ll Anki SS: A New Encounter ll Updated-Special Part - Page 4

Originally posted by: Nazzyx8

You are perfect Jumoke!! Always love to read your stories!! 👏👏

This was a beautiful story of AnKi!!

Originally posted by: Serena.V

This is so cute yaar. Love the new concept. You make it into a FF. 😳

Originally posted by: risingsea101

This is lovely

Great job

I loved it :))

(Like I mentioned in my first post, I changed this into a SS instead of an OS and still indecisive how long it will be maybe 6-8 or maybe shorter but thank you)

(Sorry also please excuse any errors in any of the terms or medical procedures that i might describe im not an expert and still just learning).

Part Two

(Two days later...)

I was staring at him as he was sleeping, making sure that he was okay and I relaxed each time I saw his chest rise and fall.

I was cautious as I knew how easily someone can relapse from surgery.

Although I joked with him to help relax him, surgery wasn't a pretty thing.

It took me nearly eight months to recover from the seventh one I had and I was barely able to recover from the last one.

I wiped my problems from my mind to concentrate on Anand to make sure he was okay.

It was silent in the ICU except for the steady beeping of the heart monitor, the dripping of the IV, the respirator machine slowly running, along with the gastric tube that was making a small suction sound as it drained the contents from his stomach.

I shuddered.

I hated those tubes.

I was stuck on that for almost a good six months and by God how I hated it.

At least he was unconscious and not having to be left in a rendered state and stare at his body wasting away...

Stop it Kittu what is this. Its time to think positive. This is for Anand and thinking like this won't help him.

I chided to myself.

I shook my head and I looked at him and finally his expression was relaxed and I sighed and it looked like he finally calm down.

Before he was sweating and was tossing and turning in his sleep.

The nurses unfortunately had no choice but to give him a sedative through the IV and he was able to relax.

But that was a good eight hours ago and I was still concerned that he might wake up again in pain.

I sighed and I walked back to the small chair that was by his bed and I pulled my legs closer together as I brought my blanket together to wrap it around myself.

My eyes slowly closed and within a minute I dozed off and was about to welcome the sweet comfort of sleep until I heard grunting.

My eyes shot open like clockwork and I almost hit my leg on the chair when I got up.

I went by his side.

"Anand?" I questioned.

All I got back in response was more grunting and moaning as if in intense pain.

It was in the middle of the night and I wasn't sure if I should call someone so instead I tried smoothing his brow and I started to sing.

I started singing the lullaby my mom used to sing to me when I was younger.

I continued to smooth his brow and I continued singing even more until he settled down and I continued until my voice became horse and I became tired.

"Anand?" I tried again.

All I got back was the soft sounds of all the machines around us running and a soft snore and I smiled.

"That's better. Don't scare me like that." I pouted.

"Crazy Kittu I'm talking to him like he is conscious. Sheesh. This is what I get for being alone for so long. Once I see someone I can't stop talking to them even if they are not even conscious." I said smiling.

I checked on him again before I went back to the chair.

I picked up my blankets, turned around and sat on it, drawing my legs closer to my body as I wrapped the blanket around my frame.

My eyes slowly drifted until it drifted close and I was finally settle back into the warmth of sleep.

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"Kritika." A voice snapped.

I thought it was my dream and it was mama always snapping at me.

"Mama..."

She drew away from me.

"What did I tell you? Don't call me mama, I'm not your mother!" She snapped.

The voice became louder and soon I could feel my body move and I slowly opened my eyes.

I looked up and saw a nurse staring at me with a scowl on her face.

"Good morning." I said smiling.

I groggily rubbed my eyes and was stretching as I yawned.

"Get up!" the nurse said.

It was the same female nurse that told me to leave Anand's bedside yesterday afternoon and told me to return to my room.

Latika was it?

She was always mean to me and always seemed to be annoyed with me as if she didn't want me around her.

That's why I had no choice but to sneak in at night to make sure he was okay.

Instead I smiled and looked at her.

"I just wanted to check on him. I wanted to see that his surgery went well..."

"That is of no concern to you. Mr. Shergill's family is coming to see him and having you here would be of no convenience." She said.

My smiled faltered and I looked at Anand who was still motionless and letting the respirator help him breathe as his eyes remained closed.

"But he was in pain earlier..."

"Then you should have alerted us. Stop playing doctor. If something is wrong with him you should have let us know so we could have given him a painkiller to relax him." She snapped.

"But that would be overdosing him. You can't keep giving him painkillers. When he wakes up he will be in more pain and..."

She put her hand in the air.

"Stop it Kritika this is my job, our job and not yours. You might have been here longer than most normal patients but that doesn't mean you are now their caregiver. Please stay within your limits." She said.

My smile faltered and I looked up at Anand and his breathing was fine.

"Plus it makes no sense for a girl like you to obsess over a boy who's more or less a stranger. This is inappropriate." She said.

I looked at her confused.

"Why shouldn't I? I'm a girl and he is a boy but we are friends. Girls and boys can be friends and there is nothing wrong with that." I said.

"You were alone with him that is inappropriate." She said.

I looked at her aghast and I regained composure as she was older than me.

"I was making sure he was okay. He is passed out. There is nothing wrong with me being here helping my friend." I said.

She huffed and before she could respond another nurse came in.

"Kittu you're here again? Sheesh come on you have to go for your treatment."

I froze as the blood slowly went away from my body.

Treatment?

I hate it.

I hate it.

I loathe it in fact.

Each time I would feel out of breath and so dizzy and weak that I had to stay bedridden for a couple of days with a respirator and sometimes even worse a catheter.

I shuddered at the catheter.

I kept on getting it caught and I accidentally wet my bed and I wanted to die of humiliation as for the first time in a long time mama came to visit.

I hate it.

"I don't want to go." I whined.

"Go. You know you have to go or else..." she trailed off.

And the else part had me reconsider the pros and cons of skipping the treatment.

There were worse things than the catheter I chanted to myself.

I looked at Anand and I turned to Latika.

"Please when he wakes up tell him I stopped by." I smiled at the nurse before I took my blanket from the chair.

"There won't be no need...hurry and go for your treatment." She said.

I walked out of the room and I collided into Anand's sister, Shraddha outside.

She looked stunned and then she smiled.

"Hello," she said.

"Hello." I said back.

"You're the one that found Anand right? Kritika is it?" Shraddha said.

I nodded.

Before I could say anything the nurse came outside and she looked at me.

I turned to Shraddha and I nodded

"I'm sorry it's nice meeting you but I have to go." I said.

"Oh sorry nice meeting you?" she said confused as I walked away.

I went to my room and in true form there were two nurses waiting for me and ready in case I rebounded like I tried to do last time.

I sighed and just accepted my fate.

"Kritika where did you go? You know you have to have testing done today?"

I smiled.

"I'm sorry I'm ready." I said.

"Cheer up you will do fine. Plus if you do well I can help make sure when that patient recovers that he will be your roommate."

I looked up at the nurse, her name was Anna and she was the new nurse that was watching over me.

She was a lot nicer than the others and she would always sneak in sweets for me to eat even though I wasn't allowed to have any sweets in my diet.

I looked up at her and she winked and I smiled.

"But please make sure I don't look a mess. You know how I get after these things." I said self-consciously touching my hair and smoothing my clothes over.

She smiled and shook her head.

"Looks like someone has a crush on someone." She said smiling knowingly.

I blushed.

"Eh? Crush? Um...no...no...no. This is the first time I have had a roommate so I need to look presentable. Nothing more." I said.

"But then again I don't blame you. Of course you would when you have such a handsome looking young man right next to you." She said giving me side looks.

"I don't like him like that. I just want to be his friend." I said blushing.

"Oh...friend. Okay. You're his best friend I bet especially when you stare at him like this." She said while gazing off in the distance.

"I don't stare at him like that." I said while blushing.

"Or when you look at him like this." She said.

"I don't...Its time for my treatment right. I'm ready lets go." I said while marching ahead of her.

She started laughing and she trailed behind me along with the other nurse.

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(Five days later...)

I felt tired and my body felt sore beyond relief.

I could feel tubes in and out of me and it wasn't a very nice feeling especially knowing something was stuck inside my lower half.

There was so much pain in my stomach and I continuously felt a stabbing sensation at the area where the gastric tube was at and every time I tried to move the pain would become sharper and more intense.

A nurse came around and she disconnected the IV and released the needle from my arm and wiped the area where the needle was previously lodged into my skin.

She disconnected the heart monitor and she was taking care of all the unnecessary work to prepare my move away from the ICU into a regular room.

"Mr. Shergill lucky you that you are able to move but it would be best if you don't move as much." A nurse said while chuckling.

I say that she was trying to lower the rails on my bed as another nurse brought a stretcher closer to me.

"Now Mr. Shergill we are going to need you to move a little but be careful. If you can't, let us know. If you are feeling tired let us know. You will experience dizziness but if it last longer than an hour or two let us know immediately."

I nodded.

"Okay Anna on three, Anand on three." She said.

I nodded again.

"One...two...three." she said.

I used my upper muscles and I heaved myself off the bed while they tried to assist me onto the stretcher and I couldn't believe I felt winded after that.

My upper body felt like dead lead and I was struggling to catch my breath.

"Mr. Shergill you did great. Are you okay?" she asked.

I nodded slowly and I could feel my heart pumping forcibly against my chest.

"It's okay if you feel tired. You might not expect that but you were given some sedatives as you were not sleeping well at night. Plus you haven't used your body in a while." She said.

I nodded absently.

"Now please try to lay back, Anna help him nothing can happen to his gastric tube or it will be disastrous in trying to clean up the mess that will come out." The nurse said.

The other one nodded and in true form she was trying to push me back on the stretcher.

"It's okay Mr. Shergill your new room is going to be okay and you will be surprised to see your roommate.

I lifted one of my eyebrow in confusion and she just smiled at me.

In less than a minute or so I was willing down the hall with a tube still sticking out my stomach and in my lower half as it was impossible for me to get up to use the bathroom.

If I didn't feel like half a man when Shraddha beat me in basketball...I was definitely feeling the burn right about now.

I was being wheeled to my new room which annoyingly had another person in it as well as the curtains on the other person side was drawn close.

Anna and the nurse repeated their procedure and this time it took me after three tries to finally heave myself on to the bed that was already ready for my use.

They were sterilizing equipment as they stuck the IV back into my arm.

Thankfully I didn't need a respirator but they had resumed the heart monitor that began its annoying beeping again.

"Sorry Mr. Shergill but I have to check your vital signs." She said.

I nodded and while I was lost in my thoughts her face popped up and my bow furrow.

"Hey Anand!" Shraddha said.

"Hmmm?" I said watching her as she tried to unwrap a chocolate bar and my stomach was growling in not getting to eating anything that was tasteful in a long time.

She looked at me skeptically.

"What are you looking at? This is mine." She said.

And she pulled the candy closer to her chest, almost as if she was shielding it from my hands.

I looked at her and laughed.

"Seriously? Your brother is starving from the lack of any good food here and you are not willing to share?" I said.

She shook her head.

"This is all not good for your recovery...plus it was stuff like this that got you in that position." She said while she happily popped a piece of the bar into her mouth.

I stared at her as she stared at me and it was a heated stare off.

She released the piece she had and would slowly put it in her mouth and chew it before she swallowed and she bit into another piece...

"Don't..." I wanted to drool as she slowly chewed on another piece of chocolate as well.

I sucked my teeth and Shraddha happily continued eating.

"Oh yeah." Shraddha said with her mouth full with the chocolate.

I grunted and I didn't want to listen to her.

"Stop being such a big baby. Oh you remember that girl that dragged you back after you ran away like a baby.."

"I wasn't running away I was exploring or rather touring the hospital." I interrupted.

"Right..."touring" if you say so. Anyway that girl Kritika was it? Well she is such a nice girl."

I turned to her as she said the last part with admiration in her voice.

"How would you know?" I said.

She looked at me and she scowled.

"Of course I know. While you were passed out, she and I used to talk while she was watching over you in your room. She was so nice. And she is really funny. Did you know she has a..."

"She was watching over me?" I said shocked.

That got my attention and I almost knocked myself over trying to twist to look at Shraddha to see if this was one of her mind games again.

She blinked and she nodded.

"Yeah she watched over you. There were times when she was passed out and she would get yelled at by the nurse. I think last time she got yelled at for not telling the nurse that you needed a painkiller because she said it would make you weak when you wake up...and hey it looks like she is right. You keep losing every time we arm wrestle." She said while grinning.

There was no way she was that serious about being friends.

She was really nice but we barely knew each other.

"I haven't had anyone to play with in ages."Kittu said.

She was lonely and just wanted someone to talk to most likely.

It seemed especially with how young she was and that she has been in the hospital for really long time, she was barely able to make friends of her own age.

Something cold was placed on my chest and I was disturbed from my thoughts.

"Mr. Shergill please inhale?" the nurse said.

I didn't even realize when she opened my gown and I nodded and I inhaled.

"Exhale please." She said.

She continued this as she kept holding onto the stethoscope earpiece as she tried to concentrate and she moved the chest piece against my lower diaphragm to listen.

She continued and then she eventually stopped as she was pleased with her numbers.

Without any warning she stuck a thermometer in my mouth.

"Sorry Mr. Shergill just need to check your temperature.

She looked at the monitor and the thermometer beeped and she seemed worried.

In less than a minute she released the thermometer from my mouth as she disposed the mouthpiece that was in my mouth.

"Your temperature is kind of high, I don't like it. I'm going to give you an ibuprofen to lower the temperature." She said while writing on my chart.

I nodded.

She smiled.

"Okay we are all done Mr. Shergill in less than five minutes I will come back with the medicine and otherwise after that I will see you in three hours for lunch and to clean your tube. If you need me just call me with this call light." She said.

Again I nodded.

She smiled and before she left, she gripped the base of the curtains that were separating the other patient from my vision.

I turned to look and was about to go back to grab the remote when I turned back again and saw Kittu laying on the bed with a respirator in her nose as her eyes were closed.

"Um excuse me." I said to the nurse before she left the room.

She turned.

"Yes is anything wrong?" she asked.

"Umm not that...is...is she okay?" I said pointing at Kittu with concern.

She was not moving at all and if it wasn't from the steady rising and fall from of her chest I would have thought..

"Oh you mean Kittu." A smiled spread on her face.

"So it isn't just her then..." she murmured but I didn't hear her.

"She is okay...it's just that she is recuperating. She will be up and running in a day or so and if I was you I will steer clear from her." She said.

I looked at her confused and she smiled.

"Steer clear?" I said confused.

"Kittu isn't the happiest person to be around when she is done with these treatments so it's best to be really lenient with her." She said smiling.

She turned and walked out the room and I looked back at Kittu who was still immobile.

I was too weak and hooked up on a whole bunch of tubes to even get up to see if she was really alright.

This sucks.

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Originally posted by: Saanjh5

God.. you have me hooked.. I mean how do you do it...

and have you studied medical? how do you know these intricate details of treatments and medicines...

your writing is making me smile and sad at the same time.. cant wait.. please come out with the next addition sooon... its very gripping and extremely well written...

Kudos to you 👏

Originally posted by: vivkriti

Awesome. You never let us down. I always love to read your writings. Hey you have a good knowledge of medical treatment. Great job . waiting for your next update.👏