Geri's night at the Hospital

Geri is lying down on the hospital bed, more than six months pregnant. Was feeling a little ill and she could not walk well. Her feet have swollen almost three sizes, she had slipped on shoes earlier that day but found it difficult to take them off.

The doctor took off the shoes with surgical scissors, leaving behind indentations the shoes had left into her feet. She trying to look down at her feet but couldn't see past her swollen stomach.

The doctor looked down at her feet in shock and the left the room. Geri is struggling to take a peak over at her feet but can't manage to catch a glimpse. Another doctor comes in.

"Stay still" he says directly at her.

With his bare hands, he massages one of her feet, it slowly changes its shape in his hands as he begins gently squeezing it. Geri exhales as she feels a heap of stress lift from her, even though she can't really feel it.

He spaces her five toes apart before pushing them together, merging them. He then pushes it down and folds it into the middle of her foot. It is like putty.

"Hey!" Geri yelled, increasing confused. "What are you doing with my foot? I can't feel my toes anymore".

"Your feet are still growing" He responded without changing expression. "I can feel it in my hands, but its under control".

From a severely swollen foot to a doughy heap vaguely resembling a foot, the doctor looked at it closely before picking up the other foot. It was of the same consistency.

Geri still couldn't see her feet, just the look on the nurse's face. He was curious.

With both hands, he squeezed the middle section of the other foot so the top half got larger until it detached from the rest of her foot and fell to the ground. She heard a small fleshy *thud* sound.

The male nurse bent over to pick it up and Geri could see what he was holding. The front-end of her foot, she could also recognize her toes, except it was all swollen. Oddly though, she hadn't been able to feel it.

"You call that under control?!" Geri says panicked. "That looks like part of my foot!". She would get up to leave but in her tired, pregnant state she couldn't.

The female doctor from earlier returned and put Geri to sleep.

*****

She woke up when it is dark and during the midnight. This time she tried to get herself off the bed and stand up. She managed to twist herself around so she is sitting upright. She looked down at her feet and can see two sock-covers resembling shower caps over her feet, still with no feeling.

She got herself to stand up right then slowly took a step at a time. She made it to a set of chairs on the other side of the room and sat down, slowly positioning herself with her legs length-ways across the chairs.

She attempted to reach over to pull the coverings off her feet be her pregnant belly got in the way.

Worried about the lack of feeling she still wasn't feeling, she tried using her feet to slide them off but she heard the door open as a man with a surgical mask came in, without a word.

"This is getting ridiculous!" Geri screamed at the masked doctor as he put his hands on her arm in an attempt to guide her back to her bed.

He put a finger to his mouth as he whispered let out "shhhhhh".

"I don't care I wake any-" he jabbed a needle into her arm and she suddenly talking. Although she is still awake, just obviously drugged.

He carried her back to bed then he put her legs up on metal stirrups then fixed a mirror so she can get a clear view of her feet.

They were severely deformed clumps of flesh. The doctor got some fishing wire and sliced it through her ANKLE until one of her feet fell off which hardly resembled a foot anymore. It was placed of a tray beside him. He repeated with her other deformed foot then he also placed in on the tray. Then he mashed the two clumps together, until it formed a single ball. Which then got tossed into a plastic bag.

"Hey that's my feet!" She said drowsily.

The doctor ignoring her got out a skin colored, rectangular block of what looks to be clay, removing the plastic packaging. He had cut off a large portion and started playing around with it in his hands before splitting it roughly equally and placing them into two foot shaped molds beside him.  He picks up the molds, slides them onto her ankles, and fastens them.

She finally drifts asleep.

Geri's eyes finally open as she notices the rays of morning sunlight shine into the room. Then notices the strange box-like contraptions around her feet as she remembers the horrors and confusion of what had taken place the night before.

A doctor comes in holding a tray with her breakfast on it and greats her good morning. She still has no appetite and instead asks what is happening with her feet.

"During pregnancy a women's feet would swell quite a bit" The doctor explained, not that she didn't already know. "Your's was quite bad but thankfully we caught it as your ankles were starting to swell up."

"What would happen if you had not caught it in time" She asked.

"Your feet would literally become a pile of goo. Not very easy to walk on you'd imagine"

"So you cut off my feet?"

"Well yeah, we replaced them with a new set that should be more manageable for you" The doctor starts to remove the molds off the feet, he sits her up so she can see her new feet which look how the were before the swelling.

He places his hand on the sole of her foot "Can you feel this?"

Geri nods.

"Okay I want to to wiggle your toes"

She does so successfully.

"Excellent, you are good to go home after breakfast"

The Doctor places her breakfast in front of her and leaves the room.

Geri looks over to another female patient across from her, also pregnant. A doctor is standing at her feet, rubbing his hands all around it, but the aren't in any sort of shape, more fluid heap flopping about in his hands. The doctor takes out a sort of plastic bag that looks something like a cross between a shower cap and a fishbowl (not unlike what she was wearing the night before) and places them over each foot to contain them in. 

Geri thought how much worse it could have been for her and how bad it could have been. "Feet are really weird" she said to her self as she got up and left.