People say that everything happens for a reason so when I punched my nurse there was a reason. It isn’t expected of me to do this but when it comes to needles and tubes going up my nose I wasn’t too thrilled. Nurse Kim escorted me to my pre op room to prepare for my knee surgery. I’m not necessarily scared of the doctors or nurses but I just watched a whole season of Grey’s Anatomy before my surgery so in my mind, the simplest surgery can end in death with one mistake. The gown was very plain and open in the back, not the cutest thing in the world but it does come with some pretty snazzy socks. Chills crept upon me when I saw my nurse brought in the equipment for an IV. The clear slushy substance hung from a stand with wires going
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I really don’t like when people call me dear. My head sharply turns to my mom as she nods. Here we go...Nurse Kim pulls out this thick needle thing with a plastic blue object attached to it. “Hang your left arm over the chair”, instructed my nurse. She tied this elastic band around my arm so tight I could barely feel my arm. Are they trying to have my arm fall of?! Nurse Kim examines my veiny hand. “Perfect,” she said with a creepy voice, “I’m going to put your IV in dear.” “You’re putting the what in where with who?!”, I exclaimed. My dad got up to calm me down. “It won’t hurt McKennah, only a slight pinch”, said my dad. “That’s what they all say”, I snarked back. I’m not putting up a fight...yet. I’m saving my energy for something worse than this and I know something worse is up the road of terror, I can see it in their eyes they’re hiding something from …show more content…
I eyed the object closely when I noticed it was just a Sharpie, Dr. Wolter’s uncapped the sharpie and initialed his initials on my left leg. The cold marker seeped through my skin as I wrote my initials next to my surgeons. I started to doze off but not in a sleepy way. My legs became still as my hands and feet tingled. My doctor mumbled to my parents as I when I saw little stars in the air. All at once I heard a loud noise screeching in my ears with my head pounding while I witnessed a bright light for 3 seconds, a dark pitch black space crept upon
I really don’t like when people call me dear. My head sharply turns to my mom as she nods. Here we go...Nurse Kim pulls out this thick needle thing with a plastic blue object attached to it. “Hang your left arm over the chair”, instructed my nurse. She tied this elastic band around my arm so tight I could barely feel my arm. Are they trying to have my arm fall of?! Nurse Kim examines my veiny hand. “Perfect,” she said with a creepy voice, “I’m going to put your IV in dear.” “You’re putting the what in where with who?!”, I exclaimed. My dad got up to calm me down. “It won’t hurt McKennah, only a slight pinch”, said my dad. “That’s what they all say”, I snarked back. I’m not putting up a fight...yet. I’m saving my energy for something worse than this and I know something worse is up the road of terror, I can see it in their eyes they’re hiding something from …show more content…
I eyed the object closely when I noticed it was just a Sharpie, Dr. Wolter’s uncapped the sharpie and initialed his initials on my left leg. The cold marker seeped through my skin as I wrote my initials next to my surgeons. I started to doze off but not in a sleepy way. My legs became still as my hands and feet tingled. My doctor mumbled to my parents as I when I saw little stars in the air. All at once I heard a loud noise screeching in my ears with my head pounding while I witnessed a bright light for 3 seconds, a dark pitch black space crept upon