บท 8: Uncle…She is Following Me! Part II
Racing with the announcement calling his name, the doctor walked to the OB/GYN ward at a furious pace. The young man internally scolded the nurse... He had already said that he was coming. Why did they keep announcing? Were they afraid that the patient wouldn't know that a doctor could take a break too?!
“Extern Achira, obstetrician, please come to the ultrasound room urgently.”
"I’m here, I’m here," said the doctor softly. Walking to the front of the ultrasound room, the nurse at the station was about to announce once again. However, she stopped the call when she saw the doctor. The nurse smiled at the young doctor as if she hadn't humiliated him a moment ago.
“Isn’t the shift doctor here? Why did you have to call me? My shift is over."
“I’m aware of that, Doctor Aun. But Professor Kawee is still busy with an urgent case. So, I need to call for your help with this ultrasound case. There’s a mother who met a psychic who claimed her baby is dead in her womb. So, she is anxious to know how the baby is. I have confirmed that the child's heart is still beating normally. However, she didn't believe me and pushed for an ultrasound to see her baby. So, I had to call you here, Doctor Aun. Otherwise, the ward will be damned.”
Then the doctor jumped from the patient's screams piercing through the air. Indeed, as the nurse said...the patient was so aggressive that the ward became hectic. It seemed like he had to hurry and deal with this case.
Doctor Aun nodded and opened the door of the ultrasound room. The pregnant woman was heatedly screaming at the nurse, who couldn't call the doctor in time. When she saw Doctor Aun, she stopped crying and spoke up breathlessly.
“You are here… doctor, please take a look at my child. Is he still here?"
“Please calm down, Miss. I will do the ultrasound to scan your baby. Let’s make it four-dimensional, so you can clearly see that your baby is still doing fine… Take it easy for a moment... I'm sure you'll know the results soon.” He spoke with a soft tone. The patient nodded in understanding and lay down on the bed. A young nurse opened her clothes to see her stomach as the doctor read the patient's profile.
...There was no abnormal symptom. The gestational age was more than 22 weeks in which the baby's organs were utterly developed.
The young doctor sat down and turned on the ultrasound machine. Smiling sweetly at the patient, he then picked up the probe and waited. The nurse knew her duties as she took the cold gel and applied it to the patient's abdomen. Meanwhile, Doctor Aun explained.
“It will feel a little cold, Miss. This gel will help the device see the baby more clearly. Then I will circle the probe around your belly for a while.” After speaking, Doctor Aun began the procedure. He moved the probe back and forth around the entire abdomen.
In an instant, a three-dimensional image appeared on the computer screen. The mother's eyes widened with excitement.
“You see, Miss… The baby is still in your belly. He’s healthy and strong. His heart is beating normally. Here, the heart is right here.” Doctor Aun pointed to the child's heart which was pounding. "He is a boy...are you happy?"
“I'm happy.”
Wah...wah...wah...wah
The doctor stopped moving the probe and listened to the sound. It was like the sound of a child crying loudly from somewhere. Doctor Aun turned to ask the nurse standing beside him.
“Nurse, did you hear that noise?”
"What's the noise, Doctor?" she asked, furrowing her brows.
“Sounds like… like a crying child.”
"I didn't hear anything, Doctor," the nurse denied. Doctor Aun tried to carefully listen again and found that there was no such sound… He might actually mishear it.
As soon as he turned to the computer screen, the figure of the unborn child suddenly turned to look at him. The bloodshot eyes lit up. His mouth opened wide, revealing the tiny, sharp teeth of a devil. Startled up, he let the probe drop onto the ground, and flipped over from the chair amid the shock of the patient and nurses.
“What is it, doctor?”
The doctor did not answer. He quickly got up and tried to keep his trembling lips as still as possible. Then he smiled at the patient.
"It’s all done. I will have the nurse print a picture of the baby for you. Please excuse me.” Finishing his sentence, he flew out of the ultrasound room with a pale face and trembling limbs, causing the nurse in front of the room to look at him with a strange look.
The young doctor's brain began to freeze, his throat dried, and he was confident that he actually saw it. It had to be connected with all the strange things that happened to him a few days ago.
What did the baby and the woman with her early pregnancy that he saw want from him?
“If you want to think I was joking, then by all means. But let me tell you that she exists. The woman standing next to you, she now came to ask for your help. If you don't help her, she will follow you everywhere...anytime. So, if you want to know more, find me in the morgue at the back of the hospital.”
Suddenly, the old man's voice that he encountered at the ER ward sounded in his head. Or what the old man said was true...
Realizing that, the young doctor immediately headed to the morgue at the back of the hospital…
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After the nurse in the ultrasound room had walked out in front of the counter, another nurse, who was still puzzled by Doctor Aun's attitude, stood up and asked her friend curiously.
“Hey, what's wrong with Doctor Aun? Why did he bolt out? His face was so pale as if it had lost all the blood.”
"That’s right… I'm confused too. Doctor Aun was suddenly taken back as if he saw a ghost; then he escaped the ultrasound room."
“Ghost? I got goosebumps hearing that. Professor Kawee also cried out ‘Ghost! Ghost!’ yesterday in the delivery room. Then, it’s Doctor Aun acting strangely, what happened to our ward?”
It was a question... to which Doctor Aun was looking for an answer as well.
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Even though it was only about four o'clock in the afternoon, the sky was overcast. It was probably because of the influence of the storm entering the northeastern region this morning. Doctor Aun thought positively as he tried to find a reason for every equation according to his medical field. Although he secretly thought that the ashen atmosphere and the gusting wind like this might be a bad sign conveying something to him.
The giant tree branches in the hospital area swayed along with the wind. The sound of leaves rustling with each other made his hair stand on end. Doctor Aun walked past one building, traversing another building until he reached a small path leading the young doctor to the hospital's back, where the morgue was located!
Even if his steps were unhurried, his heart was beating fast as if he was running a race. His breath was so loud that he felt a little annoyed at himself. The gust blew up the dust until the doctor had to use his arms to protect his face. He strolled toward a single-story building that stood alone on the edge of a high cement wall. A barbed of thorns was set up as another barrier to prevent thieves from entering the hospital at night.
Here came Doctor Aun in front of the morgue!
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