December 13th, 2011, 12:15
Penny laid down in her hospital bed and flipped through the very few channels that they did have, trying to find something to watch until two o'clock came around. Two o'clock was when visiting hours started, and Penny was bored out of her skull. She had already ate poorly cooked hospital food, showered; twice, and checked her emails by phone. Being caged up like this was not Penny's style.
She swung her legs over her bed, and wheeled her IV around the other side of the bed, it was time to go exploring. Penny peeked her head out to be sure Dr. Anal wasn't around and she lurked down the hall the best anyone can while attached to an IV. Upon rounding the first corner, Penny felt very pleased with herself, making it all the way out of her room and without anyone stopping her, but irony had always been cruel to her.
"Did you get permission to leave your room?"
Penny turned to see her doctor leaning up on the wall, reading a chart.
"Well, I didn't know I had to." She tried to play innocent, anything to not have her be sent back into her room.
"A nurse or your doctor has to give an okay that you are fit to move about, what are you doing out of your room anyways? If you are hungry there is a button in your room for that reason." He closed the chart and studied Penny, she was surly a handful, and she knew this.
No, not hungry, I'm just bored and I don't like being stuck up in a room all day, so I thought I go for a little walk around the hospital."
"You need to get permission from a nurse or you doctor for you to be out and about."
Penny rolled her eyes, "But you are my doctor, and as you can see, I'm perfectly fine. So what do you say? Can I pretty please just look around for a bit?"
12:22, Same day
Sheldon gave this some though, and he supposed it was good to see her active, it wouldn't hurt him or her if she moved around for a bit.
"Oh, alright, but you can only walk around this floor only." He pointed to the ground when he said this and walked away, seeing Penny's face pout as he left.
Sheldon has yet to meet someone like her, so he was intended to do all he can to help her, without her knowing it he had put her on the waiting list for a heart, her blood work had been sent out and everything. He already had a plan for the payment cost if it all goes well. Sheldon only hopped that a match would come in the next few day so he can get her fixed up and out of here. Yes working on someone who is already as weak as she is, is very risky, but Sheldon was known for taking risk and having the best outcome.
His pager went off, one of his other patients needed to be check on, Sheldon smiled at the name of the patient that was shown on his screen, and he nearly skipped over to greet them.
"Hello, Mr. Naylor, and how are you today?" Mr. Naylor was an old, potbellied man, complete with facial hair, Sheldon took interest in this man because he was a physicist; something Sheldon always found fascinating.
"Well, Dr. Cooper, I'm still in the hospital so I can't be doing so well, but I'm hanging in there."
"Oh, I know you are, I have the test results for your blood work, you have a very high cholesterol, and a bit of blood clotting, which would be the reason for your stroke and chest pain you have been having. Now I am prescribing you with blood thinners to help avoid anymore clotting, and I advise you to eat at least three bowls of Cheerios everyday, to help lower your cholesterol."
"Are Cheerios really necessary, Doctor?"
"Why yes of course they are, they'll help, they taste good and have a great fiber content, and if you want to stay around long enough to finish your work, I highly suggest it. Speaking of your work, I'm curious to how it is coming along."
Mr. Naylor gave a soft chuckle at Sheldon's question, "If you want to know so bad, It's coming along well, as soon as I get out of here I'm going to a research facility in Germany. Going to see what happens if we combine two subatomic particles that are from different upbringings. We hope that we can create a new particle or atom. If all goes wrong it might just become a waste of time."
"Well that does sound fascinating, I hope for the best with your project."
"Thanks, Doctor. How much longer will I be in here?"
"We can have you out of here by tomorrow morning, bright and early."
"That's great to hear, thank you Doctor."
Sheldon smiles down at him with great respect, "It's my pleasure, Mr. Naylor. I will be seeing you off tomorrow."
Mr. Naylor crossed his arms over his chest, "Well, that's very kind of you, Doctor, never thought you'd be the friendly type to say goodbye."
"Normally I'm not, but you have been a joy to have and I've enjoyed your company very much. I've also told you countless time how your line of work always captures my intention. It's a breath of fresh air to talk to someone on my type of intellectual level."
Mr. Naylor gave a hearty laugh and nodded his head in agreement with Sheldon, "I understand what your saying, some people can be a bit dim. But now I have a question for you?"
Sheldon cocked his brow at Mr. Naylor, but was curious as to what Mr. Naylor wanted to know, "Go right ahead and ask."
"If you are so interested in physics, how come you never went into that line of work? You surly are intelligent enough."
"I did consider it once, when I was quite young, but a part of me thought how grand it would be to help people on a different level. So ignoring the urge to splice particles I'm helping people live."
"Very noble of you Doctor. Have any challenging patient lately?"
Sheldon didn't have to give any thought to this, he knew his challenge was Penny, aside from being a handful, and her heart problem, she was a zazzy one.
"I'm actually having one right now, Jane Doe, blond, has a failing heart. She has about a month to live and ' m trying to get a matching heart so we can save her."
"I hope you do, she sounds like a sweet gal."
On impulse Sheldon said what felt natural to him, "She is." Mr. Naylor grinned, Sheldon rolled his eyes, "I mean for a troublesome girl as herself, she's hot headed and tempered, disobedient, and above all has no sense of responsibility for herself.. But she does seem like a sweet girl. It would be a shame if the world were to lose her."
"Isn't it like that for everyone thou?" Mr. Naylor laid back and rested his head low into his pillow, Isn't it a shame to lose anyone so very young, and with so much to offer?"
Sheldon admired Mr. Naylor, not only for his wisdom and honesty, but how he always has something moving to say. "You are right about that, It's a shame."
Sheldon's pager went off and he checked it, then signed heavily.
"Doesn't sound so good, what's the problem?"
"My problem isn't a "what", it is a "her." I told that girl not to leave this floor, and what does she do? Goes down to the maternity ward!"
Sheldon stomps out of Mr. Naylor s room, apologizing for cutting their meeting short, before he leave Mr. Naylor ask Sheldon one last thing.
"Dr. Cooper, what's her name? This Jane doe?"
"Penny, her name is Penny, and she's a pain in my neck!"
Mr. Naylor laughed out loud, remembering how it must feel, to have some feel like "pain in the neck".
1:47 AM, Same day.
This doctor of Penny's was nothing but a pain in her neck, she had listened to him, for all of ten minutes but became bored, and now he's standing in front of her and ripping her a new one.
"I told you to stay on your floor, what on earth were you doing anyways all the way down there?"
"I just wanted to see the babies! I heard one crying and got all excited alright? I think they all are just so cute."
"That's just you then."
"Wow what's got you so crabby, Dr. Anal?" Penny folded her arms over her chest and gave him a cold glare.
"First off it"s Dr. Cooper, not anal, and Second my problem is a girl with a failing heart who can't seem to listen to one thing I tell her, I'm trying to help you but you refuse to listen to me what so ever."
Penny lowered her eyes to the floor and bit her bottom lip, "Sorry then, I just got bored. I'll go back to my room now." Penny gripped the cold bar of her IV holder and sulked back to her room. she didn't want to a bother to anyone anymore, especially if she didn't have much longer to live, it was pointless to put up a fight with her doctor, or to even keep up the fight in herself.
HOLY COW! I'm so sorry it took me so long to get this chapter done! School had kept me busy, but now I am on Spring break so I will have plenty of time to write more to this story and maybe start my many more stories to come! hope you like this and remember a review makes this author happy!
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