The day of the carnival has finally arrived and Bo and Suellen , Daisy and Enos was in the General Lee driving to the Hazzard fair grounds the happiness had a dark cloud over it and Bo thought for sure that Luke would have been awake by now .
Meanwhile at the hospital the sun was shining in Luke's room , birds was chirping but it all fell on deaf ears , closed eyes,
anyway his doctor was making the morning rounds " good morning Luke how are we this morning "?, getting no reply except for the noise of the breathing mask he wrote down on Luke's chart still comatosed , nonresponsive , he thought he would check his reflex's so he lifted up Luke's right eyelid he moved his eye around some but no response then he put it back down.
Then later on that morning the nurse came in to do Luke's morning excersizes " well good morning Luke you look better ",
and phyiscally Luke was almost healed his cuts were fading away , some of the bandages that were on his face were gone ,
but the bandage on his forehead was still their but unfortunetly Luke showed no signs of waking up which is not good.
The longer Luke stayed locked in his head the more it was looking like he would be a vegetable ", as Luke was asleep he was walking on clouds and he could faintly hear the angles calling him home and he was knocking on heaven's door ". at the time
his family had arrived at the hospital from the carnival and they were all smiles hoping Luke was awake finally ",
Bo spotted Luke's doctor walking the hall and he said " Hey Doc how's Luke doing is he awake yet ", the doctor said " let's go into my office so we can talk their and so the Dukes followed him into his office and he sat Luke's file on is desk ",
he said " well the good news is that Luke is almost physically healed ", then Jesse said " that's good doc ", then he said but unfortunetly Luke hasn't shown any signs of coming out of the coma then he could tell by the looks on their faces they got the picture ", then Bo said " doc please he can't stay asleep forever can he ?", " sadly he can but he looks better ".
Meanwhile in his room the nurse had decided to change Luke's position so he wouldn't get bed sores and then she checked Luke's IV , it seemed to be good and then she checked his feeding tube , then she checked the heart monitor , the pump that connected the ventiltor to Luke's mouth and that looked good except his breathing was a little shallow but that could be expected since he is in a coma", and then she left and meanwhile Luke was still walking on clouds when suddenly he heard voice calling his name he said " Bo is that you ?", help me Bo ... I can't open my eyes , I can't wake up cuz ".
Meanwhile Luke's doctor was showing the Dukes to Lukes's room and when Uncle Jesse saw him he said " my poor boy ",
their was all white in the room except the dark hair hidden under the big white bandage on Luke's forehead and Bo said "
" Luke you missed a great carnival I took Suellen guess what she kissed me ", trying to get a rise out of LUke but it fall on deaf ears but Bo tried to swallow the lump in his throat and Daisy was trying to be brave too it was so hard ",
Balladeer : No mistaken it Luke was in bad shape he was has helpless as a brand new baby he looked more dead then alive ".
Then Doc said " you can stay with him for 15 minutes then you will have to leave " , Dukes tried to wake LUke they begged,
pleaded , coaxed him , and tried everything Luke just wouldn't open his eyes ", then they got ready to leave uncle Jesse
walked over to the bed and he bent down gave Luke a kiss on his temple and he said " I Love you Luke , I miss you boy.
Jesse couldn't stop the tears from falling down is face and he , Bo , Daisy walked out of the room leaving Luke alone.
later on that night at the hospital Luke's started having seziures and his room button at the nurses station went off ",
so Luke's nurse paged his doctor luckily his doctor had been walking the hall and then he made a mad dash LUke's room",
when he got their he saw that Luke was flopping around , his arms was going every which away , legs was bouncing ",
and his breathing mask was falling off and the doctor looked around the room checked all the machines and the one that was
watching the pressure in LUke's brain had gone up and then a few seconds later some nurses came in the doctor said " quick
"
give him some lorazapan so the nurse injected Luke with some of that but that didn't work and then when that didn't work,
the doctor said " try some diazapam so the nurse gave Luke a shot of that and then finally he started to slow down ",
once Luke stopped seizing and fell back to sleep the doctor looked at him to make sure he was stable and he appeared to be,
so then the doctor went into the hallway and called on over to the Duke Farm and it was about 11:30 pm when the phone rang
Bo who was sound asleep jumped out of bed when he heard the phone ring and he said in a sleepy voice " hello duke farm ",
" Hello this is dr. Crow over at Tri-county hospital Luke has taken a turn for the worse ", then Bo said " oh god is he
alright ?", " then doctor said " I don't wanna tell you over the phone I would rather tell you in person ", so then Bo said
" okay doc will be right over ", then Bo hung up and told Uncle Jesse and Daisy the news who happend to heard the phone too.
Uncle Jesse " we better hurry c'mon let's go " so after the Dukes got dressed , showered they hopped into the Genearl ",
Bo broke every speeding law getting to the hospital when they finally arrived they looked for the doctor they found him in
the waiting room and he walked over and he said " thanks for coming in such a hurry I'm sorry to have to tell y'all this ",
the pressure in Luke's brain went up high last night which caused him to have a seziure but he's stable now ".
Then Jesse said " well that ain't good what are you gonna do now ?", " well um .. were running an MRI on him now to see why
that happened but I got a pretty good idea of what caused it ", then Bo said " what do you think it is doc ?", then the
doctor sighed and said " well I believe Luke has developed hydrocephalus " then Jesse said " what does that mean .
the doctor said " it means Luke has water on his brain you see Luke has too much fluid in his brain and the pressure is causing Luke's brain to bump against his skull which is destroying brain tissue which means that if Luke does wake up
he'll probably have brain damage or if you want I could try to fix it by inserting a tube in Luke's brain that will drain
the fluid out of his brain but to be honest it has already been 6 weeks with as weak as he is , having suffered a heart
attack , two seizures , I think it's just best to let him go his body has been through too much what with having this seziure
just now has put more stress on his body and I'm afraid that his body won't be able to handle the stress of the surgery ".
Bo said " NO were not cutting Luke off of life support he's made it this far ", the doc said " Bo your cousin has suffered
3 setbacks so far do you really think it's fair to him ", Bo said " I want you to place that tube in Luke's brain ".
So after the Dukes and the doctor got done talking the doctor went over to the nurses station and said " set up OR 3 "
then after that the doctor, couple of interns went in with the a gurney one of the interns with huge muscles just lifted Luke
off the bed and slowly layed him down on the gurney Luke moaned some but he didn't stir and then they made their way to the
operating room and the doctor got out a scalpel and exposed Luke's chest started insterting the tube then got a few once
he knew it was in place he started stiching Luke back up then he put a bandage on his chest and when the surgery was over ".
The wheeled Luke into the recovery room the doctor wanted to make sure that the tube was working before he took Luke back to his room ", then around 11:30 am Luke was wheeled back into his room and once they got back to his room the intern lifted Luke again and put him back on his bed and covered him up with the blanket then he left and the doctor checked him over and he said " well it looks good so far ", then he figured while he was here he would check to see if Luke was awake or not ".
but once again no change all he saw was white and no eyeball and then he said " Luke don't you pull anymore tricks on me ".
Meanwhile the Dukes was still in the waiting room awaiting the news on Luke's surgery and then he went into the waiting room
and he said " the surgery went good but the next 24 hours will tell if it worked or not I'm not promising anything .
Balladeer : Oh lordy friends I got me a bad feeling that O'l Luke is gonna end up a vegetable for life .