Meant to Be - Part 2

     I don't know how much time passes while I'm in this state of nothingness, but eventually I awake to a white room and soft fluorescent lighting. I distantly hear hushed voices and footsteps, the clicking, humming and beeping of machines. My body throbs and aches, the pain makes me wonder momentarily if  I've died and somehow ended up in hell, but hell is supposed to be fire and this is just a world of white, closing in around me, pressing on me, am I dreaming?
     A face appears over me, it's familiar... mom? She's saying something but I can only see her lips moving her voice is distant and I wonder what's happening, then I realize I'm closing my eyes. I try to reopen them but I can't, they feel heavy and I feel drowsy. Something bumps me and a shivering pain shoots through me, the kind of pain that doesn't just hurt, it's aches, in an indescribably, excruciating way that leaves you paralyzed and wanting to scream.
     Where am I? What's going on? My whole being is throbbing and aching and my mind feels numbed, like it's been shot with Novocaine. I try to remember what happened, how I got here. A ghost of a memory hovers around the edges of my thoughts, but when I try to make sense of it, it eludes me.
     Finally I give up, trying not to concentrate on the pain in every inch of me, laying totally still because even the slightest jarring is excruciating! I drift back into nothingness, but not the light painful nothingness of before, this time, even nothingness is laced with and haunted by pain!