So... Hospital Shenanigans
Look guys, I can't sleep.
And it's 2:04 in the morning.
So I might as well tell you what happened after I logged off Tumblr in the morning.
I spent around six hours just scrolling through Pinterest to look for new recipes to apologise to Mom after all the hassle. She didn't deserve to see me, attached to four devices, struggling to breathe. After I got bored (again), I took a nap, only to wake up to see Claire kissing my forehead and talking in a very quiet voice to Steve, telling him to shut up.
What happened next still makes me snort, even if it got us all in very big trouble.
I sat up, and Toby and Claire immediately rushed to hug me, Claire berating me and telling me that if I ever did that to her again, she would kill me and then resurrect me. Toby was laughing and talking about how much I looked like a corpse. Steve and Eli were also there, chattering excitedly about what they had been doing while I was unconscious, and Douxie was just grinning at me like a maniac. We spent the next hour chatting about everything in general, and then, I said this, by accident, to them while they were in the middle of arguing about the Spiderman comics.
"I'm bored."
Everyone turns to look at me, shocked. I laugh, then tell them to forget about it and lie back, expecting them to continue arguing. Douxie, however, like the future master wizard and brother of mine does, smirks at me.
Immediately, I know that we're all going to get into very big trouble, and that I was going to get murdered.
But I still ignored the feeling anyway.
He asked me if I was attached to anything.
I told him no.
He then asked me if I wanted to go for a walk.
I told him sure.
In reality, I shouldn't have.
But when you're used to spending your everyday fighting for your life, it turns out that sitting on a hospital bed, doing nothing, is extremely boring.
Douxie got me onto a wheelchair, called for the others to follow him, and pushed me around the hospital, going for a walk, since I was sure that if I started walking so quickly again, I would definitely faint. All over again.
We were just talking, just being ourselves, when we reached the hospital café. I was not so hungry, but the rest were. So we sat down at a table, and continued talking, until Douxie got the food. Then, they all continued eating, while I was getting used to my surrounding, when Steve raises a slightly concerning, but actually very valid question.
"How fast can Lake's wheelchair go?"
Douxie, Eli and Toby were extremely eager to test that out. Claire, however, not so much.
I reassured her that if we all got in trouble, I would make sure she'd be exempt from it because she didn't want to at all do what we were planning to do.
I positioned myself in the middle of the corridor we were in, and Steve gripped the handles of my wheelchair.
And then, he started running.
We spent the next half an hour running around the hospital, two or three of us sitting on the wheelchair (when I wasn't on the wheelchair, Douxie carried me on his back), and we watched as the wheelchair went incredibly fast. However, when it came to Steve's and Eli's turn, Toby went way too fast than his legs could go.
And they managed to crash the wheelchair into a trolley full of lasagna, into a poor, extremely unlucky dinner lady.
We spent the next hour getting chewed out by Mom after she found us desperately trying to get back to the hospital ward I was meant to be in- Douxie and Steve especially got told off more than anyone else- Douxie for even suggesting we go on a walk, and Steve for being the one to ask the question of how fast my wheelchair could go. Toby, Steve and Eli had to go home covered in food, and Claire and Douxie stayed behind, both the wizards laughing about what had happened. And then...
It was time for my hearing test.
I was taken to a soundproof room and left to sit on a bed, with headphones covering my ears. The doctor who was testing me asked me the general questions, before getting onto telling me what the test consisted off. She said the device the headphones were connected to were going to send me different sound and pitches into one ear at a time, and I had to press a really weird looking green button as to whether I could hear it or not.
We first started off with my left ear- the ear that wasn't as affected. I could hear most of the sounds- only three of them I couldn't- which worried me slightly, but at least I could hear. The doctor said that was a good sign.
Then, we got to my right ear- the ear that was affected.
I could only hear one of the sounds on the headphones- which told me that I was basically fucked.
After the hearing test, I was sent back to the hospital room, where Claire and Douxie were waiting anxiously for me, and I told them that I couldn't hear anything out of my right ear, which sent Claire panicking, and Douxie having to calm his best friend down, and give me a reassuring hug.
Then, later in the day, we got the news.
I had- not surprisingly- failed the hearing test.
My left ear was almost fine- I should have been able to hear two of those noises, but they weren't too worried.
However, in my right ear, it seems like I am almost completely deaf.
When Mom heard, she gasped.
When Claire heard, she gawped.
When Douxie heard, he paled.
When I heard, however, I laughed.
Everyone turned to look at me, as I continued to laugh, and laugh, and laugh. Douxie practically asked the doctors if they had given me anything to addle my mind.
I told him that I laugh whenever I hear bad news. Apart from deaths, obviously.
Mom then went on to explain how it had turned into a coping mechanism for me.
And, now, we come to the final bit of my story- it really does feel like a story, you know.
I'm getting hearing aids. In both ears.
And if I don't recover, I have to get cochlear implants.
@seekerofblades I really am too young for hearing aids, aren't I?
Seems like my right ear may not recover. Ever.
Apparently, according to Douxie, who left just two hours ago, I'm in denial.
I honestly think I'm in the bargaining stage.
The doctors will inform us more about what's going to happen to me later today. Until then, it's more Tumblr and anxiously searching up on Google about deafness.
Jim Lake Jr here, signing off.
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