[[ Ch 3. Pain ]]
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"Hey there, my name is Alyssa. I'm your room nurse. How are you feeling?"
Spike clears his throat & begins speaking raspy & emotionless, "Kinda numb."
"Yeah, we gave you a bunch of painkillers last night. You were shaking."
He takes a deep breath, "Oh."
"Let me just check your temperature." she clicks the thermometer into his ear & reads it. "100.2, it's getting better, but still pretty high. How's your headache?"
"Not as bad."
"Apart from your right leg, are unable to control or move another body part?"
"No."
So you're feeling better from before?
"A little."
Nurse Alyssa sits down with the medical report, "Now, can you give us your name?
"My name?"
"Yeah, can you tell me your name?" she watches him closely, but he stays quiet.
"Okay, anything? Any information about yourself?"
He shakes his head.
She sighs," Do you remember what happened the night of the accident a few days ago?", she waits for some kind of response, but gets nothing. She writes something on the database. "Alright, I leave you alone for awhile so you can get some rest. If you need anything, just buzz in." she smiles at him and leaves the room.
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"Owwww, it hurts. Shit!"
"Dawn, watch your language. This is all you fault, anyway. I told you not to come along. Now hold still let me check it out." says Buffy, as she examines the big, bloody cut on Dawn's shoulder.
Xander walks in from the kitchen, "What's going on?"
"Dawn insisted on going after this demon with me, & got her shoulder slashed." says Buffy, "By the way, where did you come from?"
"Kitchen." Xander says, pointing behind him. "I got hungry & deciding to mosey on over."
"This pain is horrible, God, I feel like he hit the bone or something, Ugh!," Dawn yells, while biting her lip.
"I should probably take you to the hospital; I can't tell how deep it is. Xander, can you help?"
"Sure." He picks up Dawn & they go to the car.
"Ooh, don't touch it!"
"Whoops, sorry bout that."
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"It's been a couple days since he first arrived & he is still unable to tell any us information. He can't remember anything about the accident or about him."
"Yeah, it's just as we had suspected from what we checked on the tests we ran on him earlier. We believe he is suffering from Type B Amnesia."
"Refresh my memory what is Type B, again?"
"He has common knowledge of things, he knows how to complete everyday tasks. For example, he remembers how to chew & swallow food, and he knows what a hospital or a nurse is, but anything regarding himself or his past he has no recollection of." he replies.
"Is it temporary or long-term?"
"That, we are uncertain of. We have to perform more tests & analysis on him. But mostly we just have to wait & see if he remembers anything."
"So in the meantime what are we gonna do, we need some kind of information on him."
"Well, we checked on the police files, and we think we know who he is."
"Oh really?"
"What do we have?"
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I don't know what's worse…
This throbbing pain inside my head. Not being able to move or feel anything on my leg.
The needles they keeping sticking in my wrists & veins. The overall soreness all around my body.
Having the nurses & doctors coming in & out checking on me, asking my all these questions.
Or maybe what's worse is the fact that I honestly can't answer them…
The leg, definitely the leg is the worst.
I'm completely incapable of moving it. I have no control of it whatsoever. I try, and I try… with all my might but nothing. It won't move, not even a single budge. I can't even feel it. The doctors keep examining it & poking it but I don't feel anything, not a bloody thing! It really freaks me out…
I'd rather it hurt, I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all. Cuz' then I'd at least feel something…
So what am I going to do about this whole amnesia thing?…