The Rejected One (Woosan)

Chapter Six

Because of being in an ambulance, everyone who was in the ambulance arrived at the hospital in no time. The workers rushed Wooyoung into the hospital while San tried to keep up, though he found it a little difficult because of how rushed the workers were. He couldn't blame them because it was an emergency as the guy was unconscious for seemingly unknown reason. Well, that's what it seemed like to him as well as everyone else that was currently in the hospital. The few people that were around had a wide eyed expression when they saw that Wooyoung was being rushed in, though it was mainly patients that were wide eyed while the staff had expressions that told that they had seen it many times before.

"Can you stay in the waiting room?" one of the workers asked San, being polite, "We just want to make sure that everything is going ok with him first and to make sure that he comes too. We'll let you know when you come in, but only if he wants to come in. If he doesn't want you to come in, then you will have to leave."

"Yeah, sure," San answered, "And I understand." He walked into the waiting room and sat down on one of the many chairs that weren't occupied. The workers rushed Wooyoung into the emergency area and immediately started doing the vital tests which where to make sure that he was still breathing, loosened any restrictive clothing though all of Wooyoung's clothes were already loose and checked to see if there was anything blocking his airways, which there wasn't. The next thing that one of the workers began to do was to check his heart rate with the stethoscope, which was what the worker did exactly. The room was silent for a moment. There was a worried expression on the worker's face and it was evident that there was something definitely wrong.

"His heart is beating too fast," the worker said, as she removed the stethoscope with a worried tone, "We need to give him an anti-arrhythmic medication right now. It's beating too fast for his body and from the sounds of it, he might have Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome." Immediately, one of the other workers began to prepare the anti-arrhythmic into a syringe while also trying to make sure that there weren't any air bubbles in the syringe as that would make the situation worse. Once getting the right amount of the anti arrhythmic medication and when there were no air bubbles in the syringe, the worker checked for a vein before injecting the medication through the syringe into the vein. While the medication was being injected, other workers were placing heart monitor equipment on Wooyoung as they needed to make sure that the medication was working as well as made sure that his heart rate didn't become too low or too high again. It was the last thing that they needed for him.

"Ok, we have everything set up," one worker stated, "We will need to make sure that we keep a constant eye on him, just to make sure that his heart rate stays regular. But, one question, what makes you think he has Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome?" The worker that has checked Wooyoung's heartbeat before explained that despite his heart going at a rapid pace, it sounded more irregular that any other rapid heartbeat that she had heard from any other patient that she had in the past. That was enough to convince the other workers that were in the room currently. Instead of just standing around Wooyoung, they went walked out of the room and started focusing on other patients that were in the hospital for various reasons such as broken bones, being in labour, surgery and many more things. But, those things didn't really worry San as he was worried about the guy that he had come in with. He wasn't really concerned that he would be late for work as Haechan had found someone that could cover his classes until San could come back. San was just more worried as he didn't know if the guy would wake up.

Every time someone walked into the guy's room, his anxiousness would always increase though he didn't know why because there was always the slightest good news coming out of it. The best news that San had received so far was that the guy's heartbeat had stabilised to a normal heartbeat, despite there still being a small irregular pattern. Regardless though, he was just happy to hear that the guy was going to be ok and to know that the guy was saved in time to be ok. Now it was just a matter of when he was going to wake up for his own sake. San hoped it would be soon.

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Slowly but surely, Wooyoung began to open his eyes to his surroundings, one that he didn't recognise at all. Mainly because the last thing that he remembered was that he was going on his daily walk and calling an ambulance because he felt like his heartbeat was going a little too fast. But, now he was in a place that he didn't recognise and his heartbeat was back to its normal or at least close to normal pace. His mind was foggy as he looked around him, finding that he was connected to a machine that seemed to be monitoring his heartbeat. He had come to the realisation that he wasn't at the community centre as that place didn't have heart monitors nor did it look like it was well cleaned like the place that he was currently in. He was in the hospital. With little strength that he had in him, he lifted himself up into a sitting position, though he ended up getting a little bit of help from one of the staff that had saw what he was doing.

"How did I get here?" Wooyoung asked, "I don't remember calling the number fully."

"There was a gentleman," the staff member answered, "Who had called on your behalf. I assume he had saw you faint and called us. He is in the waiting room if you want to meet him." Wooyoung was a little bit surprised to hear that someone had called on his behalf or someone even cared enough to do. No one else seemed to care whenever he had an episode, regardless of how mild or severe the episode would be. So, hearing that someone had called on his behalf was surprising to hear as well as a new thing for him.

"Would you like to meet him?" the staff member asked, as she checked to make sure that everything in the room was ok.

"Yes please," he answered, though he wasn't too sure why he said yes. He most likely had no idea who this person was nor met this person ever in his life. But, it was too late to take his answer back as the staff member, who was a female doctor, went to get whoever had called on his behalf and just like what he had thought earlier, he had no idea who the person was. His face or the rest of him didn't seem familiar. The unfamiliar person sat down on the chair that was next to the hospital bed, not saying a word just yet. Wooyoung didn't say anything either as he didn't know what to say. He knew that he should say thank you and he was planning to, but the words weren't coming out just yet. The atmosphere felt a little awkward in a sense that they didn't know what to say or do in the moment, well at least they didn't know what they were supposed to do. The two of them stayed in silence until Wooyoung decided to speak up.

"Thank you," he thanked, a hint of genuineness in his voice, "For calling the ambulance."

"No worries," San responded, "I am sure a lot of people would've done the same."

"I'm not sure about that," Wooyoung said, as he looked down at his hands. He was unaware that he had spoken out loud.

"What do you mean?" San asked. Instantly, Wooyoung began to panic a little bit, though he couldn't back out now as the male was waiting for an answer. What else could he do?