Once Josh got to the hospital, he tried to calm down a little bit as he walked from the parking lot to the front desk. In all honesty, he tried his hardest to avoid G.W. at all costs, but now was being forced back to a place that brought back horrible memories and might make worse ones now too. He walked up to the nurse at the desk, only to find out that Donna was still in surgery on the fourth floor and he was to wait in the waiting room upstairs. When he finally found the waiting room he was looking for, he found that he was the only one there and Dr. Adams would come out as soon as the surgery was over. As the minutes dragged on into an hour, he was forced to realize that this was what it must've been like for Donna when he had been shot. The only difference was that this time it wasn't his life hanging in the balance, it was his wife's life and their new born baby's life. After what seemed a lifetime, a tall graying man who Josh could only assume was Dr. Adams walked over.
"Hi, I'm Dr. Adams, I left the voice-mail on your cellphone earlier. I'm gathering you haven't been told much have you?" He couldn't trust himself to form a sentence right now. He shook his head, wanting to know what was going on.
"Your wife was brought in about two hours ago. Apparently what had happend was a drunk driver had driven head on into her stopped car." As soon as the doctor said drunk driver, all he could think about was how Mrs. Landingham had been killed by a drunk driver almost four years ago, and he felt tears accumulate in his eyes.
"Because of the impact, your wife suffered head wounds like a severe concussion and a broken nose, but she also suffered from impact from the steering wheel at her abdomen. Because of that wound, she now has broken ribs and she suffered from internal bleeding. From both the impact and the bleeding, we thought it was best to have an emergency c-section so that we could stop the internal bleeding, and make sure that the baby could survive if your wife didn't. Luckily Donna pulled through and is now in the recovery room, but she is still unconscious." He felt a few tears trickle down his face as the doctor told him that Donna was in fact going to be fine, and the injuries were no longer considered critical.
"What about the baby?" Josh spoke for the first time, his voice coming out raspy and harsh sounding.
"Mr. Lyman you might want to sit down for a moment while I tell you this," Josh sat down in the seat behind him, preparing himself for the absolute worst. "We had to perform the c-section to try and give both Donna and the baby a chance of survival. Your wife as I told you will pull through this. The baby on the other hand has been given a hard start. The baby was delivered around three fifteen, but she weighed only about four and a half pounds, but she wasn't breathing. She may have some brain damage but it is really too soon to know anything. Your daughter is now in the N.I.C.U. and is in an incubator to bring up her temperature which was low and she's also on a respirator for her breathing problems. I have to tell you this, because you need to know before you go visit your wife. Your daughter has very slim chances of surviving and leaving the N.I.C.U., because of the accident and the respitory problems, it's doubtful that she'll live to see next week." The doctor stopped talking and watched Josh, trying to gage his reaction, but he just sat there feeling like he had been punched in the stomach, letting the tears finally fall.