I woke up to the deafening sound of a beeping machine. It was so loud that I fell off the bed I was on while covering my ears. At the same time, over a hundred different scents hit me so strongly I felt like sneezing. Medicine, urine, latrine, diesel, petroleum , perfumes, sweat .... all mixed together... I inhaled it all. My ears picked several sounds distance away, I could even hear the heartbeats of everyone in my hospital room.
Claire was the first one to be alerted by my fall.
"Are you alright?.." she ran towards me "get the doctor, John" she said to my dad who was on the verge of breaking up.
"I'm alright," I stood up by the help of Claire. I still felt quite dizzy with all that influx of scents and noise.
"How long was I out?" I asked sitting back on my bed
"It's Thursday" Clai
