The Truth About Nora Jones

The hospital

*beep* *beep* beep*

I calmly open my eyelid, they are heavy, but light as a feather at the same time! I look around me, I can see a man wearing a blue fit and a security mask, probably from Covid-19. At my left side are my grandparents, with palpable nervosity. My father talks with a woman some meters away from me. I don't recognize faces, only colors. I only know few details about their physical appearance..

- Doctor! She woke up! Doctor, your patient, Nora Jones, woke up! says the familiar voice of my grandmother

It't at that one moment that my sight becomes less blurred and I can feel sensations. Like breathing, like feeling the objects next to me. The doctor comes closer to me and agrees to Denise's words.

- Hi Nora, how are you feeling? asks the doctor

- I don't know. I respond to him with a weak voice

- Ok, he continues, noting in his notebook, Do you remember the event that brought you here today?

- Yes, a little.

- Tell me everything you remember, little girl.

Grandparents. Why are they are again? Oh, yes, we came to visit them. Yes.

- I was at my grandparents, I say

The doctor doesn't add anything. He keeps on writing before talking again.

- So, Nora, you're in the hospital because you fainted. It wasn't that bad but your family made a great choice getting there. You're here since a day for now, a long record for someone with anemia. Do you know what anemia is?

I move my head to make a "no", glancing at him and listening to his words.

- Well, anemia is an abnormal drop of hemoglobin in your blood. he starts, The symbols are not eating a lot, or a weak level of iron in your body. Anemia can cause to exhaustion and fainting, because your body needs nutritions. Some of the symbols can also be an overdose of work, not helping the body to rest. Do you think you know which symbols you may have?

- All of them. I'm really depressed since my mom's death. She was important for me, I had great memories and I loved her, I cry

- I can understand that, Nora, I can see on your case that she died exactly a year ago. I'm sorry, I truly am.

- Don't be sorry! You have nothing to do with it says Marc, come, let's all get a group hug!

I come closer to my grandparents, crying about my mom.

- We are here for me, Nora, exclaims my father, taking the place of my grandparents. There will always be someone, even when we are not here, we are in your heart...