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People gathered around the car,some were there to help,other, well.... not really, just one of those who prefer to steal from the victim rather than to help. Believe you me ,it happens in this part of the world a lot.
In this part of the world also, getting an ambulance to an accident scene is usually a big task, and so it was as i was coming to, while still in the vehicle,i couldn't feel my legs nor my hands, in fact, i realized  couldn't feel anything from my neck downward, and i begin to wonder if  i must have been beheaded in accident? Maybe, something cut off my head that is why I am able to see and barely breathe, but can't feel my whole body.But , realising is not possible, seeing as i can hear people discussing on what to do about her, for the driver was already out of the vehicle safe and sound, except for a little scratch on his hand, so i realized i can't be dead, besides, there was no white light anywhere.
I began to ask them to help me out of the vehicle, i could not stand being in it any minute more and so in that still and quite voice, i was asking for help.  But, all they did was stand by the car looking at me, while the driver whose name I can't remember stood there visibly shaken from it all, knowing he was the cause of it all I'm sure is why, but again i wonder just why was i noticing that about him when i was still stuck in a vehicle,i couldn't come out from even though I desperately want too.
Another car had stopped to help out, with no ambulance in sight, no help from anywhere, this guy's help the driver pull me out of the vehicle from the drivers side, cause it was my side of the car that had the worst hit,they both took me to their car, believe me now, the thought of a broken neck or back was not taken to consideration, all this good Samaritans were after,was to get to the nearest hospital, my eyes wide open with pain's all over, I was sitted on the lap of one of the guys, the driver in the accident with me was a shaking mess, he was so scared, like a deer caught in the headlight, and yes ,he was, literally speaking, the other vehicles occupants are taking things further insisting he pays for the damages caused on their vehicle .

The traffic on the road at that hour of the day was terrible, closing hours were Always like that, Little by little as we approach i saw as they passed my area, and all I could do was ask the man holding me if my right hand that was looking like a chair was my eyes playing tricks on me, and he will always answer yes, don't worry it's just your eyes.
Reaching the first hospital, they refused to take me in , insisting that they first get a police report, by then it should be approaching 8pm or so I thought as it so dark outside already, they later said to bring me in , not even bringing a stretcher to put me on I was carried by those men inside the maybe emergency room and placed on a stretcher, while i was lying on the stretcher in that waiting room, my face covered in blood cause of the glass cut on my forehead and another at the back of my skull, all they were doing was arguing, nobody was trying to help me, as i laid there crying, I got tired and called on the nurse asking her " auntie, do you love me?" I don't even know her, but i just wanted someone to atleast notice me and stop with the Arguing, the nurse answer " yes, I do" then i said" if so, please clean my eyes" that was when the nurse actually went to get a towel and a stainless bowl with water to clean up the blood on my face . about 30 min. After, they were asked to move me to another hospital, i really can't say what they have discussed, they even had to live me and go to the director in charge to plead with him to allow his doctors treat me, but it was all in vain, with no other choice we all five left to another.
On reaching this federal government hospital, I was taken in to the emergency room, and there doctors immediately started to attend to me, trying to straighten my wrist with wood and I think carton, before the next morning when the X-ray guys and orthopaedic  doctor will arrive to sort it out..
They doctors taking care of me that I later found out were still student doctors, interning with the hospital, kept asking me questions while I try to answer them, I was crying for my mum, a catheter was put in my vagina, to control urine, I was put on drip, and so on, but nothing concrete could be done till an X-ray was gotten to see the severity of it all, and I had to wait till the morrow . Those guys I came with said I fainted in between, but I don't remember and I guess that's why is called fainted, but I came to later to see my mum and our neighbor by my stretcher side, and.... she was a crying mess as i was, and I was so scared, but all I was asking was for her to confirm that i should be allowed to resume school the following week.
So my stay of about half  year or more started....

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