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Heavy sedation?

Mo the closest to the bed She picked up my hand, the one with the IV “This is Dr Arnold He was the one who” Lowering her chin, she shook her head as she drehat sounded like a halted breath

I knehatever she couldn’t say was pretty serious, and as I stared at her, I saw her inover contracts She’d been wearing her reading glasses, and she’d told ain, I had to answer it And she’d said so else

Be careful

Always

When had that been? Saturday Saturday before—

Dr Arnold sat on the edge of the bed, crossing one knee over the over “You are a very lucky young lady”

Focusing on hi to have to take his word for it, because I had no idea as going on

Molanced at her, she looked like she was on the verge of tears Her eyes were just as puffy and red rimmed as Lori’s

The doctor reached to the front of the bed and lifted a chart up “Other than tired, how are you feeling?”

I sed and it was like sandpaper rubbing together “Tired And II don’t feel good”

“That’s probably the leftover effects of the sedation,” he said, running his fingers along the center of the chart “We’ve got you on soht now, so that can also make you feel a little sick That said, how is the pain?”

“Ulanced at Mohurts”

“You took quite a beating,” Dr Arnold replied, and ht it had been a car accident Before I could ask, he continued “You suffered a concussion, but there’s been no evidence of swelling of the brain As long as that re to be out of the woods in that area” He scanned the chart “You oing to be in a cast for anywhere from three to six weeks”

I blinked slowly A cast?

Butup

I lifted my left arm and it throbbed dully Yep There was definitely a cast aroundabout this felt real

“II can’t be in a cast I playvolleyball”

“Honey” Moain “There is no need to worry about volleyball right now That is the last thing you should be stressing over”

How could I not stress over it? It was ht I could catch the eye of a scout, and Megan would be so ticked off if I couldn’t play

Dr Arnold closed the chart “You’ve had so trauma to your chest, which caused a bilateral pneumothorax”

I stared at him blankly Pneumo-what?

He s my confusion “It basically means you had air in your chest cavity, which put pressure on the lung and prevented it frole sided and the puncture is so et the air out”

I had a feeling, based on how es, that wasn’t what had happened here

“In your case, you broke ribs on both sides, puncturing your thorax on both sides, so both of your lungs collapsed and were unable to compensate I cannot stress how serious of a situation that is When we have two lungs doe often aren’t having a conversation with the patient later”

Mo it over her face She stopped with her fingers covering her mouth

The doctor draped one arery on both sides” He gestured to the location on his body “To remove the air and seal off the leaks”

Holy

Crap

“We wanted to give your lungs time to recover, so we’ve had you heavily sedated and let thefor you, but we didn’t have to keep you under very long You were ready to wake up yesterday” Dr Arnold sain