feces out onto the cart and the floor and herself. This made her throw up again and through her eyes, to dry to cry she saw the a face come to the door.
The face was masked (probably against the odors) and pointed a hose at her and then shot icy cold water at her. All of the bodily fluids she had lost came spraying into her face and then diluted to just water. When it stopped she was alone and could hear the whimpering and cries from all around her cell like room “My god where am I !? She lay there wet and the cool water started to warm against what was left of her burned skin for what seemed like hours. Finally another face in a mask came in and started hooking her up to iv’s and machines, stabbing and poking relentlessly at her veins. a mask was lowered over her nose and mouth and she started to gag again. She choked and gagged and the person-- no it was a woman-- grabbed her face roughly and looked into her eyes so fiercely it sent chills through her burned body .The voice said “YOU are DONE puking!” She tried to take a deep breath and stop the gag.Then then mask lowered over her face again and slowly she felt some relief from the pain and fear. She started to get drowsy and could feel herself being wheeled down the hall again.
Whatever drugs they were pumping into her gave enough relief from the pain so she could move her head and see into the barred rooms going down the hall. What she saw was hideous. Pathetic remains of what was once human-still alive but no longer in one piece and certainly not still human. They were writhing and moaning in pain and and their defromed faces showed pleading eyes. She tried to scream but still wasn’t capable.The door at the end of the hall opened to a brightly lit room with walls of metal shelves. The shelves were covered with medical instruments and tools ( NOT medical) . Other shelves had large jars of liquid with various human organs and parts suspended like a horror display at a circus freak show.
Her eyes widened in horror and the slits broke open in stabbing pain she could feel even through the drugs she had been given. Her mind screamed in pain and terror and then everything faded and she slept.
4 floors above the girl’s weeping parents shook hands with Mrs. Slater the chief of staff at St Benedict's Hospital. They thanked her and weeped. They had just signed papers giving permission for a special team of doctors to use a new but experimental treatment on their daughter Patty.
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