Fighting Life

Chapter Sixteen

Her head and body felt very heavy and her chest was hurting worse than what she even remembered. She felt like her mind was foggy and it took a moment before she readjusted her mind to the idea of what had happened. Her last memory, going off at Clark, her boss, for his mean ways and then feeling tight in the chest, like somebody was gripping her lungs and she was not able to get air out or in. She remembered the feeling like the floor was rising up to her, or more, she was falling to the floor.

What had happened? She was so confused. Slowly, blinking a few times before her eyes opened enough for her to glance around. Seeing the white walls, glass windows to one side, and the hanging bags and beeping machines to her other side along with more windows. She was laying on a hospital bed and if she could have moved at that moment, she surely would have freaked out and jumped out of bed. Surely it had not been a few hours, with the way she felt, with the clock ticking away on the wall, she was sure it was indication that she had been in the bed at least a day or two. Which worried her.

Firstly, she did not even understand how she got here, or what really happened. Secondly, now she was worried about work. Yes, her last thought had been to think about looking for a new job, but she was hoping to stay until something new came. Tana was sure now, that she was going to be out of a job, for the things she said. Maybe she should have listened to the boss, when he told her to shut up, to get out of his office. Maybe she should have done what was said and not what she thought was better to do.

Tana did not like hospital beds, and so she tried again, to move, to shift and get out of it. Everything aches as she did, and she took a sharp intake of breath, which in turn hurt as well. There was no point and all she could do was lay her head back down against the pillow. She was stressed and worried and felt like she just wanted to cry.

Being on her own was also scary, freaking her out and so when there was a noise to the side of the room, Tana jumped a little, looking over to the side of the room, to where she had noted a door was. Somebody had entered the room, and her eyes focused upon them, noted the items they were wearing. Blue scrubs, a badge pinned to the left breast side of the top. They were a nurse, no doubt about it.

"Oh, Miss Nillkinszon, you are awake." They stated the obvious.
"W...what happened?" Tana asked, finding it hard to even talk.
"I will go get Doctor White for you." They replied.

Before Tana could even say anything else, the nurse went out of the room and was gone, leaving her on her own once again. It was not long though before the door opened again, and Tana saw Jason walk in, looking towards where she was on the bed and smiled at her gently. He came over to the side of the bed, she felt like he wanted to sit and be a friend, but she also felt like he had to be a doctor and that overruled things for him.

"How do you feel?" he asked.
"Heavy." Tana replied confused.
"Expected." He replied. "Hannah, would you mind checking Miss Nillkinszon's obs please."
"Sure." The nurse nodded.
"What happened?" Tana asked Jason.
"You got sick." He stated, which she kind of knew already. "You have pneumonia."
"Oh.... How bad?" she asked a bit shocked.
"Enough to land you in here.... enough to cause.... Your heart to play up." He answered.
"My heart... again?" she repeated, as the nurse checked her pulse and oxygen levels.
"Getting sick like that, can cause some bad reactions." Jason told. "I have some work to do, but I will come back later. Just.... Try and take it easy for now."

She watched as Jason left the room, confused, wondering why he seemed a bit distant with her. She wondered if she had done something wrong, made him angry for some reason. The nurse was still there, still doing some checks on Tana. She turned her head looking at them.

"Why.... Did he not tell me everything?" she asked.
"Doctor White is a very busy guy. I am sure he had reasons." The nurse said.
"Can you tell me what happened?" Tana asked.
"The best I know, some guy bought you in here, to emergency. Doctor White was in the staff room, finished, but emergency was busy and called for help. He arrived and kind of took over." The nurse explained. "Good thing too, with your heart and all. He was quick to think of what to do."