Well It's going on three weeks now and Luke hasn't shown any change except that his other injuries are almost healed ",
meanwhile over at the dukefarm Bo was doing his normal morning chores and unfortunetly he's also having to do Luke's,
Daisy was watching the breakfast dishes , Jesse was sitting in his favorite chair reading the morning paper , having coffee.
back at the hospital Luke's nurse was coming in to check on him and hopefully so she got out her penlight and she lifted up his right eyelid and shined the light in it and she noticed some improvement his eye movement was still sluggish ",
then she put his eyelid down and then she wrote on his chart eye movement still slow ", then she looked at all the machines,
checked his IV and that seemed to good ", everything looked good except Luke wasn't waking up which ain't good ".
then a few minutes later Luke's doctor walked in and asked the nurse how is he ?", she said " well he's still the same ",
" eye movement is a little better but it's still somewhat slow ". but unfortunetly he isn't showing any signs of waking up.
then the doctor got serious look on his face and said " well I guess I should phone his family wish I had better news",
so the doctor made his way out of Luke's room and into the main lobby to call over to the Dukefarm Bo was the first to pick up and he said " hello Duke farm this Bo Duke speaking ?", " Bo .. this is Dr. Crow over at Tri-County hospital it appears Luke has taken a turn for the worse I would like to talk to y'all I wish I had better news for you please come by soon.
So after Bo got finished talking to the doctor he told Uncle Jesse the news " Uncle Jesse that was Luke's doctor called and it appears that Luke's condition hasn't improved any and the doc wants to talk to us at the hospital ", so then Jesse said " well c'mon we better go so Bo and Jesse made their way to the hospital Daisy couldn't go cause she had left for work ".
So when they go their the doctor was in the waiting room and he said " I'm sorry Luke has slipped into a coma and I don't know when he'll wake up or for that matter if he wakes up considering he's been unconcious for about 2 weeks now it's going on 3 weeks then Jesse said " well what if one of us talks to him maybe that'll wake him up ?", then the doctor said " well.
It's been done before and he didn't show any sign of waking up so even if you went into the room he wouldn't even know.
Then Bo said " so what your saying is we just sit here and wait ?", the doctor sighed and said " well ... in some cases the brain will heal on it's own and the person will wake up but in some cases that doesn't happen like Luke for example.
then Jesse said " so what's the worst case scnario we can expect then the doctor said " well their's a small chance he may wake up and be okay but their is another chance that he could remain in a vegetable like state a deep sleep ".
Then Bo said " can we see him anyway ?", the doctor said " sure follow me " so he showed them to Luke's room and when Bo saw Luke just laying their he looked so pale , hooked up to a breathing machine it broke Bo's heart ",
but he tried to be brave for Luke's sake and he picked up his hand and he said " c'mon cousin please wake up Luke ",
but Luke remained unconcious and he said " Luke you better wake up or your gonna miss the carnival next week .
" Boss Hogg even put in a dunkin booth guess who's gonna be in it ?", " Enos can you believe it's gonna be so funny ",
the only noise Bo heard was the breathing machine but he didn't give up he pleaded , begged , he even coaxed Luke ".
15 minutes later his nurse came in and she said " your time is up Bo you can see him tomorrow ?", then Bo said in sad voice,
" well ... goodbye Luke um ... I'll see you tomorrow I guess I really miss you Luke please come back to me ".