I heard voices around me but I just could not understand what was said. Blurry images of people walking around me and then disappearing back into darkness. Consciousness faded in and out and I could not tell if I was dreaming or not. The blurry images started coming back together and everything was clearer. I could hear beeping sounds continuously. As I looked down, I was lying on a clean bed, wearing a light blue sleeping gown. Each of my hands was strapped onto each side of the bed. There were tubes in me too. I felt really strange. I could not recall a single reason why I ended up in a place like this. Where am i?? I was really scared. Then I felt needles and pins in my legs. I then tried wriggling them but to find out that only my right leg was moving. My heart rate increased and my heart was pounding against my chest rapidly. I stared straight at my left leg and kept my eyes there. And again, I wriggled with as much force as I could. But to no avail. I could not feel my left leg at all. Lost, terror and fright, filled me up instantly. What is going on. My head whispered. One part of me wanted to know what was happening yet the other was telling me “No, please no”. My shivering hand slowly reached out towards the blanket that was covering my left leg and pulled it away. It was gone. My left leg was gone. I wanted to scream but yet I couldn’t! I strained voice as hard as I could. I was crying in agony and pain! My life was over! Everything was over! I kept shouting for my legs back. I wanted my legs back! I tried to free my hands away from the straps as hard as I could till red marks and cuts started appearing on my arms. Finally the straps were torn broken. I tried moving off the bed but I couldn’t! Because I had only one leg! I felt disgusted by myself! I was useless and disgusting! I wanted to die. After struggling so much, I fell off the bed with a loud thump. I did not give up. I wanted to find my mom. I crawled with