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Midnight Ward: Unearthing The Hospital Horror · Shallow Nights: Scary Bedtime Stories

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  I witnessed something in the emergency room that has haunted
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  me every day. I have not shared this with
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  anyone until now. I woke up with a pounding
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  headache and a dry mouth, not an uncommon morning condition for
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  my college days. I looked around the unfamiliar
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  bedroom until I found my phone. It was 11 AM on Sunday.
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  I sat on the edge of the bed and began to put my clothes on.
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  I noticed I wasn't alone. My heart started to race as I
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  attempted to recall the previous night's drunken events.
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  To my relief, I recognized the girl next to me as one of my
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  friends as she rolled over in discomfort from the sunlight.
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  I grabbed my shoe and started to put it on and something was
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  wrong. White hot pain shot up my leg as
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  the inside of my shoe made contact with my big toe.
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  I winced as I forced the Nike sneaker over my swollen foot.
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  I threw my jacket on and made my way to the door.
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  I immediately fell to the floor. As soon as I put pressure on my
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  right foot, I heard a burst of laughter from the girl behind
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  me. Still a little drunk, eh?
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  I replied. No, my foot is killing me.
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  I think something is wrong. What did you do to it?
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  You were fine last night when you were running around
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  downtown? She asked.
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  I recalled the memory of the previous day.
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  Oh, was I running? I got my big toenail removed
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  because of that soccer injury from the intramural game.
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  The doctor told me to take it easy.
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  I must have not thought about it.
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  After I was drinking, my foot was still numb from the
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  anesthetic. Ouch.
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  Well go home and take care of it.
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  She said. I sighed, said goodbye and left.
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  Being a dumb college kid, I limped the entire 2 miles back
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  to the shack. My college roommates and I
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  called home. I immediately sat down and
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  started drinking to curb the hangover.
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  It wasn't until later that night someone decided to talk some
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  sense into me. We had friends over and one girl
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  who happened to be pre Med noticed my limping.
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  What happened to you? She asked.
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  I had minor surgery on my foot and it just hurts.
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  I could barely put my shoe on this morning.
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  I replied. She got closer and looked at my
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  leg. Oh my God, you need to go to the
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  hospital. You see those red streaks
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  running up your leg? That's blood poisoning.
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  She grabbed my arm and rushed me to her car.
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  She was nice enough to drop me off at the front door of the ER
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  Half drunk, I limped inside and was immediately wheeled back to
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  a room. This began the strangest night
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  of my life. The ER of the University
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  Hospital was especially overcrowded.
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  I was put into a room that was already occupied, with a plastic
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  curtain separating me from the other patients.
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  The occupants of the room caught my attention.
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  There was an unconscious man on the other bed, stiff as a board
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  and drained of all color. And next to his bed was a woman,
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  extremely thin, with a sunken face and tattered Gray hair and
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  looked like she hadn't slept in years.
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  She sat frozen in her chair. Standing in front of the couple
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  was a tall male nurse, an EMT, and a police officer.
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  The woman gazed forward with a blank stares.
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  The cop spoke to her. Ma'am, you need to tell us what
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  your boyfriend took. He is going to die, but we may
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  be able to save him if you just tell us.
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  We want to hear it in English. Can you do that?
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  The woman didn't respond. The interrogating went on like
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  that for a while and the woman continued to stare forward with
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  an unwavering gaze. Finally, my nurse came in and
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  began to hook an IV up to me. She spoke.
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  This should help with the infection and will help sober
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  you up a bit. I looked at her and she winked
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  at me. She leaned in and whispered to
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  me. Sorry about the patients next to
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  us, Try and ignore them if you can.
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  She returned to a normal volume. This hospital is pretty crazy
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  tonight. So the resident doctors want me
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  to work on getting this infection out of your foot.
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  You're lucky this didn't reach your lymph nodes.
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  Sepsis is no joke. I'm going to have to make an
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  incision on your toe and drain the infection out.
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  I'll numb you with a local anesthetic first.
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  I grimaced as she stuck the long needle into my toe.
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  I'll be back in 15 minutes when you're numb.
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  The nurse said as she left. I looked out into the hall as
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  she walked out. I noticed another police officer
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  just standing outside and he was talking with a priest.
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  It was not uncommon to see priests around campus.
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  The university was Catholic, but I found it strange that he was
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  right outside my hospital room. The man on the bed next to me
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  had not moved. Maybe he was going to die and
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  they were going to read him his last rites.
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  My heart was racing. I had never witnessed a death
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  before. I turned my gaze from the halt
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  of the curtains next to me. Just behind it was the strange
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  woman, but she was now staring directly at me with her dull
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  Gray eyes. I turned quickly away from her.
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  I felt eyes pierced through me as an icy shiver crept down my
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  spine. My nurse returned and started
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  setting up her prep table. She sterilized her scalpel and
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  my toe and began cutting. I couldn't look.
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  I'm not very good with that sort of thing.
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  Without thinking, I turned my head to the right again.
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  The woman was still staring at me.
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  As soon as our eyes met, I had the strangest vision.
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  It was like I started daydreaming, but it was so
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  vivid. I imagine myself taking the
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  scalpel and stabbing my nurse with it over and over again.
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  I heard the sounds of her screams and saw the horrific
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  bloody mess. I yelled out.
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  No. I snapped out of the Daydream.
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  I was horrified with what I had just imagined.
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  I was not a violent person at all and I'd never even thought
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  about anything that graphic in my life.
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  My stomach began to turn with nausea.
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  Concerned with my outburst, the nurse asked me if I was OK.
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  I told her I was and she continued.
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  I looked to my right again at the withered woman.
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  She was still staring at me, but now she was smiling and eerily
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  wide smile. It was like she was amused at my
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  discomfort. I turned away and decided not to
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  look back. The nurse finished wrapped my
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  foot and told me she'd be back later to check on me.
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  As she left, more medical personnel entered and wheeled
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  away the man who was on the bed. They had draped a sheet over his
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  body. The police officer and priest
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  walked in and closed the door. The priest gave me a slight nod
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  as he walked by. I noticed my cross necklace was
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  exposed through my hospital gown.
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  The two men walked behind the curtain.
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  I jumped and fried as soon as I heard it.
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  The woman started hissing and screaming as soon as she saw the
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  priest. The police officer spoke.
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  Cut that out or I will arrest you.
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  The priest interjected. No need for that at the moment,
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  Miss Baer, my name is Father DeMarco.
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  I heard the woman spit. He spoke again, but this time I
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  was in a different language. I hadn't been to church in a
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  while, but some of the Latin caught my ear.
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  I heard no mine, which I no means name.
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  To my amazement, she responded. The words hissed out of her
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  mouth in an incredible rage. She spoke in Latin, just as the
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  priest had. When she stopped, the cop spoke.
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  This is how she was talking when we found her father.
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  What she sang. The priest replied.
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  I need you to leave us. Take the boy.
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  The cop then walked over to me. Let's get you to another room
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  son. This woman has been through a
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  lot tonight. I was happy to leave, I just
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  wanted to be out of there. I got out of my bed and climbed
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  into my wheelchair. The hair on the back of my neck
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  stood up as the woman spoke aloud in English.
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  Your mother misses you, David. She then let out the most
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  terrifying laugh I have ever heard.
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  As the cop wheeled me out of the room, I could hear her maniacal
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  laughter trailing off behind me. My eyes welled up with tears as
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  I reflected on two things. First, my mother took her own
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  life a few years ago. 2nd and even more disturbing, none of
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  the medical staff in that room had said David a lot.