Spice of Life

Spice of Life The adventure of life is to learn. The essence of life is to care. The purpose of life is to grow. The challenge of life is to overcome.

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27/05/2020

ONE DAY ONE ROOM
Cuddy orders House to two days of nothing but clinic duty. He starts by assembling the many who think they might have an STD. Then he ambles out to the waiting room to see how many patients are left. Suddenly, a man clutches his ear and runs around, screaming in agony. House trips the man with his cane, holds him down and administers a paralytic agent. The man becomes frozen, but at least he's no longer making noise. Unfortunately, they need to intubate because the paralytic has stopped the man's breathing.
House gathers his team to discuss the man's case. House asks what right ear pain, psychotic behavior and dizziness might indicate. Foreman throws out an acoustic neuroma that started to hemorrhage, so House asks for an MRI. Chase mentions that the man could have been psychotic first and mutilated himself. House likes that idea too, and he asks for a full psych work up. He then tells the doctors to pour some alcohol into the man's ear and pull out the cockroach. House knew this was the cause all along. He only wanted a big case to get him out of clinic duty.
Cameron, making the rounds on clinic duty, sees an old, disheveled man who's most likely homeless. He hands her a note and says that the other hospital gave it to him but he cannot read. The note says that the man has a six centimeter cancerous mass in his right lung which is inoperable. The man asks if he can sleep in the hospital because it's cold outside. Cameron finds Cuddy and spills the truth about House and the cockroach patient. Cuddy angrily tracks House down and makes it clear, once again, that either he does clinic duty or she will confess about the evidence against him. He owes her.
House returns to clinic duty and announces to the waiting room that he'll give $50 to anybody who leaves without being seen. Cuddy pulls him back into her office, desperate for a solution. She offers House $10 for every patient he can diagnose without touching. However, he will have to pay her $10 for every patient he does have to touch. So House starts plowing through patients without touching any of them.
The test results come back from the earlier STD patients, and the first two are clean. The third is a 20-something blonde female named Eve who tests positive. Eve breaks down in tears at the news even though House reassures her that Chlamydia isn't all that bad. House tries to hand her some pills, but Eve yells at him to not touch her. House goes to tell Cuddy to get a new doctor for this patient. Eve has been r***d.

Cuddy explains to Eve that the hospital will assign another doctor, but Eve insists on House. House says that he isn't interested in treating her because there is nothing to treat. She is perfectly healthy. Eve doesn't care, and only wants to talk to him. House comments that she just wants to reclaim power after being r***d. Eve screams at him to leave.
Eve crashes in the clinic. Cuddy and another doctor attend to her, but she is unconscious and foaming at the mouth because of a pill overdose. The doctor tells House that she had talked to Eve for over an hour but the girl said nothing. When the doctor turned her back, Eve grabbed the pill bottle.
House waits for Eve to awake and he asks her what she wants. She only wants to talk to him - about anything. House goes to his team for advice, and they suggest he give the girl his conversation. Cameron angrily says that there is no way that Eve can pretend the r**e did not occur. She needs to process it. House returns to Eve and explains to her that she can't blame herself for this. Eve says that she knows that already, but she still wants to talk about nothing.
Cameron's homeless patient is hooked up to a battery of machines and IVs. He pleads with her to stop the treatment because he doesn't want it and doesn't think he deserves it. Although she disagrees, Cameron unhooks the equipment. She visits him later and questions why he wants to suffer. The man asks her why her husband had to suffer. Cameron demands he tell her how he knows about her husband. The man admits that the nurse told him.
House and Eve discuss where they went to college. House still gets no answer on why Eve trusts him. She inquires whether anything terrible has ever happened to him. He hesitates, so Eve flips his own logic back on him. Not knowing what to do, House leaves to go seek counsel. Wilson thinks he should just tell Eve the truth. Cameron advises House to say his life has been wonderful so that the girl has some hope. Foreman suggests he just admit that his life has sucked so that she will see that she too can rebound. Chase notes that there is no wrong answer.
House returns to Eve's bedside and starts into his life story. He says that he was abused by his grandmother. His parents traveled and often left him with her. She was a strict disciplinarian. House never misbehaved when she was around because he was too afraid of being forced to sleep in the yard or of being made to take a bath in ice. He never told his parents. Eve asks if any of his story is true, and House assures her that it all is. She again asks if it is true. House replies that it is the truth for somebody.

Cuddy lets House know that Eve is pregnant. He breaks the news to the girl, then offers her the chance to terminate it. Eve isn't interested because she considers abortion to be murder. House asks her if she wants to take a walk outside to get some air.
Meanwhile, Cameron's homeless patient is still suffering. She tries to force pain medication on him, but he resists. The man says that if he dies suffering, then Cameron will always remember him. Nobody else will remember him. Cameron leaves the syringe next to his bed and sits down across the room. The man later struggles for breath and dies.
House and Eve sit in a park watching people jog by. They continue their philosophical discussion. Eve argues that eternity is what we live for, and House believes that our time on Earth is all we have. Eve refuses to believe that because then there are no ultimate consequences. She needs the comfort of knowing that this all means something.
Eve wonders if her attacker feels remorse for his actions. House asks why that matters. He then inquires why she trusts him. Eve explains that there's something about him, as if he is hurt too. House confesses that his story was true. Yet it wasn't his grandmother but his father who abused him. Eve begins to acknowledge what happened to her to House.
Back at the hospital, House informs Cuddy that Eve terminated her pregnancy and has been discharged from the hospital.

LUCYEPISODE 7There is nothing that proves difficult that doesn’t become better; it’s the end that matters.Lucy sang as s...
25/05/2020

LUCY
EPISODE 7
There is nothing that proves difficult that doesn’t become better; it’s the end that matters.
Lucy sang as she prepared food one afternoon.
Her protruded belly shook vehemently as she stirred the mixture in the pot.
It was already two weeks to her date of delivery and as the day drew near fear seemed to take over her.
“Where is this girl?” She asked suddenly as she stood up from where she was preparing the meal.
“Davina!” She shouted round the house as she set to check her neighbor, Mama Rita’s house.
She was about stepping out of the house when Mama Rita rushed in.
“Davina's Mummy! This is where you are?”
“What is happening?” She asked confused.
“It’s your daughter.”
“My daughter?” She shouted in panic as she ran after the woman towards the main road.
Laying on the road in her pool of blood on the floor laid her daughter.
“She said she was going to where her father plays Isolo game with his friends so she wanted to cross the road when a Vehicle….” The woman was recounting but Lucy had heard enough.
She shouted out in pain as her water broke.
“Ha! Let’s carry her to the hospital.” Her neighbor said as two men moved to assist her inside a parked vehicle.
“My daughter?” Lucy muttered silently as tears rolled down her eyes.
“The girl is still breathing!” Someone shouted as they moved to rush the girl also to the hospital.
“Go and call Davina's Daddy!” An old man ordered as a young lady ran off to do as she was told.
The car that assisted Lucy and her daughter soon arrived the hospital and both mother and daughter were wheeled in.
“Take the mother to the labor room. I’m taking the girl in for surgery immediately.” A doctor told his fellow doctor before he ran after the attendants wheeling Davina on in front of him.
“My husband?” Lucy asked Mama Rita who was assisting the nurses to the labor room.
“He’s not here yet. I don’t know what is delaying him.”
Lucy sighed as she thought of her last resort.
“Please call my parents. I saved my mother’s number is the first one in the contact list.” She said as the woman shook her head in understanding and excused herself.
It wasn’t long before her parents arrived at the hospital and they didn’t waste time as they started praying for God’s mercy upon their daughter’s life.
“What is happening Mum?” Mark asked his mother-in-law as soon as he got in.
“Something that is not beyond God!” Mr Zulu replied sharply as he made himself more comfortable on his seat.
Mark quickly went to the nurses and he was soon filled in on all that had happened.
“Can I see the hospital bill?” He asked the nurse who attended to him.
“We haven’t done the estimate since they are yet to be taken care of fully but you can have this for now sir.”
Mark stared at the bill of 18,000 Kwacha given to him. He looked round the hospital swiftly and back at the bill.
Where would he get the money to pay the bill? The nurse even said that was not the estimate. He would have to let Lucy’s parent handle it.
“I’m coming.” He said to the nurse as he hurriedly left the hospital.
“Young man! Where are you going?” Lucy’s father called after him.
“He said he is coming.” The nurse replied as the older couple shook their head in understanding.
Mark never returned for the next fifteen minutes.
“Please try his number?” Lucy’s Father told his wife.
“His number is not reachable. Hope It’s not that this man has bolted?”
“Ha!! Ha!” Lucy’s father exclaimed.
“I think the bill the nurse gave him must have scared him.” She said to her husband.
Do you see Lucy’s life now? I warned her, I did?” Her mother lamented tearfully.
The doctor who took Davina to surgery walked in at that moment.
“How far, Doctor?” Lucy’s Father asked after his granddaughter whom he had never even set eyes on.
“I’m sorry Sir. We lost her.”
“Jesus Christ!” Mrs Zulu shouted as her husband held her.
Her husband said as he consoled his wife.
He looked up at that moment to see the doctor in charge of Lucy’s case coming over to where they were sitting.
My husband! Hope we are not in for trouble today?” She said as she shook her body vehemently.
“God forbid in Jesus name. Calm down.”
“Please I need to tell you something.” The doctor started.
They listened as he told them to prepare for the worst as regards Lucy and the baby in her womb as she was already bleeding. The Doctor also explained about the Rhesus factor Incompatibility and how it may affect the fetus.
“Save my daughter please.” Her mother pleaded.
“Save the baby. What’s the essence of living anyway?” Lucy shouted out to the Doctor as soon as he told her what was happening in the little way he could.
Lucy went into serious bleeding as the doctors battled to save her and the baby’s lives.
Her blood soon mixed with the baby’s blood causing a type of anemia in the baby destroying its red blood cell.
The baby couldn’t get enough oxygen and was finally delivered dead.
The doctor shook his head pitifully.
“I’m sorry but the truth is you might not be able to have a successful conception again.”
Lucy wept uncontrollably at the news though in pains.
She lost her daughter and unborn child the same day.
Her husband too had bolted.
There was no hope of Motherhood for her again.
Regret was all she had as she remembered how it all started in the University with Mark.
“If only I hadn’t met Mark; if only I had stayed with Cecilia then; if only I had listened to my parents. If Only I hadn’t thought I couldn’t live without Mark.”
“I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t get into the wrong relationship. I did it my own way. My career is over. My life is finished.” She cried out in pains.
“If only you hadn’t rejected Christ over and over again? If only you hadn’t decided to have it your own way?” her father added in sorrow causing her to weep the more.
“But my child, there is hope. I agree you’ve lost so much but there is hope. Lucy, you are alive so there is hope. Will you give your life to Christ?” Her mother asked amidst tears.
“There is no benefit I have for Christ again? I have already blown the second chance God gave me?” She shook her head sorrowfully.
“No, Lucy. Don’t believe the devil’s lies; Jesus still loves you. Yes, he is unhappy things are like this but he doesn’t mind giving you another chance. He wants to make your life beautiful.”
“Mummy, Lead me to the Cross. I’m tired of living like this.”
“Thank you Jesus!” her father exclaimed as her mother pulled her into a hug.
“Lucy, Say after me…”
“Lord Jesus, I’m sorry for how I have ignored you all this while. I’m sorry for living my life my own way. I’m sorry for even choosing a life partner in my own way. I come to you for mercy. Jesus, have mercy upon me. Wash me with your blood. Write my name in the book of life. Make me a new man and help me to live my life as you want me to. Heal my wounds Oh Lord. And give me the grace to live in newness of live. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Father for I am yours. For in Jesus name I have prayed. Amen.”

THE END!!!!!!!
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LUCYEPISODE 6 (Penultimate)"Thank you very much, am so grateful." He replied as the doctor walked away all similes.Lucy’...
24/05/2020

LUCY
EPISODE 6 (Penultimate)
"Thank you very much, am so grateful." He replied as the doctor walked away all similes.
Lucy’s mother paced the sitting room as she dialed her daughter’s number again.
Someone answered on the second ring;
Lucy! What is wrong?
“Good Afternoon Mama.” A male voice responded. She frowned.
“Hmm! Please can I speak to my daughter? It’s important.”
“Alright Mama. I will give it to her but she is just recovering.”
“Was she sick?” She asked not too surprised.
“Yes Mother. She was just discharged yesterday.”
“Ha! Mupase lamya!” (Just give her the phone.) She insisted as she heard the phone been passed at the other end.
“Maami!”
“Thank you Jesus! Lucy, how are you doing?”
“I’m doing well.”
“Hmm! Lucy, niuze va zoona vamene vina chitika?” (Confess to me, what happened?) She pleaded.
“Don’t bother yourself. I’m now okay.” She replied as she whimpered in pain.
“Lucy! You’re in pains! You are telling me you are okay. It’s alright. I just want to remind you not to waste the second opportunity God gave you.”
“Mummy, wait! What’s going on? Did Mark tell you anything?” Lucy asked astonished.
“Not at all. Lucy, you should know that God spared you so you can give your life to him. Don’t waste this opportunity. I don’t know the details of what happened but I know what I saw and what the Lord told me and I know that I prayed that God had Mercy on you. I’m sure you know what you also experienced over there throughout all those period. Don’t let God spew you out. That is what I want to tell you.”
“Alright Maami. I will think about it.”
Mrs. Zulu couldn’t believe her ears.
“Lucy! You will think about the matter of your soul?”
“It’s alright. I know I have done my part. I will continue to remember you in my prayers but please I beg you in God’s name separate yourself from that Mark or what is his name. As long as you are with him things may not go well for you.”
“Huh! Mummy, are you cursing me?”
“Hmm! Lucy! A friend of the world is an enemy of God. You aren’t in the good book of God at all. I have said it as your mother, leave his hostel, I beg you.”
“I have heard you Maami.” She said yawning.
“I have said my own words. It is well with you.”
“Amen.” She replied as she ended the call.
Mrs Zulu shook her head as she prayed her daughter would consider all what she told her.
Lucy thought about all her mother had told her. Events of when she was terribly ill flooded her mind.
Giving her life to Christ was not the problem but would she now let that separate her and Mark?
Would everything they had being through together now be in vain?
She couldn’t bare been separated from Mark after she just aborted a baby for him.
What if she got married to another man and she didn’t conceive? It is better to face whatever consequences lie ahead together with Mark.
“They would fight it through.” she decided as she put all that happened behind her.
Few days after that her parents sent her some amounts of money to get an accommodation for herself. They pleaded with her to quit living with Mark.
She told her parents she would work towards it but the duo spent the money on other needs promising themselves they would eventually get married to each other. Lucy and Mark lived a couple’s life till they finally graduated.
Eventually Mark and Lucy went to different towns for for their final attachments. Lucy feared because of the relationship so she redeployed to the town Mark was posted to. Even though their Place of Primary Assignment was at different locations they made sure they travelled to see each other often and even spent weekends together.
Eventually Lucy became pregnant again and without much consideration she aborted it.
“Anything that will make him get angry and cause our relationship to end will not even happen at all.” She re-assured herself as she realized how much she had lost because of her relationship with Mark.
The duo soon finished their attachments and Lucy decided to go for her Postgraduate Studies in Aeronautic engineering as she initially planned however Mark proposed marriage promising her she would continue later.
She agreed. Her parents were informed of the marriage plan but pleaded with their daughter to reconsider her decision.
“God has better plans for you, my daughter. This life you have chosen for yourself is not right.” her mother said to her.
“I have given a lot into this relationship that I can’t afford to lose him.” She told her parents.
Since her parent’s denomination would not subscribe to their type of union, Lucy and Mark finally had their wedding at Civic centre.
For several months after their marriage, Lucy never conceived so the duo went through various tests and examinations.
It was during one of the normal check-up tests that it was discovered that the two were of the same genotype AS and they could end up giving birth to children with sickle cell disease.
“Have we ever talked about our genotypes before?” Lucy asked Mark in dismay as soon as they got back home.
“No. This has never crossed my mind before. We were so much in a hurry that we forgot to talk about a lot of things.”
Lucy eventually became pregnant and they accepted the fact that there could be risks. Throughout all these periods Lucy never contacted her parents or any member of her family.
She went for one of her pre-natal appointments with her husband one day when the doctor discovered the fetus in her womb was Rh+ like Mark even though she was Rh- causing Rh Incompatibility.
“Can you explain the repercussions Doctor?” Mark asked as Lucy listened.
“If the blood of the fetus gets into her blood during birth or labor, her body will understand it’s not her blood and make anti-Rh antibodies that cross the placenta and try to destroy the baby’s blood. It causes serious health problem, the fetus may die and future conception might be difficult.” The doctor explained to their amazement.
“But since this is her first with an Rh+ pregnancy, her body might not have a chance to develop a lot of antibodies. But if the preventive treatment is not given during the pregnancy and she later gets pregnant again with an Rh+, then the baby and future fetus will be put at risk.” he further explained as they listened.
Lucy and Mark remembered the fact that the pregnancy was her third one unlike what the Doctor knew.
“If a pregnancy was not carried to term, like on two occasions, can my body still develop antibodies?” she asked.
“Yes, it’s possible if the fetus are Rh+. Even those with Miscarriages are usually treated and immunized because of the future child. A Medication called Rh immunoglobulin (Rhlg) will be given to the woman when the pregnancy is 28 weeks and 72 hours after birth.”
Panic set in Lucy and Mark as they didn’t even know the Rhesus factor of the fetus.
They understood she had to take the medication whether they liked it or not; however the price of the medication left their mouth hanging as they left the hospital dejectedly.
There was no money coming in for them as Mark wasn’t being offered well-paid Contracts and he had insisted she be a full house wife till she had her Master’s degree. Lucy regretted agreeing to that as she gradually concluded there was no hope of that again.
“Should I contact my parents for help?” She thought.
“No. They warned me against this marriage. I can’t go to them. This pregnancy will have to grow that way.” She concluded.
Lucy gave birth to her first daughter Davina who was a sickle cellar and due to that, complications set in. Davina was always falling sick and their financial life was not becoming any better.
The couple soon started getting frustrated and angry with each other and soon Mark started drinking and staying away from home.
“Why is life so unbearable like this?” Lucy would always ask herself as tears and regret became her daily bread.
Lucy soon got pregnant again when Davina was Two years old and the fetus was again Rh+. She decided to remind Mark about what the doctor explained to them;
“There is no money for any medication.” Mark shouted at her as soon as she had explained to him.
“Mark! My life is at risk here. Can’t you look for the money somehow?”
“Woman! Leave me alone!” He shouted causing her to jump.
“Ha! My life is ruined! How did I end up with this man?” She asked in tears as she sat on a chair with a thud.
Mark hissed and left the house angrily.
Lucy shook her head in regret as she remembered the doctor’s warning.
She and the baby were in danger………

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LUCYEPISODE 5..She picked up her phone to check if Lucy had called back but there was nothing as such.Time to Pray! She ...
22/05/2020

LUCY
EPISODE 5..She picked up her phone to check if Lucy had called back but there was nothing as such.
Time to Pray! She said to herself as she hurried to the Sitting Room.
“It is written in Ecclesiastes chapter 10:8 that ‘He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge a serpent shall bite him.’ Anybody that has dig a pit for Lucy to fall into, they themselves should begin to fall into it in Jesus name.”
“It is written that every gathering that is not of God shall be scattered. Any gathering of the host of hell as regards my Daughter Lucy to destroy her life let them begin to scatter in Jesus name.”
“No enemy of her soul will be able to terminate her life in Jesus name.”
“Beatrice, Listen to me.”
She heard the still small voice speak to her.
She stopped.
“Thank you Holy Spirit. I’m listening.”
“If I may ask, what are you praying about?”
“I’m praying for Lucy. I’m praying against the enemy of her soul.”
“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss. That is in James 4:3.”
“I don’t understand Lord.”
“You are praying the wrong prayer.”
“Ha! Lord… Teach me how to pray. I know not how to pray Lord. It is written in Romans 8:26 that ‘likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.’ Lord help me to pray Lord.”
“Daughter, you need to know that your daughter is the one that digged a pit for herself with her own hands. She knew that the steps she was about to take could have repercussions but she didn’t care.”
“Beatrice, Plead for Mercy!”
“Daughter, Ask for Mercy.”
“Thank you Holy Spirit.” Mrs Zulu said as she repositioned herself.
“Lord You said that you will have mercy upon whom you will have mercy. Father, Have Mercy upon Lucy. Let Mercy speak over Judgment for her.”
“It is written that ‘shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives of the just be delivered? For thus says the Lord: Even the Captives of the mighty will be taken away and the prey of the terrible will be delivered; for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will give safety to your children and ease them.’ Father, deliver Lucy from the Pit wherein she has put herself.”
She pleaded… wept and fought in the place of Prayer.
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Lucy stared at the net underneath her feet.
It could give way anytime she could tell.
She wondered how she had gotten herself into such a big and terrifying pit.
She looked at the net again.
She knew if the net should tear she was done for.
She lifted her eyes to the top of the pit. “Somebody help!” She screamed at the top of her voice.
“Anyone there?”
“Help!”
“Please, don’t let me die in here.”
She hoped someone will hear.
“Mercy Lord! Mercy Lord!” She heard as a voice cried around her.
She looked around her as she confirmed that she was alone in the pit yet she knew that voice.
Her Mum!
“Mum! Help!” She shouted hoping her mother would help bring her out rather than just crying for Mercy.
“Only Mercy can help! Have Mercy Lord!” Her mother’s voice boomed round her again.
Lucy waited in the pit for the next 20 minutes awaiting her fate.
She looked at the net.
It had become so weak that there was a large hole in it already.
“Ha! Mercy Lord!” She didn’t know when she voiced out..
If that was what would save her she would cry as much as possible.
The net tore suddenly as Lucy screamed. The net gave way as she fell off the net.
She noticed a small part was still attached to the wall of the pit so she quickly held unto the remnant as the small net became weaker and weaker.
She stared below her into the pit.
It was so dark.
The moment the net cut loose totally she would be spinning down the pit.
“Lord, have Mercy!” She screamed with the last ounce of strength in her.
“Grab unto the Rope!” A man’s voice shouted to her from the top.
“What? Rope!” She saw as she saw a rope dangling in front of her.
She caught it and held unto it quickly.
“Release that net you are holding.” The voice said as she carefully let go.
“Climb up swiftly.” He commanded as she began her journey up the pit.
“Who are you?” She asked from below the pit as she climbed.
“I am Mercy, a servant of the Most High God. He chose to send me to you. Judgment was also waiting to see if he would be ordered to work but he chose to send me.”
“Thanks for coming.” She said as she continued climbing.
She wondered why she wasn’t out of the pit already.
She had no idea the pit was that deep.
“You can show you are really thankful by surrendering your life to your maker because Mercy prevailed against judgment for you today. You might not be so favored another time.” He said.
“I understand. Thank you.” She said as she climbed faster.
As she moved towards the top, a very bright light shone into her eyes causing her to use one hand to shield her eyes quickly.
At the Hospital….
A nurse walked round the hospital doing her rounds when she passed a bed thoughtfully.
She ignored the bed at first but took a detour to take a second look at the body sprawled on the bed.
“Oh my God!” She screamed causing a pair of eye to blink at her in surprise.
She ran towards Dr Kamulaza’s office and opened his door without knocking.
“No Courtesy again, Nurse?” Dr Kamulaza asked surprisingly.
“Sorry Sir, It’s…. The lady is awake.”
A curtain separating the doctor’s office and an examination room was pulled back from within.
She turned back startled as a ruffled Mark stared at her.
“What did you say?” He asked before the Doctor could say anything.
“She is awake. Our eyes met.” The nurse said smiling.
“Wonderful!” said the Doctor as Mark jumped down from the examination bed he was sleeping on and ran out of the office.
The Doctor and Nurse trod after him happily.
Mark stared at Lucy as she stared at her surroundings.
“This is a miracle!” The Doctor asked as he pointed a flashlight at her eyes to examine her eyes.
“She’s okay. Congratulations Mark. Let’s just monitor her till tomorrow then she can be discharged.”
“Alright. Thank you very much. I’m so grateful.” He replied as the doctor walked away all smiles.
What then would be Lucy’s Decision now that she has another chance to live?

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21/05/2020

LUCY
EPISODE 4
“You can drop your bag!” Mark said as she stopped to hand it over to him.
Their eyes met.
“I’m scared.” she whispered.
“You’ll be fine. I promise.”
He patted her on the shoulder as she turned to follow the doctor.
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Mark tapped his feet on the floor impatiently.
It was about 40 minutes already but Lucy and the Doctor were still behind the door. He wondered if it usually took that long.
“Excuse me please!” He called as the nurse who had attended to them earlier turned her attention to him.
“Yes?”
“Does it usually take this long? I mean the…”
“Well, not really. It depends on how serious the situation ends up being in that room.” She replied looking towards the room thoughtfully.
He hoped nothing was wrong with her.
“I hope things are going on well in there.” The lady added as she continued whatever it was she was doing.
Silence filled the room for about two minutes until the door to the procedure room opened.
No one came out for few seconds.
Mark stared at the door as he wondered what was happening.
He prayed silently that Lucy would come out and was disappointed when the Doctor rushed out in haste.
He felt blood drain from his face as various thoughts crossed his mind.
“Chita.” the doctor called as soon as he got to where the nurse sat.
“Sir.” She replied standing up swiftly.
“We have a situation. I need you to prepare for a transfer to Dr Kamulaza's hospital. Call the Driver to come around and inform the Hospital of our coming. Just tell them the patient’s information is confidential and will be shared with the doctor alone.”
“Oh! Alright Sir.” She replied as she picked the phone to start making calls.
“What’s happening?” Mark asked in worry as the Doctor turned to him.
“Mark, honestly I have never experienced this since I started doing evacuation procedures. I was already through with everything when she suddenly started bleeding and became unconscious just like that. The funniest thing is the bleeding is not controllable. There is need for blood to be transfused to her but we don’t have the facilities here. I really don’t know what to expect at this point.”
Mark stared at the Doctor in silence before the doctor added quickly.
“But there is hope. Just keep praying if you can.” He said as he rushed back into the room.
Mark walked back to where he was seated before.
He sat down silently as he bowed his head.
Even if he wanted to ask God for help he didn’t know how.
It wasn’t long before Lucy was wheeled out on a stretcher into an ambulance.
If anyone asked him what he thought would be their fate; he had no idea.
Mark paced the Outpatient Department (OPD) thoughtfully.
They had arrived the hospital about an hour ago and the doctors were still battling to save Lucy’s life.
He didn’t know what would be his fate if anything happened to Lucy. Everyone knew they stayed together so her noticed absence could raise an alarm in few days.
He had no one to call.
He dared not inform her parents.
“Brrrr!” Something vibrated against his body suddenly causing him to flinch.
He brought out his phone quickly and noticed it wasn’t his that vibrated.
He thrust his right hand inside Lucy’s bag quickly to bring out her phone.
Mark stared at the phone.
Her mother was the one calling her.
He waited till the phone rang through and hurriedly placed the phone on airplane mode.
“Mr Mark!” Dr Mapalo called as he and his friend walked towards Mark with a serious look.
“How is she doing?” He asked as soon as he stood to meet them.
“Well, the bleeding has been controlled but she has lost a lot of blood so blood is been transfused to her presently. However, we have to pray she comes around quickly.” Dr Kamulaza explained.
“Thank you.” Mark said quickly as he heaved a sigh of relief.
“Hmm! Mark, honestly sometimes some people don’t come around again. Like some just pass on to the other side like that. We hope that doesn’t be like that.”
“Ha! I know she will wake up.” Mark said hopefully.
“She will. She will!” Dr Mapalo said.
“We’ll see you later. And please do well to settle all bills too.” Dr Kamulaza said as he turned to go.
“Alright Sir. I will. Thank you.”
Mark sighed as he walked towards the nursing station to ask on how to go about the bills.
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The ground had become muddy,
A certain Footstep laid clear and distinct on the floor.
Mrs Beatrice Zulu followed the footsteps silently.
She walked for some minutes as it led her to an open arena.
She wondered where she was and what she was doing there when her eyes caught a tiny image not too far from her.
“She must be the one I’m looking for.” She said happily as she ran towards the image.
As she moved closer, the image became clearer and clearer and the person’s back view looked like a female’s to her.
She paused! The back view looked familiar to her.
She walked on, slowly this time.
The lady bent down to do something.
Whatever she was doing she did so desperately.
Mrs Zulu squinted her eyes and saw what the lady was doing.
She was digging a hole.
“This Child should be careful. Why dig a hole on a land like this?” She thought as she moved towards the Lady.
The Lady stopped working as she must have heard her footsteps.
She turned slowly.
The elderly woman Froze as she stared at the face in front of her.
She recognized the face but it now looked battered and wounded.
“What are you doing?” Mrs Zulu asked as she moved closer to the young lady.
The young lady hissed in return as she turned swiftly.
She leapt into the Hole.
“Lucy!” The woman cried out as she ran towards the hole.
She gazed inside and realized the hole was very big and dark.
She narrowed her gaze to see her clearly.
Then she saw her at what looked like the bottom of the pit.
She looked carefully to see that the Lady stood on an old net that looked very weak and like it would tear open anytime.
“That means the pit is very deep.” She said to none in particular as she looked around for anything to help the lady out.
“Help me. I’m dying.” Lucy shouted out suddenly…
“Jesus!” Mrs Zulu shouted out as soon as she woke up.
She rose up from her bed speedily and jumped on her feet.
Her daughter was in trouble she needed no seer to tell her that again. But what trouble it was she didn’t know.
She had been having the urge for days to speak to Lucy but the young lady was not picking up her calls.
The number was even not reachable thereafter.
She picked up her phone to check if Lucy had called back but there was nothing as such.
Time to Pray! She said to herself as she hurried to the Sitting Room…….

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