The nurse managed to get them into the other room trying to keep Xander calm. Lysandra did not seem to be affected by this at all. She was just going on still about the weather and how it would be a good season and that they would talk later. She was even moving to usher her brother on. He just shook his head looking to the nurse, “Did you hear that? They were talking together.”
“Yes, Mr. Johnstone, the patients do that sometimes.” she said shaking her head.
“No, you don't get it. They were making sense. Well, not sense to us, but sense to each other” he was looking back.
The nurse just gazed to him as if he bumped his head, “Mr. Johnstone, sometimes they do that”
“But she has NEVER done that... not ever!” he insisted.
The nurse looked to be nearing her wits end. “Mr. Johnstone, our patients here have various issues that we help them deal with. Just because two have similar issues and talk together does not mean we should be getting so excited that we cause a scene that could upset the other patients” she said a bit shortly, but her day had to have been long and a patient's family causing a scene was not helping her day go by any smoother.
He just looked down as the nurse started to take his sister's vital signs to give to the doctor. She checked her pulse ox, took her temperature and even her blood pressure before bringing them to a room. “Please take seats, the doctor will be with you shortly” she said stepping out of the room. She had a lot to notate for the doctor on this visit.
The room was quiet and very awkward. The two chairs they sat in faced a desk and behind the desk were various educational certificates, degrees, awards and other articles from magazines and the like. They were proudly being displayed on horrible wood paneling that was never updated, much like the uncomfortable chairs that had an uncomfortable burnt orange weave on it that was itchy when it touched bare skin. The plant in the corner of the room, which Xan couldn't determine if it was real or fake, was in sore need of attention either way. It was dusty, at best, and potentially dying at worse.
Yet the waiting continued.
After what seemed like forever, though it was less than ten minutes, the door handle made the tell tale jiggle sound as it was being turned. Panic washed over him making him feel like he was a child in the Principal office again, but he shook his head remembering he was here with his sister who was a patient and tried to relax standing as the other man came in.
“Hello Mr. Johnstone, Lysandra” he smiled at the pair. He was professional if nothing else wearing a suit and over it a white lab coat. He came in holding a chart and shook hands with Xander before they all sat down, “I am so sorry about your loss, losing a parent is hard enough, but to lose two in such a tragic way and to have the added change of family life to take on a sibling with such special needs can put a lot of stress on a person.” he said looking to Xander. “How have you been coping? I heard you had a stressful situation a few moments ago that caused some issues”
Xander paused, “Oh, that? That was a misunderstanding, you see my sister was on her way in to be seen and she started to talk to another patient”
He nodded, “Yes, they said that. That her interacting with someone made you get a bit over excited. Your parents had told me that her interaction, while minimal, does happen sometimes”
“Well yes, but no, but... it wasn't that she was interacting... it was that she made sense while interacting” Xan insisted.
The doctor opened the folder, “She was talking about planting and they were referring to you as mentally instable?”
Xan paused, “They were discussing about the weather and traveling to town to get something”
“The nurse stated that they were talking about you being a potential danger...” the doctor was reading over the notes. He looked up over his reading glasses. “This makes sense? You being mentally unstable and a potential danger?”
“Well, no, that part doesn't make sense” he paused, “But they were talking together in a way that it seemed that they were making sense to them.”
The doctor nodded, “So... a pair of people with mental issues made sense to each other and that excited you?”
Xan looked down, “You I...” he felt like a child being chided for coming up with something stupid.
“It's just the stress, you can always simply come in and talk and we can see how you are doing as well as your sister” he offered.
“I'm fine, I just... you saw...” he sighed. “I'm fine, just need a rest”
“If you are sure” the doctor said before starting to focus on Lysandra again. The rest of the visit went on without a hitch. The medicine stayed the same, there was a 6 months period before the doctor wanted her back and said if anything strange arose to call in for an appointment sooner. He also made sure to mention if Xander felt the need to talk to call for an appointment as well which just irked Xander a bit more. He wasn't crazy. He knew what he saw.
