Hospitalization In Medical Shows

Hospitalization for over two weeks is not like the hospitalization they show in movies, or in medical shows. It’s arduous and obnoxious, you don’t see the light of day, IV fluid bags are always changed at the time you’re sleeping and needles are stuck into you daily. That sharp, painful prick in the beginning and the rush of the fluid that you feel as it dashes into your body. And after the constant crying and remembering the pain of that first prick, you find yourself dozing off, as if the IV fluid was an anaesthetic that was used to shut you up. Being nine in a hospital was not easy. Being away from the toys, the bunk bed, the video games, and a big one was being still and not moving. Being still was important so the IV needle didn’t move. …show more content…
First time I got to the hospital, it was because of an intense, bitter, and agonizing pain in my chest. I could feel nothing and see nothing. All I remember was a sharp pain as if the center of my chest was being squeezed. Every breath was like a nightmare re-lived. Everything was blurry as I stared at the car ceiling. I was numb, and I was cold. The lightest of touches were intolerable and each sound I heard was unbearable. Everything around me just seemed to worsen the pain. I got to the hospital and I was considered one of the mystery cases. They didn’t know what I had. The pain would keep coming and going, until one week passed, and they figured out I had pericardial effusion, which is the accumulation of fluid around the heart, which leads to pressure on the heart. After they treated that, the pain maintained its consistency, coming and going, but not as severely. The doctors kept me for another week of tests. They ran loads of tests, with which one of them determined I had