"Mr. and Mrs. Matthews?" The short blonde haired woman from behind the hospital counter calls out. My parents run in haste towards the woman.
"Yes, is she okay?! is Alison okay?!" My dad asks in an apprehensive shout.
"Yes sir, your daughter is fine. She just got out of surgery she made it out okay but we had a few difficulties... will you please follow me? My parents turn to look at each other. And from experience their facial expressions say they're in filled with fear and desperation that I'm okay... I know that look because I've seen it over 3 times in the past year. My name is Alison Matthews, I am 16 years old brown haired, green eyed girl ,and I have Thyroid Cancer. I was diagnosed a year ago, Thyroid Cancer is Cancer of the lungs... Lucky me, my shitty lungs suck at being lungs. I just got out of my third surgery to remove more of my Thyroid gland. And may I say it is NOT FUN! As I am laying in my hospital bed my parents and my doctor, doctor Scott come in.
"Mr. and Mrs. Matthew, take a seat." Doctor Scott says ruefully. As my parents start to take a seat the doctor starts to explain what happened during my surgery, I tried to listen and concentrate but I couldn't help but get distracted my the loud music coming from the room next to mine. Since this was a Children's Hospital we have kids staying here long term and some short term, the staff try to make us "kids" feel at home here so they basically let us do anything we want to help us feel comfortable. But beside the overly loud music coming from the other side of the wall, I am trying to listen to doctor Scott explain what exactly happened to me during surgery, from what I heard he said something like "In surgery, Alison's heart stopped, it stopped for about a minute and then we got it beating again. Other than that the surgery went good. We didn't get out everything that we needed to so we will have to schedule another up coming surgery in a couple months."
Oh, yippee... another surgery.
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By the time I wake up Its 11:30 pm and visiting hours are over so I guess I'm stuck here alone watching sponge bob and eating hospital Jell-O... Ew. I press the call button for my nurse to come in my room, my nurse's name is nurse Jean but she told me to just call her Hailey. Hailey is a skinny 5'4 brunett, has green eyes and a smile to die for! When she arrives to my room she knocks on the open door frame, as I signal her to come in.
"Well good morning to you miss Matthews" she says jokingly knowing its not even 12 am yet.
"Haha yeah okay, hey Hailey do you mind turning Sponge Bob on the TV? Sorry I'd do it myself but for some reason some dumb ass velcroed the remote to the TV across the room, And I sorta can't take two steps without completely being out of breath."
"Yes of course I'll do that for you, and hey! that dumb ass would be me." she says humorously. "For some reason that's were they told all the nurses to put the remotes... And here Alison to help with your "sucky lung" problem, your words not mine. We have the Oxygen tank for you to wheel around."
"Greattttt" I say relieved but bothered. "The small tubes that go around my ears and into my nose?" I complain, "Whatever at least ill be able to breathe right?" I say with a slight hesitantly.
Hailey helps hook me up to the Oxygen tank and then tells me to "watch some TV and relax" then leaves the room quietly saying "goodnight."
