Cursed By Fate

They waited for half an hour, after which one of the doctors walked out. They all stood up like soldiers who had just seen their commanding officer.

John was the first to speak “How is she?” he asked. “She has lost a lot of blood and we don’t have a blood bank here.” The doctor replied. “Can I donate or maybe do a direct transfusion?” John asked with desperation in his eyes.

“We’ll have to check if you both have the same blood group and are both compatible, as well as run tests for any issues or medical conditions, but first what’s your blood group?” the doctor asked.This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.

Just then, it dawned on John he was B- Negative and Caroline was O-positive. There was no way he could donate to her. He lowered his head. “I’m O-positive Doc, could you check to see if we are compatible,” Carl said from behind John.

“Yes, that would work. Come with me the doctor said. “Thank you so much,” John said as he embraced Carl. As soon as they got to the lab, Carl took a seat as instructed by the lab technician.

She took his hand and sanitized the area she was to collect her sample from and in a few minutes she was done. Carl left to rejoin the other two as they sat back awaiting the results.

Luckily, the results came back positive and they could proceed with the transfusion. Carl was asked to lay back on a reclining single couch. The nurse came in holding an empty blood bag, a tourniquet, and a transfusion syringe.

She sterilized his upper forearm and tied the tourniquet slightly above to reveal prominent veins. As she punctured the biggest one in sight the blood began to flow into the blood bag and it was filled up in under fifteen minutes.

“That’ll be all, just wait here for me to get back,” the nurse said as she smiled at Carl. She intended to apply a band-aid over the site of the collection and to instruct him to take things slow since he might feel a little drowsy after everything.

Carl on the other hand was too eager to rejoin Laura and so he left almost immediately after the nurse did.

The three of them were still in the waiting room when the surgeon arrived, he did not speak to anyone except the doctor who came out to receive him. He walked through them and into the restricted area which happened to be the theater.

He was barely in there for twenty minutes when he walked out. “It’s remarkable, I’ve been a surgeon for over seventeen years and I have never in any of those years seen anything like that,” The surgeon said as he asked the doctor to see Caroline’s family.

“You’re the husband?” he asked looking towards John. “Yes, I am” John replied with tears in his eyes. He gripped the surgeon by his arms and asked “Where is my wife? Why are you out so soon, did anything happen?”

Carl touched him on the shoulder signaling him to let the surgeon go. Eventually, John did. “I understand your situation but I need you to please calm down, your wife is fine.”

Laura’s eyes lit up with excitement as she heard those last few words. She turned and embraced Carl so tightly, that he almost could not breathe. The Surgeon went further to explain. Immediately after he removed the bullet, Caroline started bleeding internally.

He instructed the doctor assisting him to hang the blood bag which Carl had donated earlier.

“It’s nothing short of a miracle, I was just about to cauterize the bleeding artery which the bullet ruptured, when I found it had regenerated itself.” said the Surgeon. He went further to narrate that the damage done to the organs in her abdomen also was healed without him needing to operate or stitch any cuts or tears.

Upon seeing all of this he asked the doctor and nurse assisting him to stop everything they were doing and come watch the cell-by-cell tissue regeneration that was taking place right before his eyes.

“It’s true, I would not have believed it if I hadn’t witnessed it with my own eyes.” The doctor added. “Seeing the miracle that was unfolding before our eyes I asked the doctor to come with me as I needed an explanation to what I saw, hence why I needed to speak with her family” the surgeon concluded.

“Can I see her?” John asked as the expression on his face changed after listening to what both the Doctor and surgeon had to say.

“Not yet, although her vitals are stable we’re still observing her. We would not want anything to interrupt her healing process” the surgeon replied. He turned and walked back into the theater leaving them in the hand of the doctor.

Carl suspected that Caroline’s self-healing might have been a result of his blood. He turned to Laura as soon as he heard the surgeon explain and met her eyes focused on him. She nodded slightly as though she understood what he wanted to say without him having to use his words.

Just then they all heard an ambulance siren as it sped in through the driveway. The nurse and Doctor who had been talking to John ran towards the entrance. The ambulance was escorted by some policemen so they knew it was something serious.

“Bring the gurneys” yelled the emergency response team as they opened the backdoor of the vehicle. The police officers assisted them as they carried out two bodies covered in blood. They had been mutilated.

“This is a veterinary clinic officer” the doctor exclaimed. “I know doc and those two are dead, but I need you to tell me what kind of freak of nature would do that to those poor men.” Said the officer in response.

“Take the bodies to the morgue, I’ll get started and call the coroner,” the doctor said as he ran through the lobby in a different direction.

Carl headed towards the bodies as he perceived a familiar scent. Laura followed behind and as they came upon the bodies being dragged through the lobby, her eyes widened in horror. It was Jack and Lyon.