Be Patient Please!

By Dode Sescri

How exactly should you feel like when you find yourself ill in an hospital or home bed, sometimes you are left alone or get overwhelmed by the large number of visitors that flow in and out of the room, should you battle it out all by yourself or should you try to forget that you are ill, the way others try to put it, of course you can't forget your current pain, a few old friends come in and try to comfort you, some do it well while others add salt to the injury, then an experienced physician walks in, he sees the uneasiness in your face and finds your hands stretching out to a glass cup which is far out of reach, he places the cup in your hands with a pair of tablets and gently folds your hands back to place, and in a low tone, says, "be patient please,"

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dode Sescri
• Release date: Sep 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370275038

Dode Sescri

Let me tell you a story, it goes like this..."Once upon a time there lived a rat and a cat, they were very good friends, they lived happily in their wooden shack, they shared everything between themselves, when one of them got some food, he would share it with the other. One day the rat did something very bad, he annoyed the cat who then out of rage slapped him very hard, the rat was seriously injured by the blow and then died. That’s the end of my story..."Yarn spinning is a skill that is deeply ingrained in our blood, we are descended from a long line of great story tellers, there is no story we don’t know how to tell, we always find time to amaze our audiences with great tales, both the contemporary and the legends of the old...My old time friends Jiji and Kaki are the two fellows that have greatly influenced my writing and life at large, when you hear them speak you are led to think they know everything, Jiji was very good at debates, I don’t remember a single day when he lost a contest. Kaki on the other hand was a great story teller, I don’t know where he got his stories from, we simply enjoyed them, we never cared about his sources either, he had lots of them too. One thing I loved about this little fellow was that I never got bored around him. He would flood your ears with thousands of stories at a time and there is no single moment when he will tell you the same story twice. Jiji was somehow a fanatic. When there is a discussion then individuals get stuck at a point where nobody has any further information, all are ignorant, that’s when he jumps onto the dance floor, claiming he knows it all, I have never met anyone who loved arguments more than Jiji, even a simple discussion he would turn it into an argument. He had a strange way of convincing people to believe his claims, even though you had with you solid facts that proved him otherwise, you still couldn’t beat him...

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Contention.

Let me assure you this mafriend, when the will to live is stronger, nothing can put you down, no matter what, said the nurse to me at the patient’s ward.

When the will to live is stronger, no ugly thing can cross your path, no shapeless chivvy can end one’s life unexpectedly, I said to the physicians I still have some unfinished business, I CANNOT DIE NOW, and that’s how those words came to be true, and here I have come to stand as a witness to the tribulations I have experienced over the past years due to poor health conditions.

Diagnosis-1-no more needles

A physician tells an elderly man to turn his back in order to receive an injection on his bottoms, upon inserting the needle, he screams out loud Aaagh! Please stop, you are killing me, he exclaims. I am not killing you, I am helping you sire replies the doctor, if I don’t inject you now the infection will spread to your vital organs and knock you out, that’s what is going to kill you. To his shock this was only the first of the many injections he's going to be receiving.

You have sixty injections says the medic. So aahhm…….. Fifty nine of them left, you shall return to this clinic every evening from now on for another fifty nine days,

Will Hearty