Golden Time (JungYong)

02

The professor laughed dumbfoundedly. He was only a junior in middle school and yet he could predict cardiac arrest. No, that's not a prediction, but a certain diagnosis. The student who had been brought to the emergency room arrived in an arrested heart condition. His heart was made to beat again, but his brain had already been damaged due to hypoxia. The sustained deep coma lead to the condition of a vegetative state.

"Your heart was arrested for more than five minutes. Is your dream to be a doctor?"

The professor, who was supposed to examine Suhyuk's body closely, forgot his job briefly due to his irrelevant remarks. He just felt surprised and embarrassed by the fact that what he had to explain came out of the patient's mouth one by one. Hearing the professor's word, Suhyuk nodded his head as if he already knew it.

"I just do not know."

'Did I have any dream at all? What kind of dream was I dreaming? What was I dreaming to be?'

As he had lost his memory, he could not figure it out, but he had a vague idea that he certainly did not dream to be a doctor. It was because he felt very uncomfortable when he incised a patient's abdomen with a scalpel in his dream. Of course, he pretty much got used to it over time.

"Do you see this?"

The professor picked up a pen and moved it left to right slowly. Suhyuk's eye followed the pen at an appropriate speed. The professor confirmed his condition while speaking with him constantly, and he soon could present his own diagnosis. The student's reaction and mind were perfectly normal. It was really doubtful whether he had been in a vegetative state.

Of course, he can find out the details with a thorough examination later.

At that moment, a middle-aged woman came into the patient's room hastily. She was a woman in her late 40s, her hair tied back.

"Oh my god, Suhyuk!"

Suhyuk felt instinctively that it was his mom.

Although he can't remember her face, he felt something sticky deep in his heart, with the same blood vein flowing between them.

"I knew it, my son. I knew my son would wake up soon."

She was so joyful that she cried warm tears, caressing and touching Suhyuk's face again and again.

"I think he had amnesia," the professor said.

"What did you say?" she asked. The professor's word made her eyes red-hot like a rabbit's.

"Your son has lost all of his memories from before he had the accident."

Her hands, touching Suhyuk's face, shuddered.

"So, what will happen to my son, sir?"

"I have to check it out further, but my opinion is that his condition is all good except for his amnesia." His condition is good? 'Good' is not enough to express his condition.

Even though he opened his eyes casually, he already had his brain damaged. That was a very natural outcome for any man who suffered disability. Nonetheless, the patient was unbelievably normal. Doctors say this is a miracle when they cannot come up with any proper medical explanation.

"It's okay. If you are healthy, that's more than enough for me. It's alright, Suhyuk."

With pitiful eyes toward son, she dragged his face to her chest. She patted him on the back and soothed him, who must have been surprised as well.

Suhyuk, who threw himself into his mom's chest, could feel her heart beating hard. Is there a better melody in the world than this? His mother's bosom was as warm and sweet as ever. If he closes his eyes while like this, feeling snug and warm enough in her chest, he could fall asleep instantly.