Complete Darkness - Original Writing

Complete Darkness - Original Writing

I woke up in complete darkness with an uncontrollable sharp stabbing

pain in my jaw, it was the middle of the night and I was about ten, I

had been sleeping in the top bunk bed in our Camper Van. I gave out a

great cry of pain and I could hear my mum coming down the steps from

her cabin bed. She switched on a light and I could see blood all over

the camper vans lineal floor, I could hear my sister Jenna complaining

about the bright light that had awoken her from her deep sleep, Mum

told her to go back to sleep. My mum took me up of the floor and

placed me into the bed and I can remember jumping up and down with the

pain. Mum took me into the bathroom to clean up the blood and I

remember her holding me on her knee while she sponged my face with a

facecloth. I also remember the bathroom being very small for two

people. My stepfather Davy was also at the door of the bathroom and

then he turned to clean up the blood from the floor. Mum remarked that

I must have put a tooth through my face, as there was a small hole

above my lip. When the bleeding stopped Mum put me back into bed and I

was still in a lot of pain but she stayed with me for a while and

comforted me to try and make me go back to sleep.

After some time Mum decided that she wanted to call the casualty

department at Coleraine Hospital to ask their advice on my fall. When

she came back I told her that I could feel a hole on the inside of my

mouth - my tongue would have gone into it. Mum got a torch and looked

in and said nothing. I could hear her going up the steps to the cabin

bed and speaking with my stepfather. Next thing I knew was that Mum

was telling me we were going to Coleraine Hospital.