What we should just say

Patience

Authors Note: Hey guys since I'm not a doctor I have no idea if what I wrote makes any sense medically wise and I'm not a native speaker either, so if you find any mistakes I'll be happy to correct them just comment or send me a message.

Disclaimer: Since neither ABC nor Shonda have overwritten me any rights I still don't own anything...

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We grow impatient when bad things happen because time doesn't seem to pass. And as long as we have no insurance that everything is going to be fine the time hangs heavy on our hands. Seconds seem to last for minutes, minutes seem like hours and hours don't even seem like days anymore they seem to not have an ending at all. But giving up is not an option. Because there are people who we have to fight for. - Meredith Grey

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Although Derek was a doctor and should know that it can take some time for someone to wake up from a medically induced coma, he was very impatient. He grew more and more worried with every minute that she didn't wake up, which was totally unreasonable because it had only been an hour since they had stopped giving her sedatives. Actually, he should have been more worried if she had woken up that fast because that would have meant the sedatives they gave her hadn't been strong enough and that she probably would have been in a lot of pain while she was in the coma.

Several hours later Alex entered the room asking Derek: "Has she woken up yet?"

"No" Derek answered not bothering to upper his look.

For the next few hours, they were just sitting there each holding one of her hands until Derek felt a small movement in his. "I think she just wiggled her fingers," he said.

Alex looked up at Derek and then quickly moved on to Meredith as he saw her slowly open her eyes. When she started coughing he said: "I'll get Bailey!"

Derek was so happy that she was finally awake but at the same time, he saw the amounts of pain she must be suffering from in her expression and that hurt him a lot.

"Mer, I'm here you'll be fine, everything is going to be fine," said Derek with a dropping voice.

By the time Bailey entered the ICU room with a nurse Mer had stopped coughing and calmed done. "Glad to see you awake Grey, we'll get that breathing tube out right away," said Bailey doing some last exams before continuing, "I'll need you to cough up one last time so I can pull it out."

When Mer was finally able to talk again she said with fear in her voice, "Derek, I can't feel my legs..." Her heart rate monitor started beeping faster as panic overcame her.

"You have to calm down. Just take a deep breath," Miranda tried.

Derek put down the railing and laid next to her. He stroked her hair as her breathing slowly shallowed.

"Someone page Nelson," Bailey order again with her Nazi voice.

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They took Meredith to CT. "Her scans are coming up," said Derek. "Can you see this?" Dr Nelson asked pointing on the monitor. "I can Nelson, did you forget that I'm a neurosurgeon myself?!" Derek exclaimed anger coming up in him.

"Dr Grey, your scans show that there is a swelling which is pressing down on your spinal cord which is causing you not to feel your legs." Dr Nelson told Meredith. "So how do we proceed?" Meredith asked confidently. As Dr Nelson hesitated Meredith continue now more anxiously, "you can do something, right?"

"We can't do anything as of now, but it is very likely that it will go down by itself." Dr Nelson started, "but you have to be patient, this could take a day or two but it could also very well be that it takes 6 months," he emphasized.

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