Room with a View - [Jopper] ✓

Set Your Pace

Jenny smiled as she pushed a large cart into room 240. "Hopper! You ready for your EKG?" she asked, hoping he could hear through his headphones. As he removed the headset from his ears, music blared loudly into the silent room.

"Jesus, Jim. You're gonna go deaf with the music that loud." Jen groaned as she watched him sit up in his bed. It seemed like every morning she managed to nag him in some way when she came to do his daily EKG.

"I didn't want to wake Joyce up so I put my headphones on but she stepped out to grab some breakfast and I forgot I was wearing them." came the bullshit lie, just like every other time.

"Alright, whatever you say." she laughed as she stuck electrode tabs to his chest. "What are you doing today, any plans?" Jen asked as she waited for the monitor to start up.

"Probably get a bunch of hookers and coke." he joked, earning him a deadly glare. "I'm kidding. Probably go down and bully Ethel the lunch lady until she gives me free snacks. My fridge is running low." Jim spoke as he waited for the machine to finish.

As Jenny took the printed scan into her hands, her demeanor dropped into one of concern. Her brows furrowed while she wore one of those signature 'confused and worried' doctor looks.

"Al-Alright Jim. Hang tight, I gotta go grab Doc Owens for a minute. Don't move." she quickly swept out of the room, trailing down the halls to find Sam.

When he was nowhere in sight, Jenny pulled her pager off of her hip and begun typing.

'Pre-Blu - 240'

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"He has no idea. No pain, no signs, nothing." Jenny said as she walked beside Doctor Owens, both on their way back to Hopper's room.

"Alright, the scan says its only mild for now but I'll take a listen to his chest and we can figure out the best route," Owens replied as he picked up the pace of his walk.

As Hopper waited for Jenny to return, he felt anxiety creeping into his chest. Doing the only thing he could think of, he pulled out his phone and began to text Joyce.

"Can u come back 4 a lil bit? Jen found something on the scan."

"On my way."

When Hopper looked up, he saw Jenny and Owens walking into the room with the scan. "Jim, are you in any pain?" Owens asked as he took off his stethoscope.

"No, can someone tell me what is going on please?" he asked nervously as Owens listened to his heart. When the doctor finished, Jenny began applying different electrode tabs to his chest before hooking them up to the monitor.

"Alright, Hop. You're having a mild silent heart attack. Nothing too bad, just try to relax a little bit." Owens glanced at the arrhythmia on the monitor before fishing a bottle out of the EKG cart.

"I'm gonna give you a dose of Nitroglycerin, that should take care of it. Open up," he said as he pulled the small tablet out of the bottle and placed it under Hopper's tongue.

As the pill dissolved in his mouth, Hopper watched as Owens sighed. "I know you don't want to Hop, but we're gonna have to put a pacemaker in sooner or later. I'd prefer sooner rather than later"

"NO! No, absolutely not. I told you I wasn't going to do that!" Hopper yelled angrily as he sat up in his bed.

"Jim, you need to stay calm. I'm sorry but the luxury of a temper is not in your cards at the moment." Jenny said as her hand rested on his shoulder, trying to lower him back into bed.