"How are you feeling now," Anna asked Marcel as he gained a bit of his conscience.
Turning his head towards her replied in a low heavy voice, "What is the time?"
"Half past 12." she replied looking at her watch.
" Why didn't you woke me up?" he said roughly trying to get up from his bed.
"Because you were under sedative and no matter how much I would have tried you would not have been awoken." she said calmly placing the soup table in front of him.
"Take it away I'm not having anything at the moment." saying this he pushed her hand away with the table making the soup spill on her hand.
She bit her lip in pain by burn and keeping the table aside she wiped her hand herself because Marcel was in no sound mental state to even notice what he did. Well to be more precise he never have been in such mental state that he could ever understand her pain.
"At present I would rather tell you that baby is fine doing good and rest is Fiona for which doctors are keeping close eye on her and hopefully she'll be fine soon." She said watching him doing whatever he wants.
In the meantime Marcel got up from trying to remove all the vigo pipes and all.
"What the hell are you doing Marcel don't do this..." she said holding his hands preventing him from doing any such thing.
"Leave me Anna I'm going to see Fiona after that I'll do what you are saying", he said shaking off her hands.
"You can go after when you'll finish this soup and take your medicines because without this I'm not letting you go anywhere." She said handling him the tray.
Throwing the tray he stood up in rage and his voice rose,"What are you doing Anna what the hell is your problem? She is my wife damn it."
"And why aren't you understanding that without proper care you yourself cannot look after them jerk." she replied in the same tone as his.
" Why are you even here? Why are you being so supportive and helpful? Are you showing pity to me ?" He said furiously.
Anna was terrified by the way he shouted at her and trying to hold back her anger and tears she step aside from his way else he moved forward and with the support of wall and door he moved out of the room limping and Anna was left alone with his words echoing in he head.
She sat down on the chair and think to herself that precisely what is she doing subsequently.
She realised that neither he is her responsibility nor they have anything left between them. His anger was not at all wrong because Fiona is his wife and his concern for her cannot be fathomed. She sat there few minutes pondering over her thoughts, tears rolling endlessly down her cheeks and then getting up from the chair she wiped off her tears, picking up her bag she left the room. She decided not to go after him as he is better now and can take care of himself as well as his family. But she couldn't leave and with a heavy heart went towards the ICU, stopping beside him asked, "What happened?" with a low voice
"I don't know as I arrived doctors were going inside and I was asked to wait outside." She nodded in return.
After a couple of minutes doctors came outside the room and there was this really worried expressions on their faces. They took a deep breath and said," Kindly both of you join me in my room." And left one after other.
It is a team of 5 doctors all well experienced and knew what they were up to. There expressions were almost enough to send a shrill down the spine of both of them. With their fingers crossed they moved towards the room but suddenly Marcel stumbled because of his leg and she held him in time and he didn't fell.
"Carefully." She said in a low tone trying not to look at him, while he managed to stand back.
"Nurse can you please get me wheelchair?" She said to a nurse coming outside the ICU.
"I'm fine and I can walk on my own." He said trying to show as if he is fit and fine. Looking at him from upside down she nodded and said, "Yeah I can see even everyone here can see how much fine you are."
The nurse arrived and she looked at him with a straight look which made him sit on the chair silently. The nurse was ready to push the chair towards the room but she held the chair and smiled, "I'll take him myself. Thank you."
The nurse left smiling and she pushed his chair towards the doctor's room but both of them were struggling to avoid all bad thoughts regarding her condition. They finally reached the room, after knocking entered the room and the Doctor's offered the seat to Anna. But still they were in such serious faces as if something bad is coming up.
"Is everything alright?" Marcel asked.
"Their is something really not good right now and I want you to be strong before I tell anything." Doctor Maxwell, the neurosurgeon said with heavy voice.
"You are freaking us out with every passing second doctor." He said almost losing his patience.
She kept her hand on his and held tightly in concern.
The doctor took deep breath and showed Fiona's reports to them and said,"When she reached here she had lost a lot of blood already and during operations the more was lost and till now all could medicines can do they did but..." they again sighed and looking towards Marcel concern in his eyes and continued, "Whatever was in our hands we did but due to heavy blood loss she and her body couldn't make it through and unfortunately she in under coma."
There was silence over there until their minds processed what they just heard. Their eyes were wide open and were looking towards Doctor Maxwell as if hoping this dream to break and they wake up in their daily normal routined life.
"What.... wh... what did you just said?" Marcel said in a low stammer.
"Mr Marcel your wife is under coma and we absolutely are not sure for how long she would be in it.... It may be a few days, a couple of weeks or..... years." Dr. Maxwell told them.
"What do you mean to say...?" Marcel banged his palm on the table and stood from his chair in anger which made his leg hurt more than before and in a matter of seconds he fell back on his chair.
Anna look at him with concerned eyes but there is nothing she can do at this moment.
Everyone was silent even the doctors because they know the situation is critical on both the sides. After all she is his wife and he has a newborn baby how could he even imagine his wife being lying here almost lifeless.
"Doctor Maxwell are you sure there is nothing that can be done?" Anna asked with a sorrowful voice.
"Actually Anna there are certain conditions which lead to the comatose condition based on the secretion of certain glands in one's body. Right now it is very high in Fiona's which lead her to this situation, also she doesn't have any control on it herself. All we can do is to help her normalise these glands through medication but it's simply unknown how long her body takes to response to it." They informed in a complete and easy manner.
"So you mean she'll be under your observation here for as long as she doesn't awakes?" She asked.
"Yes, I presume. Unless her external and internal injuries are healed I would have to keep here otherwise things may go upside down and we didn't even know as she won't be able to tell or show such symptom. And by the time we can re-handle the her condition it might be too late."
Marcel remained silent this entire time, no one knows whether he listened or not but still doctors told everything in as easy language as possible for a non- medical person to understand.
Dr. Maxwell looked at Marcel and continued, " We are hoping that if she stays here we could keep close eye on her and monitor her from time to time which would reduce the chances of any mishaps. And who knows as the time goes by and with her injuries getting healed she may regain her senses also. After all Miracles do happen."
She nodded.
"Miracles, yes miracles do happen...!" Marcel suddenly spoke up looking towards Anna and Doctors.
"Yes they sure do." Anna replied.
"Yes, and I'm sure one will happen right now." Marcel said wheeling back his chair with much effort.