in a couple of hours. He said "I am sure there are hundreds of questions you want to ask me right now, so here I am to answer!" Many thoughts run through my head since it was my first time to get surgery. I don’t know why but at that moment I decided not to ask any questions and just go ahead with the surgery. I look at the clock and its 10 am on June 15th; all I am doing right now is waiting for my turn to come up. All of a sudden three nurses walk in pushing a moving bed towards me, one nurse places a plastic head cover on me and says that it's time to enter the E.R. I thought to myself why didn't I ask any questions when I had the chance to! It's too late now. I enter the room and find three surgeons one of them was a tall lady. At the other end I see four nurses all covered up holding pens and clipboards. I hope they are not interns! Images from SCRUBS were playing in my head. Everything is moving by so fast! The female surgeon asked me to count to ten while the other surgeon places his hand on my forehead and started reading a verse from the Quran. My eyes wide open "ok I have one question though" and I dozed off.
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