"Ms. Sidney your mother is stable, but she suffered a pretty bad concussion. On top of no food or water, she was severely dehydrated. We stitched her forehead, but there is some optic nerve damage to her left eye. We won't know until she wakes up if she lost vision in it."
Jillian was crying, Sam was holding her outside the waiting area. "She also suffered a deep laceration in her right calf. She lost a lot of blood. Were going to test her in the next 8 hours and see if she'll need a transfusion," the doctor said.
But luckily other than that, she's going to be fine." "Ok," Jillian cried, "I have to call my grandma." She was wiping away the tears. Sam felt his heart pounding, he was trying to keep it together for Jillian. She didn't have anyone else. "Listen, there's an area to make calls right there ok, I'll be waiting for you." She shook her head and walked away.
"Doc how soon can we see her?" " Well, she's in recovery now, when we get her in a room, we'll let you know. Are you her boyfriend?" "Yes I am," Sam answered. "Well listen I don't usually discuss this, but I don't know if I should tell her daughter." Sam looked worried again.
"She's pregnant, it's early, probably about 5 weeks, but it came up on the blood tests. To be honest, based on the loss of blood and dehydration, it's very likely she could miscarry. So we'll be watching for that as well." Sam was in shock, "Ok" he said, "Thank you." The doctor nodded his head and left.
Sam was stunned. His knees almost buckled as he sat down in one of the waiting room chairs. There were so many thoughts running through his mind. She was going to be ok, that's all that mattered. But a baby, she didn't want a baby, did she? But she could lose it anyway. Wiley came in the waiting room, looking around until he spotted Sam. "Hey, hey what's going on man." Wiley was nervous from the look on Sam's face. "Sam, man." Sam blinked his eyes a couple times.
"Wiley, she's pregnant." Wiley looked confused." What, wait but what happened, is she alright?" "She has a bad concussion, she was out there for over 24 hours. There's some nerve damage in her left eye and she lost blood from a gash in her leg. But the doc said she's 5 weeks along, but she could lose it with everything that happened."
Wiley was shocked, "Alright, ok well she's ok, and wow Sam." Jillian was walking back towards them. "Wiley, man please don't say anything about the baby, Jillian doesn't know, no one does." Sam was pleading. "Of course, my lips are sealed. Oh man I have to call Pam, she was worried sick."
Jillian walked back and sat next to Sam. "Hey, what did your grandma say." "She's super upset, she wants to come, but I told her it's fine. I'm going to call school and tell them that I need to be out for a few days." She said. "Sam went to hold her hand, "Jillian, no your mom would be so upset if this got in the way of school. I'm here and I can take care of her. Why don't you come back down on Friday, it's only a few days away. We don't even know how long she'll be in the hospital for."
Gillian looked worried, "Yeah but Sam, my mom is all I have." Sam sighed. "I know I'm not your dad, and I would never try to replace him. But you have me too Jillian. I want to be here for both of you." Jillian had tears running down her face, "Thanks Sam." They hugged each other.
When Mara heard those beeping noises again, she thought she was back to that night when Sam was in the hospital. Her eyes opened and everything looked so bright. But at the same time she couldn't see right. One hand went up to her eye, but something was covering it. Where was she? "Mom," Jillian ran to the bed. "Jillian," she coughed, her throat was hoarse. "Oh mom, I was so worried. Hold on let me get Sam, he went to get some coffee." She ran out and Mara was still trying to figure out what happened.
A minute later, they both ran back in. Sam stopped at the door trying to compose himself. "Mar," he was happy, relief just washed over him. He walked over to her and grabbed her hand and kissed her head. Tears started forming in his eyes, "Hey baby." "Sam, what happened." Her voice, he had never been so happy to hear her beautiful voice. "Jilly called me when she hadn't heard from you"…he tried to hold back the tears again, "baby I'm so sorry, I'm sorry about the fight, I'm sorry I didn't go after you, I was just."
"I was coming to see you, I was." She stopped talking and tried to think. "I was leaving the hotel and I lost control of the car on the road. I don't know what happened." Sam put his fist up to his mouth and wiped his eyes. "I called and called you mom, I knew something was wrong, You always call me back." Jillian said.
Just then the nurse came in, "Ah Ms Sidney you're awake. You have quite a fan club here." She smiled, "I'm Rachel, I'm going to ask you a few questions ok." Sam and Jillian gave the nurse some room. She checked her blood pressure and temperature and then made sure the IV drip was working right. "Jilly, do you want to call your grandma, maybe just let her know your mom's awake." "Yeah, yeah, ok I'll be right back." Sam nodded his head. The nurse said she would try to get the doctor in soon and left.
"Sam my eye," Mara was feeling the patch. The nurse had explained a couple things to her, but wanted to wait further for the doctor. "Yeah hunny, you had some damage there. Your vision might not be perfect in that eye." He was running his hand over her hair. "Baby, do you remember what happened with the car?'
She paused. "I, I think I was just rushing to see you and I must have not realized the road turned so quick. I remember trying to get out." "You were out there for a while baby," he swallowed. "Your leg is cut pretty badly too, you lost some blood." He leaned over the hospital bed, his hand holding hers. He was kissing her hands.
"Mara, I need to tell you before Jillian comes back in," he started to breathe slowly, purposely trying to calm his heart down. "Baby, you're pregnant."