I had a dream...

I was lying on a hospital bed in a small room and being given an IV drip. I am pretty scared of needles, especially the sight of needles entering veins or skin of any sort. So I turned my head away. And then I was wheeled on the bed through hospital doors into a surgery room. I watched the nurse tie on the surgeon's operating gown and watch him snap on his gloves just like in the movies. There I was, lying on the bed, with nurses all around me with their bright purple gloves. Why purple, I don't know. Isn't that too much of a bright color for hospital gloves? Anyway, they were all around me and they asked me to move from the bed with wheels to the operating bed. There was an uncomfortable roll of cloth right under my back but supposedly was necessary as the nurse said. I look directly above me and there's the 2 big round surgical lights, exactly like in Grey's Anatomy and I think to myself, how surreal this all feels. I listen to the nurses talk about how texting is so bad when people are driving and how it causes so many accidents. "What a random conversation!" I thought to myself. Then I see a breathing mask coming towards me, and I remember thinking how weird it would feel to have to breathe through that thing.

And then, the scene faded to the same room the dream began. Dong and QiaoWen was in the room. For some reason, the nurse in my dream kept calling Dong my husband, and I was really confused why. I don't remember getting married at any time! haha. Everything around me was really blurry and voices were fuzzy in my head. It was like I was underwater or something.

Then I was back in my apartment, lying on the couch with Dong next to me. Qiao wen was handing me a bowl of porridge that she cooked for me. Porridge with carrot, chicken and cauliflower, and half a spoon of marmite. Then Hui appeared in my dream, eating stir fry with General Tso's sauce on the floor. Then Bridget came back from class and we all watched a movie together. For some reason, they agreed to watch my old lady movie, Fried Green Tomatoes with me. Very unlike them, because they never agree to watch movies that I pick! Then Annie came through the door, and Joliana called, and everything was complete. I remember thinking to myself how lucky I was to have a dream like this, where all my best Miami friends were in my dream with me.

Ah, the Hershey Kiss is gone! And I am awake on a sunny but cold Friday morning!