“Don’t sit on it!” the desperate voice of my grandma yelped.
“Hmm? What?”
Thump! I flopped on the scorching basin my grandma always uses to warm her feet. The rickety basin skimmed under the unexpected force on it, and the water in the bucket charged out. The boiling water ran down my legs, onto my feet and all over the floor. Sizzle—sizzle—the sound of oil on a hot pan.
“AHHHHHHH!!!” My high-pitched cries rang in the room, waking everyone up.
Blast! The room erupted into panic.
My mom frantically pounded the taxi number, “Taxi, taxi! Come to the 903 as soon as possible, we are in a rush! Please! When can you be here?”
“Come here and put your feet inside. Be careful!” My grandma lifted a bucket of ice water and placed it in front of the couch.
“No, not that blanket. The one in the closet!”
The whole room is running around, freaking out. They cooled me down, wrapped me in a blanket, and sprinted out the door.
The whistling wind blew on the streets; pedestrians huddle in their coats and scarfs, gathering the lingering warmth on their bodies. The rigid air slashed on our faces, harsh and bitter. The wind slipped past, seeping into the blanket and into my bones. In the freezing weather, I was a total contrast. Face bright red and feet steaming, we hopped on a taxi and stormed to the hospital.
“What a severe burn! I will give you medicine to put on, but you need to change the bandage everyday. Do not move your feet in three months, then come to the hospital for another check.” The doctor stated while we hung on to every word.
The white linen hugged my feet tightly, stiff like a stick. The green medicine oozed out of the bandage, a distinctive acrid smell floated in the air. The pale corridor of the hospital seemed eerie and strangely quiet as I was being transferred to my medical ward. My family would look in on me everyday and bring some toys and food for me to play with.
My family was suggested to cleanse my legs daily to keep it from the inflammation, although every time someone tried to touch it, I would flinch with pain, unbearable for my parents to watch. Time passed, and my leg’s condition grew critical; nothing that they could do, my parents handed me to the nurses to change the bandage. I glowered at the nurse, willing her with the force to get her obnoxious hands off me. The nurse ruthlessly scrapes off the flesh with the bandage; there were several other children, and the shrieks of agony emitted from the room. I smell blood---the rusty, metallic smell of blood.
Finally, the torturous three months passed, and my burns were almost all cured, except for an area on my right ankle that was scorched too badly.Well, it was surely a memorable lesson.