Chapter 3

Once they arrived at the hospital Ryan was examined straight away. He had several bruised ribs and three had broken. His face was swollen and his head was bleeding still. He was still unconscious though. The doctor cleaned up his head and stitched it up where it had been cut. Once the doctor had done this, he made his way to the family room to tell this boys family the injuries.

As he opened the door all eyes were on him. He signed.

"Ryan has several bruised ribs and three are broken, his face is swollen but fine. We have stitched up his head and that seems to have stopped the bleeding. Unfortunately he is still unconscious and we have no idea when he is going to wake and if he will. The chances that he wakes up right now are about 50/50. However that can increase. We have got him stable."

"Is there anything we can do?" Kirsten asked once she had calmed down a little.

"Yes there is. If you can visit Ryan as much as possible and talk around him so that he can hear your voices. Also to just stay in his room one of you at all times so that if he wakes up he sees a familiar face."

"Okay thank you Doctor." Sandy replied.