Lost and Found

Chapter 3

Lost and Found - Chapter 3

Paul and Denise were in the room with Ashley when she started moving her hand later on that night. Denise was sitting by Ashley's bed praying when all of a sudden, she saw Ashley's hand move. "Paul, she moved," Denise said as Paul came over to look at his little angel who was now still again. Then all of a sudden, she shook her left hand, almost like she had a cramp in her hand and was trying to get rid of it.

Paul ran out of the room to the nurse's station, "hi my daughter is in room 367 and she just moved," Paul said out of breath. As soon as the nurse came in the room, Ashley fluttered her eyes open. "Ashley," Denise said as she watched her only daughter open her eyes and then close them again. "She is coming too; she might do that a couple of times though. The lights may be too bright for her, most patients have problems coming out of unconsciousness if there are too bright of lights," the nurse said as she went and turned off some of the lights to make it dimmer for her.

Ashley opened her eyes when she realized that it wasn't bright, she finally kept them open. "Hey, do you know who we are? Blink once for yes and twice for no," Paul asked Ashley. The nurses and doctors warned them that she might not be able to talk, so they were supposed to use the blink once, blink twice method to communicate with her. She could only answer yes and no questions, but the Jonas family saw it as an improvement from nothing at all. So, when Ashley just blinked once Paul and Denise were both in tears, so happy that she remembered them. "Can you go out and get the boys please," Denise said as she looked up at Paul. Paul nodded his head and left.

It was nearing midnight when Paul walked into the waiting room to wake up his sons. "Boys your sister woke up," Paul said as he stepped into the waiting room where he found Nick awake. All that was left at this late hour was Big Rob, Kevin, Joe, Nick, and Dani. Phil and Johnny had taken Frankie with them. Kevin, Joe, and Nick had decided that it was probably best to keep Frankie in a routine and that meant a good sleep schedule at home in his own bed. It was a tearful and hard goodbye for him, but it was really best for him.

"Wake up your brothers, I am going to head back to the room, the doctor will be in shortly and I don't want to miss it," Paul said. As soon as Ashley had woken up the nurse came in and paged the doctor and he didn't want to miss what the doctor said. As soon as his Dad left, Nick went over and woke up his brothers.

Ashley was scared and didn't know what was going on. All she wanted was Nick, but she got these people with things hanging around their necks that she had no clue who they were or what they were doing to her and they were shinning bright lights into her eyes that were making them hurt. "Nick," Ashley mind talked, hoping that he could hear her.

Nick heard a little voice in his head that wasn't his, and he knew it had to be Ashley's. He smiled right then and there. He was glad that she could at least mind talk and that she remembered him.

When the doctors were done, Paul came out and got the boys. "Boys, the doctor wants to talk to us," Paul said as he held open the door for his three eldest to enter the room. The first thing all of them did was they went over and kissed her on the forehead, before all finding a seat across the room. Nick stayed by Ashley's bed and held her hand, to which she did nothing, she didn't even try to grip it, and this freaked Nick out a little bit.

"Ashley is not doing as well as I had hoped she would, when coming out of the coma. She is responding to voices right now, which is very poor. Normally when someone is in this situation, they are typically able to wiggle their toes and make fists with their hands and they would close their eyes from the bright lights and be able to talk. She is not doing any of those things right now. We are going to take her down for a brain scan in the morning, to try to find out what is wrong with her. We will just let her rest tonight, and I suggest you all do that too," the doctor said. "Do you have any questions for me?"