Slow Down - Jaywon

18: 'Diagnosis'

It was okay to say that Jay's heart was racing. That statement wasn't a lie, and he would be made a liar if he argued against it. It was your typical hospital room, no that was a lie. He was in the ICU.

Jungwon was in the ICU. Which hit hard, meaning that the condition Jay imagined to be vital was even more mortal than he had perceived, and damn he didn't know anything yet. He had no answers, he had no source of security where he would appreciate one even if it was false.

The door clicked behind him, Jay's heart was at his feet. The pale white of the walls seemed ivory to replicate the mawkish circumstance that Jungwon was in, but it was just a trick of the eye and a play of the vicious mind.

Jay's throat didn't feel constricted until he had seen the respirator placed over Jungwon's lower face. He didn't want to move for the fear that each step he'll take would bring the revelation that Jungwon's condition was worse than he had seen it with the previous step.

"He's alive," the nurse said. She walked past Jay and the utter feeling of her presence, a nurse's presence, left him sick to his stomach despite the good news. "You brought him in at the right time. I'd say that he's really lucky to have you." Jay didn't consider the statement.

Another nurse, and a doctor, seeming to have aided in the emergency, stepped into the room. Why were there so many? Surely enough two weren't needed for one patient, wasn't it the other way around?

"Thank you for bringing the bottle with you. You have really great friends so appreciate them well," she murmured carefully. He frowned, not out of sadness or anger, but just of emotion, of empathy because she was right. Jay had great friends and he knew by now that he wouldn't trade them for anything else.

"I do," Jay said back. The nurse smiled at him, though he was only able to see it in the way her eyes grinned too.

"This is Nurse Im, and in regards to assessing the bottle you handed to us, this is Dr. Hong," the first nurse had introduced. She then gestured to herself. "Refer to me as Nurse Lee." Jay could only nod when every word of his was pretty much paralyzed on his tongue.

"Before we talk about the condition of our patient, we would like to address the circumstance of the issue." Jay watched as Dr. Hong pulled off his gloves to use the computer in the corner. He had started to speak before he finished opening the analytics, "What had occurred was a medication error. Which means that the medicine that was prescribed to him was the wrong prescription for his case."

Jay didn't know how to react to that. His thoughts went clear until he was vacuous, he didn't realize how his skin felt cold from the inside, how the blood in his veins felt like liquid ice rather than blood itself. His pulse slowed in the way that he felt it change.

"We would have to wait until we receive information from his official doctor or the pharmacy he frequents to know what he was and is supposed to take, but at the moment it will take us a while to attain that information."

Noted.

"Though, we will assign a medication for him to take after he wakes up. We will send it through so that the pharmacy can give it to him as soon as possible, given that he wakes up around that time."

When will he wake up?

"As for Jungwon," Nurse Hong opened. "We are unsure about the date that he will wake up. We say maybe a few days for him to wake up but definitely a couple of days for his body to wake up entirely. His condition was detrimentally vital when he had arrived, his blood pressure-assuming that it was of the normal range prior-had dropped by nearly 43 mmHg to 67 which we would call hypotension, or, low blood pressure."