B4-16

I was admitted as B4-16.
I had no fancy about hospital.
The ward was quiet and calm.
I put on the standard checker clothes of public hospital.
I became a patient.
My parents were anxious, I was anxious, three times of anxieties.

A doctor came and tried to comfort us. The operation was a must. such to put the broken pieces into the right places. The most important thing was to be fearless about pain. (yes, to be fearless.)
Doctors and nurses in this ward were very different from those that I often saw. I had always had the impression that nurses were being harsh to people.

So an alabaster officer came to make a plaster support for my right leg.

But no operation for the night because my foot was swollen. Terribly swollen.

"Bed rest," the doctor instructed the nurse.

The nurses put up the bars on both sides of the bed.

I was not allowed to leave the bed.

I had to learn to live a new lifestyle.