Insert Witty Title Here :) - S. N. Albright (ebook offline reader .TXT) 📗

I couldn’t see well through all the nurses crowding Nathan’s hospital bed. A lot had happened since I left him. He had sat down on the bed, and his finger had been attached to a complex-looking machine. This mechanism is what had made the noise, because one woman was constantly fiddling with it to stop the pang, pushing buttons, twisting knobs, hitting the side yelling “We know he’s passed out! We know his heartbeat is too fast! Shut up will you!” her high-pitched, cheery, but now compromised voice was memorable.
“Olivia! What’s wrong with Nathan?” I yelled over the struggling men and women hovering over Nathan’s unconscious body.
“Grace, honey, please go home. We have it covered!” Olivia was now a bit irritable and stressed.
“Not until you answer me! What’s going on?” I resisted.
Olivia grabbed my shoulder and directed me outside; she followed, as to escape from the scuffle.
“Something’s going wrong with Nathan’s heart. Before I decided on some sort of treatment, I took a peek at his medical record, you know, for allergies to medicine or something. Nathan has Tachycardia.”
I had no idea what this meant. I gave Olivia a sour face to explain my confusion.
“Oh, that’s right. You’re not a doctor. He has an irregular heart rate. It’s faster than normal. It’s also very dangerous if it gets too fast.”
“Will he be okay?” I insisted.
“Do you want kindness or honesty?”
“…Honesty.” I whispered.
“To be honest, I don’t know.”

Publication Date: 01-23-2012

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