Mazin Grace by Dylan Coleman

Author:Dylan Coleman
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: FIC000000;FIC043000;FIC051000
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Published: 2012-06-27T04:00:00+00:00

Time’s going by real fast, lots and lots of months go by, and I feel like I’ve been in the Children’s ’Ospital forever. Not many people come to visit me, though, and I don’t even think of my family much any more. I’ve even stopped worryin’ about when my leg will get better so I can go ’ome. People who were strangers, like the old handy man and Teacher and the Salvation Army ladies are the ones I now look forward to visiting me, and Terry too of course, who I see at different times, but sometimes with big gaps in between.

One day my bed is moved inside the big ward and I’m put in a special room. Everybody has to put on these white face masks, gowns and gloves. I haven’t had any visitors for a long time. No Salvation Army lady or Teacher, nobody, only nurses with wada mooga on their wah and white gloves on their murra mooga. I feelin’ sick, hot and my eyes hurt when the big lights on in that minya room. When I notice red rashy things on my body I asked one of the nice nurses, ‘Why am I in this little room all by myself and what’s these minya spots on me?’

‘You have measles,’ the nice nurse said, smilin’ at me sorry-way, ‘and you’re locked away for a little while so the other kids won’t catch it from you. That’s why we are wearing these.’ She holds ’er murra mooga up to me then.

I lie back in bed quiet-way and wait for the itchy red rashes to go away. Then after a while I get wheeled back into my room again. I’m even happy to see that bully boy again. My bed’s outside on the balcony. It has sides on it like a cot but the nurses can pull them up and down when they want to.

Sometimes my jinna hurts and when they bring nice mai, I can’t eat it because I feel too sick but them nurse mooga sit there and make me eat. They tell me I’m too skinny and gotta put on more weight and nice food will ’elp my jinna get better. My best mai’s in the mornin’ before dinner time when they give me nice drink with green leaf in it and apple and cheese. I really like that.

Walbiya visitors come into the ward not long after I come out of that minya room. I’m thinkin’ ‘what big sooks’, what they cryin’ for. Then when they go ’way, I see a minya stretcher being carried out by fellas who work there and it’s got a sheet coverin’ it. What’re they carryin’? I wonder.

Not long after, I get a visit from my Burns Aunties, Vera, Bertha and Janet. They all live on the Mission but go away sometimes to work. When I see them walk through the door I’m so ’appy, it’s like bein’ back ’ome again. I feel really good inside knowing that they came all the way from ’ome to see me.

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