Sorry I didn't put chapter 1 above the last chapter I will not forget again sorry.
Chapter 2I woke up with a massive pain in my chest. PANIC. Was my only thought that crossed my mind! I couldn't move. I pressed the large green button at the side of my bed (as I have been in and out of hospital my whole life you start to know that the big green button is the norm, I mean if you need assistance or (like me) have only just come to you can get someone in immediately) a rather young nurse came in looking frantic. The searing pain in my chest was too distracting to hear what she was muttering to herself about and I could not properly focus on her until she sat on the edge of my bed, she was close enough to concentrate on now.
"What is going on? " I asked not entirely wanting an answer
"Your lungs where swimming with water again and with you not getting oxygen your lungs gave up"
"So why am I here?, how am I still alive?"
"Evan though your doctor said that at this stage a lung transplant wouldn't be affective and it may kill you, you were on the verge of death anyway and so we thought we would give it a shot and well here you are, possibly NEC!"
"What?"
"You may no longer have cancer"
That was the best feeling I have ever had. The pain was still there in my chest but thinking that I may no longer have to pull along the cart and have the cannula numbing my nose and the roaring of the BiPAP every night. My parents and Dr Maria came bustling through the door and over towards my bed. She lifted up my top to reveal a humongous scar across my chest from the operation. My chest had calmed down now but the pain was the only thing on my mind. The fact that I was practically a normal teenager again but yet I was still in pain. There was no sense made.
"I have good news and bad news." Dr Maria started "you are now officially NEC but from now on every two months we have to have you in overnight to check that the lungs are doing as they are supposed to"
"Oh my god, thank you so much" my dad says with tears streaming down his face I was still in a lot of pain though
"Erm… if I am NEC how come my chest feels like fireworks are going off inside?" I ask worried
"Your body is just reacting with your new lungs. It may take a while to stop as it is not like a kidney transplant it is much more severe so it could take up to, well at the very most a year"
A year. How am I going to cope with this pain for up to a year? I wander how Isaac is, I bet he is worried. Just as that thought crosses my mind my mom says that he has been waiting in the waiting area for the whole three days I have been unconscious. My parents had no idea or say in my transplant and have only just found on therefore have been waiting with him the whole time.
"Would you be ok seeing him, I mean they called us in and he wasn't allowed to come in case you didn't want him there. Why don't you tell him the good news?"
"Yeah" I said wanting to assure him that I was ok. I hope he wasn't too worried about me he has his own reasons to be stressed without me on his plate. Although we were the only real friends of each other now.
"Hi" he said walking through the door
"Hi"
"How are you?"
"Well I am now officially NEC"
"Oh my got that is amazing, how?
"Lung transplant"
"I thought you said that you couldn't have one because it wouldn't make a difference and there is a chance of death!"
"I did but because I was about to die anyway without oxygen so they gave it a go and well here I am"
His golden hair stooped over one side of his face and suddenly he lent in to me. I closed my eyes. I was excited and nervous all at the same time. His lips touched mine and I felt like I was back with Gus, when we were sat next to the bones sculpture. He slowly pulled away and the biggest smile ever crossed my face, his too.
"Sorry I just had to do that!" he announced "I think I'm in love with you Hazel Grace!"
