The Anonymous Patient

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"Are you OK? Can you hear me? Hello?"

His eyes were shut and his face was pale. Blood dripped from his nose down the back of his throat causing him to cough. Blood spewed from his mouth covering his white T-shirt. He laid motionless on the floor.

He was in a hospital when he woke, he felt numb all over. A nurse spoke to him, first with the pleasantries; "how are you feeling?" and "its beef casserole for dinner is that OK?" and then "are you warm enough?". The pleasantries were soon dispensed with and the real questions began. "How old are you? Whats your name? Where do you live?" Question after question, they wanted to know everything. He gave false answers, a false name, a false address, he also lied that he was eighteen."Is there anyone we can contact?" the nurse finally asked "No. No one" he responded sternly. The nurse seemed dissatisfied with this response but didn't query the matter further. The doctor came to see him. He was prescribed pills, they looked like tic tacs, but instead of emitting a sweet mint flavour they tasted of nothing, like cheap worn out chewing gum. He was instructed to take daily doses, which he did. The doctor explained to him what they were for and how long he would need them, but he took no notice.

His hospital life continued, he was soon bored by its monotony. He spent most of his time watching the TV, the channel was decided by consensus amongst the patients on the ward, rarely was his favoured choice shown. Pills twice a day, morning and night. and food three times a day; breakfast at eight, lunch at one and dinner at five-thirty. The food was appalling and although the meals changed the flavour did not. The doctor, who rarely came to see him, explained that without anywhere to go and without anyone to care for him it would be some time before he would be discharged.

He was trapped, like a fly in a spiders web. No one to turn to, no family, no friends, no future.

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