The Patience Is Awake
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Chapter five, the patient is awake. At 31 the head nurse had thought she'd seen it all. Hesitantly, she glanced down at her side, and they're in the dim light of the room. Holding her by her wrist was the very same person's hand that everyone said would never regain consciousness again, his ghostly fingers wrapped tightly about his slender part of a joint. Slowly, she let her eyes drift from her hand upward until they were even with his face and found the patient's eyes wide open and wild looking and gazing straight out of her. Surely she thought to herself, there had to be some kind of explanation for what was taking place in that. But try as she might medical professional, could not think of one. The whole event had taken her by surprise. Her breathing was labored, as if someone has suddenly tied wet leather bands about her chest until they were now beginning to dry and constrict the rise and fall her lungs so that she was self suffocating, almost from and thus limiting her ability to scream out in the same process the way she wanted to. She was so caught up in the moment of it all that she had lost her ability to even speak. Then she was slammed a second time by another surprise were there in the shadows. She saw the patient's lips beginning to part for the very first time he rasped about breaking the psalms that had lingered between them for so long. Yet no sooner had he uttered those words than the nurse realized right away that the Marine was indeed conscious, and she began trying to think of what to do next. Maybe I should get staff members in here to help me with patients, but her training took over. Wait a minute. That won't work. I can't just up and leave the poor fellow. What if you start choking? No, Think girl. Think there was a brief pause. Talk to him, Megan. She that's it. She then considered her next move, hoping as she did that she would be able to reassure the patient that everything was okay and that he was safe and sound back in the States