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"Miss Mills? Miss Mills can you hear me." A unfamiliar male voice makes his way into Regina's brain and she was relented to open her eyes. "Miss Mills can you open your eyes?" The voice asked again even though Regina was still tired, with this voice asking her things she wasn't going to get any sleep.
When she tried to open her eyes she was met with a bright light shining into them. "Can you please turn that light off." Regina groaned. The light was switched of and when the dark spots disappeared she could finally see where she was and what she saw she didn't like at all. Her eyes travel through the white hospital room. She looked down at her body and saw that she was wearing a hideous hospital gown. Regina looked back up at the doctor and felt herself getting angry.
"Why the hell am I in a hospital bed? But more importantly where the hell are my cloths." Regina looks down at herself and felt disgusted when she saw the hospital gown.
"Miss Mills you suffered a heart attack, do you remember what happened?" Regina looks at the doctor like he grew two heads. The reality only sank in when she moved and felt a sharp pain around her heart section. She looked down her shirt and saw white bandage on top of her chest. What did they do to her?
"I had surgery?" She asks looking at the doctor.
"Yes you have and you have been very lucky that your assistant called 911 so quickly because else you wouldn't have been here at all." He says smiling down at her but Regina could only scoff. "I'll remember that when the Christmas bonuses are handed out."
The doctor's smile disappears when he hears Regina's reply. He takes her chart and decided to start the medicine chat. "So miss Mills let's get serious. Your heart attack was pretty severe and we had to temporary fix your heart making sure that it can still do his basic function which his pumping blood through your system. In human language we had to scrap some bad tissue from you heart so it doesn't get to tired from pumping. But it's only a temporary fix you will need a heart transplantation in the long haul." Regina eyes widen while she listens to him.
"You heart is pretty damaged. I actually think you have been having small heart attacks which have cause all the damage. They are not so easily detected sometimes they just feel like heartburn but they do cause some damage and make your heart really tired." The doctor looks up from the chart and watches Regina's reaction. That was the most difficult part of his job seeing the reaction to bad news but Regina's reaction he did not expect. She started laughing.
"Are you alright ma'am?" He asks a little taken aback by her reaction.
"I just remember telling my employers before I collapsed that I don't have a heart and now you just proved me wrong. I have one, I really bad one." She explains laughing but after a few seconds the laughing stops and Regina settles with a neutral face.
"What happens now, doctor….?" She asks him.
"Whale, doctor Whale. Well we will put you on the transplant list. Because it's such an important organ it's going to be very difficult to find your match. I also think you should stay here for at least the next 12 hours so we can give you some more fluids and check on you but also so you can get some rest. You have a really high stress level.
"No! I can't stay here. I'm the CEO and the head editor of my own company! I can't stay in bed all day. I have meetings, book signings and…." Doctor Whale holds up his hand and shushes Regina.
"If you leave this hospital before the 12 hours are up and go back to the hectic life you have been living you won't make it through the next day. You will get an new heart attack and you will die!" He says sternly.
Regina huffs and fall back against her pillow. "Alright, I will listen but you better keep me alive."
So doctor Whale explained Regina a second time what is going to happen and what other options she could consider but it all came back to, that the heart transplantation was the best option. He asked if she wanted to call her family but Regina just called her assistant Charlotte and explained to her what happened. After doctor Whale left Regina kept on the phone for more than an hour commanding several things from Charlotte and making her hospital room into her new office. Charlotte was going to come to the hospital first thing tomorrow morning and when Regina got off the phone she let out a sigh. How did this happen, why does it have to happen now! She let herself fall back into her pillow and stares at the ceiling. Maybe karma has finally gotten to her. She turns her head and frowns when she sees a blonde woman standing at her door and looking inside.
"Excuse me? Can I help you or something?" She asks the blonde woman who looks at her in shock, the woman's mouth opens but nothing comes out. Regina rolls her eyes and sits up straight again. "Well? Please explain yourself." Regina asks again but the woman just turns around and walks away. Strange? Regina found it weird but didn't pay any more attention than necessary to it, she had bigger problems now. It was around five o'clock so Regina decided to spend her time doing something she normally didn't do. She started to travel through channels trying to find some educational programs but ended up watching CSI New York.
When it was around seven a nurse came in with food. "Good evening miss Mills." The nurse said haven looked on the chart for Regina's name.
"My name is Ruby. You will see me more often since doctor Whale put me on your case. So sorry to hear about your heart but don't worry doctor Whale is the best." Ruby says smiling but soon her smile disappeared when she was only met with an annoyed look.
"Alright I get it. Not really a social person, I know how to be a professional." Ruby says placing the board with food on Regina's side table in silence. Regina pulled to table closer to her and inspected the food. "What is this? Is this supposed to be food?" Ruby gave a chuckle.
"I know right, cut backs. No more than 2 dollars a meal. It taste like crap but it does have all the vitamins and calories you need to get better." Ruby opens the little fridge in the room and place a bottle of water in front of Regina.
"Don't forget to hydrate. I'll come back later when you're finished your meal. And to change the bandaged around your chest." Ruby says leaving the room. Regina bravely eyed the food again and started poking in the thing that was supposed to be meat. "I can't eat that." Regina says to no one in particular but still she was met with a chuckle. When she looks up she sees the weird blonde again.
"Who are you? What are you doing here." Regina asked again just like last time but also like last time the blonde just turned and walked away.
"Seems like someone escaped form the psychiatric department." Regina says pushing the side table away and ignoring the food. She settles on watching TV again until she falls asleep. Sometime during the night Regina wakes up by a sudden feeling. She slowly opens her eyes and she could swear she saw the blonde woman standing at the foot of her bed looking at her while she slept. But when Regina managed to sit up straight and wake up a little better, the woman was gone yet again.