Thanks to aliqueen16 for reviewing.
If you do like my awareness stories. I started a new one after updating last. That one is for Cobra Kai and is called "leaving the past behind to make room for the future"
This chapter is told from Doc's POV. Hmmm… Not all readers like the switching of pov's like that. I just want to show you… Well, I just want to make this an as good story as possible.
In the front seat of an ambulance, with a paramedic right next to me driving. I would have liked if I could have found something to talk about. Something at all that would keep my mind of what was really going on.
And never before had I hated my photographic memory as much as I did when I saw Denny lying on the floor, seizing over and over again for my inner vision.
"Thank you." I said, as if Sarah had been driving an uber when we reached the hospital and the ambulance doors. "Now…" I got out while Pierce opened the back of the ambulance and with some help from Sarah got the stretcher out, where Denny stayed laid, looking as if he was asleep- and I couldn't have blamed him for it when I felt his forehead and through his forehead through his hair.
I had heard this was just a parent's way of feeling for a temperature. But I guess I had never really known the love you felt for a child or grandchild as I did that day for Denny.
"Are you awake son?"
"Uh-huh." Denny answered and slightly squeezed his eyes open. "I'm fi…"
It was only somewhere in between a mumble and a whimper, and only half a word before the look in what we could see of his eyes changed. As if a shadow went over them while they rolled back until all we could see of them was white.
"He's seizing again."
Sarah wouldn't have had to state it. All of us there- her, Pierce, I, and a doctor and a nurse from the E. R. Could all see it all too clear when Denny's body tensed in that weird, unnatural way and then started trembling.
This was far from the first seizure I had ever witnessed in my life as a doctor. Yet none of them had ever made me feel as out of myself and helpless as I did with my grandson in front of me. While I helped Pierce to push him onto his side in case his throw up. Which he did only half a second later, still seizing but on the bed and the floor and not being able to aspirate.
"I've never seen an adult with fever cramps before…" Pierce mumbled to himself. "But then of course, I've never seen adult with such a high temperature as this."
And I had never felt a worry such as this. It was nowhere near a secret that a temperature this high, or just a little bit higher could cause lasting, sometimes permanent brain damage. But what I couldn't understand…
Only yesterday my grandson had practically been health itself. Just like any other young man his age. And it just couldn't be. He just couldn't go from that until this. Because whatever this high temperature was caused by it must be something.
"You're at the hospital now Denny." I assured him, as if that could make him conscious
Usually only very young children had such high temperatures and fever cramps. But within two years so they were old and developed enough for their bodies to fight such high temperatures on their own. I had a long life of a doctor behind me and I had never even heard of an adult having it. Now everything in between mono and possible tumors was spinning in my mind.
When I heard the hospital staff mentioning about how long the seizure had lasted and Stesolid it sounded like something from the other side of a wall, it looked even like something if I saw it from another world and I mostly just wanted to wrap him up in my arms and run away with him. Run away, far and fast enough to be away from whatever this was that was hurting him…
"Denny?" As if he could answer me in the middle of the seizure that seemed to last forever I leaned in closer to him. Very much aware of that if he threw up again he'd do it right on my shirt. "Look! I'm no good at talking about feelings and I don't even know what's happening to you right now. Even though I am the doctor here and I should know I don't…"
For just a moment I finished speaking but Denny only kept trembling.
"I don't know if you can hear me. And I don't know if… if things are about to change now. If you're about to change then I just want you to know that I'm not going anywhere. No matter what happens, I love you…"
I had to clear my throat and make a pause. Having said that, it didn't matter that we had only known each other for a few months. He was just about as my own flesh and blood- and was there really no way for me to take away all of his symptoms and just do it myself? No matter how much it hurt it couldn't be a smidge of seeing it going through him.
"…I don't care what happens okay? I'm still not going anywhere!"
Random fact
Fact! Fever seizures are rare among any other ages than babies or toddlers. However, it does happen.
And that's all I'm going to say for now.
