I woke to a beeping sound. Oh right, I was in the hospital. I climbed out of bed, looking at my leg cast with disdain. Ugh, that was just great. I felt nauseated and had to stand still for a few seconds to settle my stomach. I couldn’t even remember which hospital I was in.
I smoothed out the patient's bed I had been napping on as best I could with one hoof. Wait, hoof? Oh right, I was a pony now. My name was Green - that’s what they’ve been calling me. I looked around for my clipboard, which would have the handover sheet with my notes so I could remember what the heck was going on, but gave up when I heard another beep. I sighed. Why can’t they just answer patient calls, they must know I’m on my break. I walked out into the hall, squinting as my eyes struggled to adjust to the brighter lights, my eyes hurt.
I saw the call light above a patient room and knocked softly before entering. I grumbled for a moment about not knowing how to answer the call light in this facility, but such was life when you were working for an agency.
"Hi," I greeted, "My name is Green, I'm one of the nurses looking after you tonight, did you need some help?"
A red stallion with both his forelegs in plaster looked at me and smiled.
"I think you're a little young to be a nurse sweetie." The stallion condescended.
I gave him a stern expression.
"Aren't you the cutest lil' thing!" He exclaimed, "Are you lost?"
Ugh, I was too tired for this crap.
"Sir, please don't refer to me or my colleagues with that type of language, it's disrespectful." I explained curtly, "We are professionals. We treat you with respect and we would ask that you give us the same courtesy."
The patient looked appropriately contrite, but also very confused. Maybe I should check his mental state?
"Green!" There was a stern voice from behind me, "What are you doing?"
I cocked my head to the side in confusion and followed the other nurse out into the hallway.
"Green," The blue nurse scolded, "I know you're trying to help, but you can't go in other patient's rooms, okay?"
"Geeze, all right," I rolled my eyes, "It's not like I'm trying to steal your patients. Have you seen my handover sheet? I can't find it anywhere."
The pink Pegasus at the nurses' station covered her mouth with a wing before bursting into a fit of giggles.
"Oh Celestia!" She exclaimed, "That's so adorable!"
"Please don't encourage her." The blue Unicorn had broken eye contact and was clearly suppressing the urge to smile.
"All right Greenie," The pink Pegasus said in a bubbly voice, "Let's get you back to bed and you can worry about all that in the morning, okay?"
The pink Pegasus burst forward with a small flap of her wings and I had the sudden fear that she would crash into me, she was so much bigger than me, I’d be crushed. I leaped away - and smacked my cast into the wall.
Pain erupted from my leg. I let out a short scream of pain before I managed to force my mouth closed. I squeezed tight my eyes and I could feel tears forming.
It will pass. Focus. Breathe.
"Oh my gosh," The nurse exclaimed, "Are you okay?"
"I'll live." I tried to keep my voice even. I failed and had to choke back a sob.
It took three long, shuddering breath cycles before the pain reduced to a level where I could relax enough to open my eyes.
Two enormous eyes filled my vision, staring at me. I jerked my head back, quickly getting to my hooves - and smashing my head into the handrail on the wall. There was an audible thunk, but it didn't really hurt at all, at least not compared to my leg. I heard a gasp of shocked concern from the nurse.
"I'm okay!" I said automatically, "Sorry, I'm just a bit clumsy tonight. Ugh, so tired. Can you watch my patients for a moment while I get some coffee?"
The world was tinted blue, and she gently lifted me into the air. It didn't feel like I was falling, or being lifted by anything. I was more like floating in pleasantly warm, but fizzy water. I could feel the concern and reassurance of the Unicorn flowing through the magic she was using to lift me.
When she tucked me into bed, I could barely keep my eyes open.
"I'm jus' gonna res' my eyes for a momen'." I mumbled, "Wake me if anything happens, okay?"
I yawned.
"Just get some rest." She said in a soothing tone, "We'll take care of everything."
"You guys are awesome..." I drifted off before I even finished the sentence.
Get well soon!
lol someone real out of it.
You know it's OK to skip a week now and then. You can make up for it later.
That pony really needs to learn how to deal with patients. You don't just lunge at and try to grab someone like that for nothing.
Also of note, if the ponies at the hospital were to disregard him not being a pony it would require them to ignore quite a lot. For one, being vastly more mature than a filly should be and having an entire lifetime of memories that don't match his body, and are far to detailed and consistent to be false. Plus anyone who says he should just be happy to be a filly can be replied to with stating that they're implying being male or not a pony is bad. Or that they're saying the hospital supports magically transforming people into things they aren't to take away their lives. Say, someone turns the dragon Spike into a foal, then they legally are Spike's parent and may force him to be a foal forever and take him away.
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Yeah, it's generally a bad idea to startle patients, especially when they're confused.
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What this one said.
Horse words are important, but health is far more so!
You lay those flanks down and rest, mister, before I figure out how to send a human incarnation of Fluttershy over there with chicken soup or something!
Listen to yourself, ya hear?!
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I'm too tired to respond, mostly because I had to reread your comment three times to nail down what you were saying.
But yes, that would be hard to ignore as long as they are keeping detailed records of the delusions. I am unfamiliar with that area of medicine though, I only have the stories of the various people who are nurses to go off of, but I am under the impression that regularly you wouldn't do that. But, again, this world has magic, so who knows what the upper limit of believability is. Hell, the hospital may just find it easier to say the memories were magically implanted. Its been shown that modifying gender and race seems to be some of the most difficult magic out there, whilst altering the mind, at least as far as I've understood, would be far easier.
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Thanks for the support guys! You'll be pleased to know I posted this chapter on my phone while laying in my cosy bed. I think I'm over the worst of it now.
Sick during the week of Thanksgiving? You must be feeling pretty cheated right about now.
Oh i can’t wait to see what they misinterpret that as. This story’s great
I do like how the situation makes it look from the outside like Green is latching onto or emulating the nurses or other medical staff she might have encountered, rather than her behavior being sourced from any personal experience.
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That implies the author is American, of course.
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Of course the author is American, why else would they use Fahrenheit?
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Definitely not to appeal to a greater audience, of course.
Also Farenheit could also mean you're Burmese or Liberian, so it doesn't work 100% even then.
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The ratio is a bit better than that these days, especially with the younger nurses, but it's still overwhelmingly a female field.
My class in nursing school was about 5:1 IIRC.
I see they have her on the good drugs.
This was a very fun chapter. Must be very surreal for our poor protagonist.
Guess she is so confused she mixed past human and present filly experiences into... This?
Maybe she needs a overwatch/guard? Cant let her walk around that confused...
So adorable! Ahhhhh!!!
Processing... It's been stated three times she's felt emotions... Is she a changeling? 😘
This chapter was adorable and hilarious.
Doctor Doctor, I'm a Doctor. The sight of a small child patient pretending to be a doctor would be cute, actually.
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(♥‿♥)That’s so cute~
ヽ(o´∀`)ノ Awe...
o(>ω<)o I want to nurse her back to health
> and smashing my head into the handrail on the wall
Why is one of those even there to be smashed into?
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Yeah, weird to have a wall in a hospital.
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Well, handrails are usually for people who have trouble walking. But, I'm not sure who in a hospital would have trouble walking...
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You walk on your own without a crutch? Lean your weight as a pony onto that would be better than a flat wall.
Green sure mended their lack of 'dawww moments'
Green could need a plushie to hug to make her weapon grade adorable.
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Brilliant smiles ♡
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Tents are way more forgiving
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All the poor Doctors and Nurses of course...
I love this mentally unstable yet logical state of mind. This chapter was a banger.
This is Fucking Amazing