Everything finally came into focus as I ran out of breath to scream with. There were four strangers standing around me with looks of shock and alarm on their faces. I got my breath back and asked, "Who are you, and is there anything you can do about the pain?" A fifth person came into the room and one of the people told them to bring 20 cc's of morphine stat, whatever that means.
"Janet, you don't remember us?" another of them said.
"Is my name Janet?" I asked, realizing for the first time that I didn't even know my own name.
"Yes," the same person replied looking as though they were about to cry.
"What's the last thing you remember?" asked the person who had ordered the morphine.
"Bang," I said.
"You remember the explosion then," they clarified.
"I remember the sound, the colors red and yellow, and the pain. Which I'm still experiencing by the way," I replied. The fifth person came in again and handed the one asking the questions a big needle. For some reason I felt as though I should be afraid, but I wasn't. The person who I had labeled 'Doctor' in my head because it was something to call them other than person stuck my with the needle and I felt a cold liquid moving through my veigns soothing the pain away.
"Is there a reason why I keep calling you doctor in my head?" I asked. 'Doctor' smiled.
"That's my job, I'm a doctor," they said.
"Also I feel like there are more pronouns than the ones I'm using in my head," I said.
"What pronouns are you using?" Doctor asked.
"They, it, you, and me," I said.
"Well there's he, she, and we," the other person who had been talking to me said.
"I don't know what those mean, and will you all please tell me your names, cause I'm getting really tired of calling you all 'person'," I said.
"You can call me mother, him father, and her Amanda," they replied.
"Him... her. Are these more pronouns?" I asked.
"Yes, they refer to gender," mother said.
"Gender, I think I'm unable to tell gender, because I can't tell which pronoun to use for you," I said. Before she could reply to that I was somewhere else entirely.
