Tina.

'Beep - good morning'

I stamped my morning commute key and walked in.

'Hmmmmmm... am I late?

I looked up at the clock and thankfully it was 9:09.

I still had about a minute to go before I had to meet with the hospital patients, so I thought I was at least early,

BAM!

The 9 on the digital clock immediately turned into a 10.

' Yikes! Oh no. !!!!'

I rushed to my office, quickly greeted my colleagues formally, and quickly got dressed.

Whirring, whirring, whirring.

As soon as I walked through the door, the printing presses started up and Tyson, the foreman, started calling each of us by name.

"Rookie!

'Yes!

"Room 13.

"James!

'Yep!

'Room 1!

Names were called, charts were handed out, and people began to leave.

'Chanyeol!

They called my name.

I was just turning on the power to my medical suit top when I made eye contact with Tyson. Tyson sighed loudly for all to hear, then flipped to my page and started calling out the next nurses. The room seemed to laugh at me.

'Ugh. . damn.'

Ready to leave, I glanced at the chart on the desk with my name on it.

'Today's patient is ... Today's patient is ...'

I flipped to the back of the chart.

"Room 3... Tina!

I bolted out the door and started running down the hallway to room 3. Tina, my first patient of the day, what will she be like?

I was half-excited and half-disappointed.

As I opened the door to the room, I paused when I realized that the room was unusually large. The number on the door read 3.

What is this, a private room? Is it for a friend who is seriously injured?

Click!

After a moment's hesitation, I turned around and saw Tyson standing there. Across the hall.

Tyson was halfway to his office and banged a nameless stick he was holding against the wall. He seemed to be warning me. I glanced around quickly and realized I was the only nurse who hadn't gone in yet.

I took a deep breath and said, 'Don't think about it! Don't think about it! (?)'

Drat!

I opened the door and walked in. The unlit room was filled with silence and the

I could hear my heart rate in the silence.

I said I wouldn't think of anything else, but the figure behind the machine was either a vegetative monster lying there, or the body of a captured dolphin... ah. .

Enough. I spoke up.

"Tina, this is the nurse. May I come in with the lights on?'

There was no answer.

'I'm going in with the lights on..!!'

Click. Click... purr.... I turned on the light and slowly walked in.

The first thing I saw was Tina's feet. They were sticking out of the futon, and they were shaped like something. And as I moved forward a little bit, I saw her hands wrapped in bandages, and her face was half covered in bandages...

Snap.

I dropped my ballpoint pen and bent down to pick it up. I didn't want her to see my surprise. Rubbing my eyes, I stood up again.

(My gaping face)

'... Tina I got to see you for the first time today, maybe I'll be staying here next to you for the rest of the month, what do you think ?

'...'

' Okay, I'll start by checking the equipment values I need to do.'

I bent down and proceeded to replace the body scanner and ringer. As I worked, I looked back at the chart, and my jaw dropped again as I realized that the chart clearly indicated third-degree burns all over the body, so why was only a bandage applied?

Finally, I had to power cycle the pulse scanner. Most of the equipment here was 20 years old, many no longer in production, and at first glance it looked like an old television.

Click. Pfft.

Tina was on her back in bed, watching me. Maybe she's fascinated that I'm a dinosaur.

I sat back down.

'Hey Tina, I just finished, and if you're uncomfortable, tell me anything!

...

'. . . maybe put some curtains in the room...'

I suddenly shouted out loud.

'No !!!! it hurts' Tina suddenly screamed and started sobbing.

When I heard that, I burst into tears and felt like I had been hit in the heart with a hammer. I can't tell you how hard it is to look at a child like Tina and realize that she reminds me of my old self, but my heart was burning. .

I didn't realize that burns can be so painful.

It was my mistake to act so quickly.

I didn't know what to do with Tina, who was still screaming. So I pressed the doctor's call button with my hand. Maybe that was what I was supposed to do. I didn't sigh.

I just bent my knees in a semi-nervous, eager-to-do-anything-if-asked posture and said to Tina, hoping someone would run over and tell me what to do.

'Tina, hang in there... it's going to be okay! Tina!'

The door opened with the sound of running down the hallway. There was a doctor, Dr. Tyson, and two nurses.

Dr. Tyson pointed to me and said, "You.

'You.

get out.

I knew there was nothing

there was nothing

that there was nothing I could do.