world to a screeching halt

this wasnt really how she thought her life would turn out to be like.
no, not like this.dont worry, you’ll be fine, the nurse said as she smiled to her.
the biting cold made her fingers and toes numb and she was nervous as hell.
she laid on the bed and heads hovered ominously over her.
someone she couldnt really remember clipped a plastic thing over her right thumb.
it’s to monitor your heartbeat, a nurse said.
it gave off a foreboding eerie red glow, and she even joked to one nurse about being ET, or something like that.
another nurse then put in the anesthesia into her stick thin veins.

without realising, she drifted off.

when she woke, it was two hours later, and a nurse pushed a cup of milo and crackers to her and smiled encouragingly to her, with no hint of what was to come.

i couldnt remember much about that day, maybe just-
you have bile reflux.

the part when my world was brought down to my feet.