100 Days of Steem (My 1st Diary Game_ 4th July 2020) : A long rough day at the hospital

Today we took my little sister for Xray at the hospital and it turns out she is going to be having a surgery for her intestines. What started out as a beautiful sunny day quickly turned into a cloudy day.

Here was how my morning started...

I woke up with the plan to finally start a free courses offered by the Ivy League universities. My friend had introduced me to them. So I grabbed breakfast and went on my computer to begin.

But I had hardly enrolled to this free course when I was interrupted with a medical emergency. The breakfast I was having hadn't settled well with my little sister so we took her to the hospital where she was asked to do a scan.

She had been complaining of her stomach for the past few days and the doctors had said it was ulcer, because she is an ulcer patient. But when all the treatments failed, she couldn't sleep all through last night as the night before and it kept getting worse. So we took her to the hospital again. She was examined and sent in for Xray...I've never seen her this scared before.

When we returned, I handed the Xray films to our mum and went to get lunch from the kitchen.

Mum had made my favorite, a rare and special meal from my community known as Ukwa (bread fruit). You boil it, take out the water. Make it into porridge and serve it with the water.

But this time it didn't taste as good as it used to, my tongue was bitter. Watching my sister and thinking of the surgery she is said to undergo was disturbing for me.

She has no idea that she will be going into surgery in a week or two.

The Xray had shown that her intestines were shifted to the wrong side and got tangled and now might also have holes. They said it was from birth that she had been that way. And only surgery can correct it. So we are getting ready to have her operated on as soon as possible.

She has been very excited about resuming school, but all of that will have to wait once she is operated on. And the doctor had said some of her intestines might have holes and would need to be cut off and joined back and all those disturbing news.

We just hope and pray it isn't the worse case scenario

One thing I know is she will be fine.

So this was how rough my day went. But I am thankful it didn't go worse. (It could have).