VISIT

(05/12/2006)

Its been a while when some one came to visit me. I have been hospitalized for almost a month now due to my operation on my stomach for tumor. And there she is coming to visit me. She knocks on the door and I ask her to enter. She brings a plastic bag. I can tell that she has bought some fruits as it is transparent. It was apple and that was my favorite. Now lets go back to her. Her name is Suci, and she is my colleague from the same place we work at. She is from the office side, and I am from the store side. Well she is a caring lady, who is always ready to help in any possible way. That’s why we are very close friends since the day I joined the office. She comes in and ask me how I was doing. I reply by saying, “ Never felt better than now.” She places the fruit beside my bed and I ask her to take a seat, which was beside my bed. She sits down and ask me if I had my lunch. Which I replied by saying the food sucks over here. She tells me this is better if I want to recover fast. She sees the food on the table and get hold of it. She scoops a spoon full and blows it to simmer it a bit. And she asks me to open my mouth. I tried to resist as I have been sick of eating the tasteless food for almost a month. Then she replies by saying, a bowl of porridge a day, makes you better today. So obey the rules and get out of here. She convenience me and I opened my mouth, as she feeds me. After which I told her I will have it myself. But she insists that she will feed me. There was no point to argue, so I just obeyed her. While feeding me, she tells me how the other colleagues miss me at work and tells me that they have sent a message, for a Speedy Recovery for me. After which I tell her to pass my message too,” I misses them too”. In between Nurse Anna comes in for my medication. She tells Suci that her visit hour is almost over and it was time for my medicine. She hands me the medicine and Suci pours the water in the glass and passes to me. I insert the medicine in my mouth and drank the water. I swallowed the two together, and lay down on bed. Anna leaves the room, but reminds Suci to leave early, as the visiting time was over.
She prepares and tells me she was ready to leave. I thanked her for visiting me. And she made her way to the door and turns back to wave bye to me, and shouts to me for a “Speedy recovery”. I thanked her and waved back to her and tell her not to worry. She proceeds to leave the place and there once again I am lonely. But I knew that people cared and I was thankful to that.
Till then……..