I Woke Up In Darkness Essay, Research Paper
I woke up in complete
darkness with an uncontrollable sharp stabbing pain in my jaw, it was the
middle of the night and I was about ten, I had been sleeping in the top bunk
bed in our Camper Van.? I gave out a
great cry of pain and I could hear my mum coming down the steps from her cabin
bed.? She switched on a light and I
could see blood all over the camper vans lineal floor, I could hear my sister
Jenna complaining about the bright light that had awoken her from her deep
sleep, Mum told her to go back to sleep.?
My mum took me up of the floor and placed me into the bed and I can
remember jumping up and down with the pain.?
Mum took me into the bathroom to clean up the blood and I remember her
holding me on her knee while she sponged my face with a facecloth.? I also remember the bathroom being very
small for two people.?? My stepfather
Davy was also at the door of the bathroom and then he turned to clean up the
blood from the floor.? Mum remarked that
I must have put a tooth through my face, as there was a small hole above my
lip.? When the bleeding stopped Mum put
me back into bed and I was still in a lot of pain but she stayed with me for a
while and comforted me to try and make me go back to sleep.? After some time Mum decided that she wanted to
call the casualty department at Coleraine Hospital to ask their advice on my
fall.? When she came back I told her
that I could feel a hole on the inside of my mouth ? my tongue would have gone
into it.? Mum got a torch and looked in
and said nothing.? I could hear her
going up the steps to the cabin bed and speaking with my stepfather.? Next thing I knew was that Mum was telling
me we were going to Coleraine Hospital.?
My stepfather gathered me up in my sleeping bag and Mum got into the
back seat and I was handed into her.?
Mum was able to hold me while Davy drove the car to the hospital.? At the hospital the nurses were waiting on me and
they put me into a wheelchair and took me into a check up place that had
curtains all around.? The doctor came
soon and they told me that I needed stitches as the inside of my mouth had been
split open.? They cleaned my wound with
a liquid in syringe and this was easily done as I had a hole on the outside of
my face as well.? After cleaning up they
froze my mouth but I was in so much pain already that I did not feel anything
else.? The doctor was stitching my mouth
and he told the nurse that the wound was much bigger that he first thought and
that he would need to put in 6 stitches.?
When he was finished he put two paper stitches on the open cut on my
face.? When he had done that he made me
sit up and I started to vomit.? The
nurse got a dish for me to be sick in and the doctor became very worried.? I remember looking at Mum and Davy and they
looked very worried as well. ?They
allowed me to lie down again for a while to see if I got better but each time
they made me sit up I was sick.? The
doctor then told the nurse to call the radiographer, as I need to have my skull
x-rayed.? t took a while for the lady to come and she was
not very nice to me.? She asked me to get out of the wheelchair and sit on a stool
and place my face into something that held my jaw still and bite on a
straw.? I felt very sick again and I
remember getting very warm and wanting to fall.? Next thing I knew I was on a trolley and the lady was still very
cross with me.? My mum told me that I
had fainted and that the x-ray would be done differently in another room with
me lying on a bed.? This was definitely
much easier to do.? We then waited for
the results and my Mum told me that everything was all clear.? The doctor came to see me again and
explained that he was not prepared to let me go home and that I would have to
stay the night for observation.? Next thing that happened was I could hear an
alarm bell ringing and all the nurses running about and putting on white
plastic aprons.? The nurse came in and
told my Mum that there had been a bad car accident and that they would have to
clear everyone else out of the casualty department to make room.? I could hear another man shouting to get the
theatre ready.?? Another nurse came in
and started to wheel me out on the bed and while that was happening one of the
car crash victims was being wheeled in ? he had a red collar round his neck and
had a lot of blood over him, he was not making any noise.? He was wheeled past us and the ambulance men
were shouting about the theatre.? I was
then wheeled on towards a lift where I was taken to the children?s ward.? It was now 4.00am in the morning as I could
see the clock in the ward.? I had been
at the hospital for two hours.? Mum was
staying with me and I was put into a bed while she sat in a chair.? I woke up and it was daylight ? it was now 6.00am
with the clock and the nurses were speaking to everyone.? They gave me painkillers for my pain through
a syringe into my mouth as by now my face was very swollen and my lips were
closed together except for a small opening.?
I was also very thirsty and mum was able to give me some drink through
another syringe.? The taste of the drink
was not very nice as I could taste blood as well.? I wanted to go home but I had to wait for the doctor to review
me.I looked around the ward and there were another 5
children in the ward, but I can only remember what was wrong with 4 of them.? To my left there was a boy who had fallen
off his bike and he had two broken arms, one broken leg and a gash on his
hand.? He asked my mum how many stitches
I had and she told him 6 inside and two outside, he complained to his mother
that he had no stitches.? Another girl
had swallowed a needle and she kept going away for x-rays.? There was a small boy who had eaten his
grandmother?s sleeping tablets and he was sleeping and had been for 32 hours
but the nurses would keep setting him up and try to make him drink
something.? The fourth person was a girl
who had broken her leg on a slide and her Dad was meant to be going to a
wedding that day.My stepfather arrived with my clothes and a Man
United magazine for me.? I wanted to get
up and get dressed and go home but I still had to wait for the doctor.? He did not come until 1.00pm and I was
getting very fed up.? My mouth and head
were very sore and I wanted to go home to my own bed to sleep.? When the doctor came he asked me to open and
close my mouth but I could not do this, he insisted that I tried, as he needed
to know if my jaw was broken.? I tried
very hard and managed to open and close a wee bit. He then told me that I could
go home, I was very glad.? Mum got me
dressed and we went back to the camper van in Benone but I asked Mum to take me
back to our house.? We packed up the
camper and went home.? It was a lovely
summer?s day and we got visitors but I did not go outside I stayed in the house
and played with my Nintendo.? Mum kept
coming in and out and giving me sprite through a syringe, as I was thirsty all
the time.It took 5 days for the swelling in my mouth to go down
enough for me to be able to eat something.?
Mum had been feeding me soup through the syringe and I managed to eat
some ice cream off a teaspoon.? When the
swelling went down Mum took me to the dentist to check my teeth.? They were okay and he was able to see from
the x-ray that my adult teeth should be okay.?
Every time I go to the dentist he is still able to see the scar in my
mouth even though I can?t.? I do have a
small scar on my face where I had the hole.