A Trip to the Zoo

Maki downstairs is a nurse at the hospital. Today she told me she saw something really gross. A man had been in a motorcycle accident and lost his leg. He was conscious and the doctor was holding up his leg and taking pictures of it. She told me he lived but another patient didn't. He was, until this afternoon, a six year-old boy. His heart stopped working for some reason. What made it sadder for the both of us somehow was that he went on his school trip to the zoo today. Today he had fun at the zoo. He ate lunch. He felt sick and threw up. Then he died at the hospital. His mother is a nurse so she understood a little bit. His grandmother kept screaming, "I'll die instead." That is just terribly, terribly sad.