"What?" I asked trying to make sense of what as just told to me.
"Miss Meyers your mother has been admitted to xx hospital" the woman began talking about the details of what happened.
My heart dropped I immediately went to the dorm supervisors room and knocked. A sleepy older looking woman glared at me but I was to stressed to care. I told the woman about what happened and her face dropped.
The woman offered to drive me there to which I hurriedly accepted. The whole ride to the hospital was a blur all I remember was worrying about my mother. When we arrived I immediately rushed to the desk and asked the nurse where my mom stayed.
The supervisor came up to me before we entered " I'll let you go in alone if you need anything I'll be out here" and smiled to me. I felt a little less worried but as soon as I reached the door to where my mom was staying my nerves sky rocketed.
"What if she is in a really bad condition" I though to myself but immediately pushed it into the back of my mind.
I opened the door and there she was sleeping calmly my heart sank a little seeing how thin and tired my mother had looked.
"Hey ma, how are you doing" I asked the sleeping figure knowing she wouldn't respond. I sat in the chair next to her and held her hand for the next few minutes until the doctor came in.
"Hello Mrs. Meyers I hope you are doing ok" the doctor came in and said. " Luckily your mom's condition in doing very well but, it looks like she's in a coma." The doctor said with grief.
My heart sank deeper hearing these words, "what happened to her?"
" according to her co-workers she went to work in a very bad state and ended up falling and hitting her head pretty hard." The doctor replied.
Deep in the back of my mind I felt guilty for causing her to overwork herself this bad. If only I had dropped out of high-school and helped my mom support us. These kinds of thoughts ravaged through my head.
Tears started fall down my face as I gripped my mom's hand tighter. "I'll give you some alone time with your mother." The doctor left the room and I was left alone with my sleeping mother not knowing when she would wake up next.
After an hour or so a nurse came in to talk about the bills. This sent me into a while other spiral of despair. Our financial situation was what got my mom into this situation and it is now making my life a whole other level of hell.
The dorm supervisor who was sitting outside came in and then said "is it alright if I pitch in some money?" I panicked knowing that I didn't want someone else to pay for our families burdens but with no other chose I smiled as much as I could in this moment and said thank you.
After this whole ordeal the dorm supervisor and I left to go back to the school we were currently on the drive back. "Hey would it be okay if I dropped out of school." The dorm advisor did not turn my way but a sympathetic expression had crept up her face.
"Sure I mean it is your life but are you sure that's what you mother would've wanted? The whole reason she had worked so hard was for you I presume?" The dorm advisor gave her piece of advice and then stayed silent to let me think about it.
"…you are probably right but, how else am I supposed to pay for her bills and I have to pay you back too…" my face scrunched up thinking about the debt I was going to be in without the support of my mother.
"Look when you are in the situation to pay me back then you can, I don't want you to worry about my debt. That's one less load of your back right?" The dorm advisor smiled.
"I'm extremely grateful to you but what if I never get to that situation? You would be losing a lot of money." I felt despair in thinking about how my future would look like.
"It's fine, plus I know you'll grow up to be someone great, after all you had enough strength to stay strong all this time and not just give up" the dorm advisor said finally turning her head to me to look at me.
"Thank you miss…"
"You can call me Mrs. Hellens"
"Well thank you Mrs.Hellens I don't know what situation I would've been in without you."
"It fine in fact I'm sorry I couldn't contribute more, but if you ever feel like it's too much and want some alone time here's the key to an empty office I don't use." She said as we parked and then took keys out of her purse which she then handed to me.