7 The Recovery Room

CHAPTER 7 The Recovery Room "Five! Four! Three! Two! One!" Dr. Marconi shouted. She wasn't in her scrubs anymore. She was wearing a suit and a top hat. "Okay, let's get this show started," Dr. Fuentes said. I don't know why he was dressed like a gorilla. "No, wait!" I cried. "I'm not asleep yet. I'm still awake. I'm still WIDE AWAKE!" "Patricia, turn up the music, will you?" Dr. Marconi said. "I can't hear my cue."

第七章 复苏室 “五！四！ 三！ 二！ 一！” 马可尼医生大喊道。 她已经没穿手术服了。 她穿着一身西装，还戴了顶高顶礼帽。 “好啦，咱们这就开场吧。”富恩特斯医生说。 我搞不懂他为什么打扮得像只大猩猩。 “不对，等一下！” 我大喊起来。 “我还没睡着呢。 我还醒着。 我还清醒得很呢！” “帕特里夏，把音乐开大点，好吗？” 马可尼医生说。 “我听不到我的出场提示音了。”

Patricia didn't look like herself anymore. She looked like Willa. Except not the same size. No, this Willa was as small as a fairy you could cup in your hand, and she floated over to the DJ booth at the corner of the operating room. I hadn't noticed a DJ booth before. "What's going on?" I asked Peter, who was right next to me. But he was wearing the gas mask, and he was sound asleep. Some music started blasting. It was the Barbra Streisand show tunes that Grandma always played in the car, but the words were all wrong, like the way Penny would sing them. The Willa-Patricia-fairy twirled up higher and higher until she floated into the sky. "Where are you going?" I asked. "To Pennsylvania," she said, and she was gone. "Let's get started," Dr. Fuentes said again.

帕特里夏看着和平时不一样了。 她看起来像薇拉。 只是个头不一样。 不对，这个薇拉小得像只仙女，你用手就能捧住，她飘向手术室角落的DJ台。 我之前都没注意到这儿有个DJ台。 “发生什么事了？” 我问就在我旁边的彼得。 可他戴着氧气面罩，睡得正香呢。 突然响起了震耳欲聋的音乐。 是奶奶总在车里放的芭芭拉·史翠珊的表演曲目，可歌词全不对，就像彭妮唱的那样。 这个薇拉模样的帕特里夏小精灵转着圈越飞越高，一直飘到了天上。 “你要去哪里呀？” 我问。 “去宾夕法尼亚。”她说完就不见了。 “咱们开始吧。”富恩特斯医生又说了一遍。

"No! I'm still awake! And I don't even have Patricia with me anymore! She flew away and left me!" Dr. Marconi took off her top hat and smeared Very Cherry lip gloss all over her lips. "Which leg is it again?" "You get to pick," Dr. Fuentes said. "Hold on, I have a call." Dr. Marconi did eeny meeny miny moe on my legs. Then she lifted my left leg and said, "I think I'll operate on this." "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!" I cried. "Phone for you," Dr. Fuentes the gorilla told Dr. Marconi, holding out a banana. Then he took my left leg in his big gorilla hands. "I'll take care of this," he said. "Help me!" I said to Peter, but he just rolled over in his sleep. I searched the sky for Patricia. I couldn't

“不要！我还醒着呢！ 而且帕特里夏都不在我身边了！ 她飞走了，丢下我了！” 马可尼医生摘下她的高顶礼帽，把“超棒樱桃”味的唇釉涂得满嘴唇都是。 “到底是哪条腿来着？” “你可以自己选呀。”富恩特斯医生说。 “等一下，我有个电话。” 马可尼医生对着我的腿念起“点兵点将”的顺口溜来选。 然后她抬起我的左腿说：“我觉得就给这条腿做手术吧。” “不——————！！！！！！！” 我哭喊起来。 “你的电话。”大猩猩模样的富恩特斯医生递给马可尼医生一根香蕉，对她说。 然后他用那双大猩猩的大手握住了我的左腿。 “这事交给我就行。”他说。 “救救我！” 我对彼得说，可他只是睡着翻了个身。 我望着天上找帕特里夏。 我找不到

see her, but I raised my right hand anyway. That was our signal. I raised it as high as I could and I waved it around and around. "I'm awake!" I cried. "Patricia, if you can hear me, I'm awake I'm awake I'm awake! WILLAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!" Someone was speaking. I didn't recognize the voice, but she knew me. "I think Stella Batts is awake," she said. "I know I'm awake!" I said. "That's what I've been trying to tell everyone!" But my voice wasn't working and my eyes were closed. It was hard to open my eyes. Why was it so hard to open my eyes? I tried my voice again. "Mmm mmm," I said. "What was that, sweetheart?" There were sounds all around—beeps

她，但我还是举起了我的右手。 那是我们约定的信号。 我拼尽全力把手举得高高的，挥了一圈又一圈。 “我醒着啊！” 我大喊着。 “帕特里夏，如果你能听到，我醒着，我醒着，我醒着啊！ 薇拉————！！！！！！！！！！” 有人在说话。 我认不出这个声音，可她认识我。 “我觉得斯特拉·巴茨醒了。”她说。 “我当然醒着啊！” 我说。 “我一直都在跟大家说这件事啊！” 可我发不出声音，眼睛也睁不开。 要睁开眼睛好难啊。 为什么睁眼睛会这么难呀？ 我又试着发出声音。 “嗯……嗯……”我哼着。 “你说什么呀，小宝贝？” 周围全是声音——哔哔

and blips, and footsteps, and things being wheeled around, and more voices. I tried talking again. "Help me! Help!" "There, there," the stranger said. There was a cool hand on my hand. "Your parents will be here soon. Don't worry. You're fine. Don't worry." "I didn't fall asleep yet," I said. I opened my eyes, just a crack. Everything was fuzzy. "Don't let them start yet. I didn't fall asleep." I tried to lift my other hand, the hand that wasn't being held, to wipe my eyes. But something hurt and pulled me back. "Help!" I said. "I'm tied down!" "Stella, it's okay," the voice said. A hand was on my forehead now. "What's happening to me?" I cried. "You still have the IV in. But the operation is all over. It went great."

的提示音，还有脚步声，东西被推来推去的声响，还有更多说话声。 我又试着说话。 “救救我！ 救命啊！” “好啦好啦，没事的。”那个陌生的声音说。 有一只凉凉的手覆在了我的手上。 “你爸爸妈妈很快就来了。 别担心。 你没事的。 别担心哦。” “我还没睡着呢。”我说。 我把眼睛睁开了一条缝。 所有东西都模模糊糊的。 “别让他们开始做手术啊。 我还没睡着呢。” 我想抬起另一只没被握住的手，擦擦眼睛。 可某个地方疼得厉害，把我拽了回去。 “救命啊！” 我喊道。 “我被绑住了！” “斯特拉，没事的。”那个声音说。 现在有一只手放在了我的额头上。 “我怎么了呀？”我哭着问。 “你手上还扎着留置针呢。 不过手术已经全部做完啦。 做得很顺利。”