Prompt Me Senseless - 2. Nothingness

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I stared around the room, blankly. I had no sense of reality. This was like a dream. My eyes took a while to adjust to the light and the aesthetic whiteness of the room. The sudden barrage of doctors who flurried into the room made me wish for that peaceful nothingness than I had previously known.

There was a throbbing pain in my ear and with that, the occasional bleeping of the machines and the coils of rubbery tubes that surrounded me were raising hell with my anxiety. I wanted to be nowhere near that god-forbidden room at that point in time.

Where was I? Why was I here? What was the cause of this?

Why was I alone?

I refused to go through another second of the self-pity that I was feeling and thus, closed my eyes and hoped for a repeat of the previous state, but the doctors were having none of that.

As soon as I could close my lids, a man with the blackest hair possible and the deepest dimples said to me: “Mr. Levi? If you can hear and understand me blink.”

I acquiesced and gave the winningest smile I could conjure up as a bonus. Even in face of tragedy, I was still desperately seeking for a life partner. Pathetic? Touché.

He didn’t return my smile. Rejection wasn’t new to me so screw it.

“Mr. Levi, I’m Dr. Carlos Braithwaite. You’ve been in a stroke-induced coma caused by a blood clot in your brain for the past 15 years.” He said.

And maybe it was the drugs, I don’t know but the mellow feeling that overtook me after he said those words failed to allow me to give an intelligible response. Dr. Braithwaite, however, did not push any further.

I said nothing for the next half an hour as various doctors came in, ran test and then left. I expected family, closeness, but I got none. Then a curly haired Hispanic woman turned up.

“Mr. Levi, finally, oh my God!” she shouted. She was a nurse.

I knew nothing about this woman except of her outward appearance but it felt nice to know that I could solicit such a response from her. I smiled.

”You’ve been here since my Tyde was still in my womb, and now she’s starting high school!”

I wanted to speak to her, but no words came. My facial muscles went numb and I fell back into nothingness.

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