Shawnee-may Green

Stranger From Within

Out of all my senses sight was the last one to come back to me; I could hear a murmur of voices, feet shuffling and doors opening and closing. It smelt like bleach…pine? No…lemon…I inhaled again definitely lemon, there was a metallic tang…and stale food. I licked my bottom lip, it was dry and cracked, I could taste coffee and…chicken? My stomach growled; I went to clutch it when a sharp pain zipped up my left arm; I grabbed it with my right hand. There was a tube on my arm I traced it up with my fingers and frowned…it was in the nook of my arm…a needle…my eyes shot open wide and I blinked a few times before looking down at my arm, then to the bag hanging off the stand. I frowned as I scanned the hospital room…there was nothing in the room except a tv, chair, side table, a window, a couple of machines I was attached too a door to the bathroom and the bed I laid on. I stared at the machines, watching the lines go up and down as my heartbeat…I tried to remember what happened last night, but nothing. I looked at my arms not a mark on them, I pulled the blankets back and looked at my legs…again nothing. My body felt stiff like I had not moved for a week; I threw my legs over the side of the bed and grabbed the IV stand before making may way to the bathroom. I glanced around looking for personal affects, I went back into the room and went to the side table…nothing but a bible. I frowned as I sat on the edge of the bed, glancing around the room again. I reached and grabbed the chart at the end of the bed, glanced at my wrist and turned the hospital bracelet…all it had on it was Jane Doe. I looked at the chart, again it had Jane Doe where my name was supposed to be; no date of birth, no next of kin, no previous medical history at all. There was a time and date of when I was admitted, it read 11:24PM 08/04/2018. I read it again and frowned, did I go to a party last night? Did I get alcohol poisoning? Was I drugged? Where were my parents? Was I robbed? Is that why I do not have anything with me? I put the chart back and headed back to the bathroom for a shower.