The Doctor

Doctor

She had not experienced this kind 
of infection before. 
It is more than a toilet infection. 
It looks more like a sexually 
transmitted infection. 
She was not having a multiple partner. 
That means her partner was. 
He was not a boyfriend per se. 
He was just a friend. 
A friend with benefit. 
She told him of it. 
He was not too bothered. 
He told her he would take 
care of himself. 
What about her? He advised her to 
take care of herself too. 
She tried to manage it by using 
some regular antibiotics. 
The infection got worse and made 
her very uncomfortable. 
She had no other choice than to 
see a doctor. 
She went to the nearest General Hospital 
in her area. 
The doctor she met ask the necessary 
questions and recommended to run a test. 
She took the test result to him and 
expected the medication to be given. 
The doctor told her to wait while he 
attends to others. 
He said he will come back to her after 
he is done for the day with the last 
patient on the queue waiting to see him. 
She wondered why the wait if it was just 
to write out the medicine to cure the 
disease. 
She waited as instructed. 
By the time the doctor was ready to 
see her it was around 7pm. 
All the other patients are gone. 
He told her to lay on the examining 
table and remove the lower part of 
her dress. 
She did and waited patiently for him. 
The next thing she knew was the doctor's 
gloved hands dipping into her well. 
She held his hand in reflex. 
He unlocked her grip with his other hand 
and told her he needed to do this 
before he concludes what medicine to 
recommend. 
He continued his thrusting while she closed
 her eyes and endured the pain in humiliation. 
After a little while she could not bear it 
any longer. 
She pulled out his hand and told 
him to stop because she was uncomfortable. 
He answered her saying she should be 
enjoying it after all that is what 
she likes. 
It was that statement from him that 
made her realise what he was doing is 
not medical examination! 
It is sexual molestation. 
She sat up then and wondered where 
things were leading. 
The doctor told her to dress up and 
go to a particular room down a corridor 
from the consulting office they were. 
She knew something was about to happen. 
When she got to the specified room 
there was only a bed in that room. 
"This is one chance and she had 
boarded it! 
The doctor's intention was clear. 
She started thinking of what she 
should do. 
Prayer didn't even come to her mind. 
'If she beg him will he hear' . 
'If she refuse will he rape her'
'Maybe she should leave and go home'
'Maybe ....' 
But she needed the drugs badly...
So many thoughts went through her head 
yet she could not decide what to do. 
She just stood in the room lost in 
thought while looking at the bed. 
Before long the doctor came in. 
He didn't mince words. 
He told her to remove her clothes 
so that he can get started and 
finish on time as it's getting late. 
She started sobbing and begging him. 
He looked at her like 
"what's wrong with you nah?" 
She kept on crying and begging. 
After a while the doctor told her 
he will write out a prescription for 
the infection but he will not give 
the complete medicine so that she 
will come back again. 
When she come back again they will 
complete this unfinished business. 
She just said okay. 
All she wanted was to leave that 
place and never come back again 
no matter what. 
True to his words the doctor gave 
some prescriptions which only stopped 
the pain and discharge of the 
infection within the time she used 
the medication. 
Immediately the medicine finished 
the infection recurred. 
This time she could not keep quiet
She was also scared of going back 
to that hospital. 
She told her roommate in school. 
Her room mate had compassion on 
her and took her to the school doctor. 
Her roommate knew the school doctor 
very well. The school doctor was a 
grandfather kind of person, 
an elderly man. 
He counselled her and recommended 
some drugs that cured the infection 
totally. 
Immediately after she was cured 
she became celibate, faced her 
studies and was closer to God than ever 
before she had been in her life.

Abike, 2019