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"She’s in rooht down the hall and make a left"

"Thanks," Rachel said, as she started in that direction

Nobody told her what to expect when she saw her mother for the first time and nobody could have prepared her for what she saw as she entered room 501 Her mom lay there, under the white hospital sheets with her head wrapped in bandages and air tubes co out of her nose and mouth There ires hooked up to her body that poked out of the sheets and hooked up to loud beeping monitors that sat at the side of her bed

Rachel walked in slowly and quietly towards herof the bed and noticed that her eyes were taped shut, too It looked to her as if herA tear fell from her eyes and rolled down her cheek, and landed on the white sheet that covered her rabbed herout of her wrist She clutched onto it, happily feeling the warmth of her body

BEEP BEEP BEEP

Her eyes quickly focused on the monitor next to her bed as it started to beep louder and more frequently The line that ran across the screen was ju up and down in an erratic rhythm The noises and the whole situation an to feel panicked Was her ?

She watched as two nurses ca into her rooht in both of the her pupils expand and contract and then checked each of her heart htly secured to the round patches stuck to her skin

"Is she OK?" Rachel asked, in fear

"Shh," one nurse said "We’re checking that out now"

"She’s never done this before," the other nurse said "It’s al up?"

"Is she OK? Please say she’s OK and that’s she not dying!" Rachel begged

"Doctor! Doctor!" the nurse yelled out of the roo a white lab coat and scrubs

"What’s going on here?" he said, looking at the nurses

"Look! Her heart rate is pluet the AED," the nurse yelled

Rachel watched in horror as the nurse ran out and ran back in with thefro had stopped It reminded her of when people would flat line in the movies, except this wasn’t a movie, this was real life and it was her mother on the other end It was all tooas she slunk down to the floor put her head in her lap

She could still her the commotion from inside the room as the nurses and doctor tried to revive her She couldn’t believe as happening and she hoped it wasn’t her fault She hoped that she didn’t cause this Perhaps her mom sensed that she was there to see her and went into shock She felt awful

One of the nurses ca slowly out of the room and over towards her computer station

"What happened? Is she OK? Please tell me she’s alive!" Rachel asked in fear

The nurse looked over at her, smiled and then said, "She is OK The doctor will tell you more"

"Will she make it?" Rachel asked

"Why don’t you wait to talk to the doctor? He will be out in a fewher up in there," the nurse said

"Please just tell me I can’t wait Please!" Rachel yelled "That’s ht with you," the nurse said, as she turned and walked away

Rachel couldn’t believe how cold this nurse was to her She’d never experienced a situation like this before and she never expected the nurse of all people to shrug her off like that Sometimes she wondered about people She couldn’t understand why they acted the way they did sometimes Especially in hard situations like this one She would have assumed the nurse of all people would havelady?" the doctor said from inside the room

"Me?" Rachel asked as she peeked her head in

"Yes, what’s your name?" the doctor asked

"I’m Rachel That’s my mom," she said

"Rachel, Dear I haven’t seen you here before," the doctor said

"I’ with your mom since she arrived a while back"

"Dr Henley, will my mom be OK? What happened to her?" Rachel asked, with a worried look on her face