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Chapter Two “Nurse…” “We’re going to give you something for the pain… you can go back to sleep.” “Hamm” she said as she felt a tiny prick on her arm, where she was given a shot. Soon the medication took effect bringing with it much needed relief from an agonizing pain. As sleepiness claimed her, she put her panic aside over not knowing her name… she would think about it later when it didn’t hurt so much. Right now, she would sleep. It had been four days since they brought her in to the hospital. In the four days, she slipped in and out of consciousness. Most of the time she was doped up on pain killers, it was hard for her to stay awake. It was on the third day that she finally got up and was coherent enough to ask for water. At the time, Travis was visiting as he did every day. He would sit with her for a little while. When the Doctor asked her name she became distraught when she could not immediately recall it. They assured her that it was alright. “These things happen” they told him… “just give her some time.” On the fourth day she awoke, a little better than the day before and a lot more coherent. The Doctors examined her and said she was healing “nicely”. She did not know what to make of that as there was nothing at all nice in the way she was feeling. The upside was - they took most of the tubes out, so she was now breathing on her own. She still had an iv line attached to her hand though, sustaining her with the intravenous fluid she 10