Nigel was feeling groggy and dizzy as he woke up to find his doctor in his hospital room. His ankles were also hurting badly because they were swelling with fluid. He could just barely concentrate on the man's words because of the intense waves of fatigue that flowed over him. What he understood was that his heart failure was getting worse and the medication was not working fast enough to withstand the damage to it.
" But ," Sam Reynolds murmured ," there is new hope. Your heart is failing yes but we may have a new one for you. In fact we need to start prepping you now. "
He asked faintly," Prep for what? "
" A heart transplant, Mr. Norland. We have an available heart for you. He just arrived DOA in the ER and he was an organ donor. "
Nigel froze in his bed. He couldn't believe his ears. He was going to live because some unlucky person had died.
" He was stabbed to death so hopefully the heart is viable but we think it might be. He was not stabbed in the chest. He was ... His throat was slit. The donor was a strong healthy man in his forties. "
" Stabbed? ," he said through dry chapped lips. " Who was it ? "
The doctor shook his head. " I'm afraid we can't tell the identity of organ donors. But it was a recent death. "
His phone rang and he answered it.
It was Richard. He sounded stressed. More stressed than before he had gone home to rest. " Nigel, he's done it again. This madman. He attacked Alfred at Dad's house. "
The phone slipped from his hand. No. Not Alfred. No .......
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ODDS OF LOVE SEASON TWELVE
General FictionThe ongoing soap opera about disabled math genius Spencer Norland - Lane , his doctor husband DuBuis Lane and their family and friends in the Washington DC Metro area.
