Chapter 24 Chapter 24 Waiting

The ambulance rushed Andrew Steelman to the hospital at 7:42.The road conditions were better than usual that morning. The hospital has received the news, and doctors and nurses are waiting by the bedside. "A thirty-nine-year-old male was stabbed in the back half an hour ago. The patient lost a lot of blood, and his heart stopped beating three times. After electric shock, his heartbeat resumed, but his pulse was weak, and his body temperature had dropped to 35 degrees. Now we will hand him over to you Already." The ambulanceman said and handed over the patient's medical records to the intern doctor in the emergency ward.

Andrew opened his eyes again, and the fluorescent lights on the roof formed a broken line in his eyes as he was wheeled into the operating room. He tried to say something, but the doctor told him to keep his strength.He was wheeled into the operating room. "I'm sorry... Valerie... tell her..." he whispered vaguely. Then he lost consciousness. A police car roared by.A woman got out of the car and rushed to the hospital.She ran across the hall, grabbed the nurses and asked where Andrew was being taken. A nurse stopped her with her body. "I'm his wife," she yelled, "I beg you, please tell me he's alive!"

"Madam, please allow us to operate on him. Time is of the essence. We will let you know as soon as the operation is over." Valerie watched Andrew disappear behind the door of the operating room. She stood motionless, with a glazed expression. A nurse understood her mood and led her to the waiting room to wait. "The surgeons on duty this morning are all the best doctors, and he will definitely receive the best treatment." She comforted Valerie. Simon arrived a few minutes later, rushed to the front desk to ask, and found Valerie crying in the waiting room.She stood up when she saw Simon, and fell into his arms crying.

"It will definitely get better, just watch." Simon's eyes were also full of tears. "Tell me he'll be out of danger, Simon." "I can assure you, it was just a false alarm. I know that. He is a tough man. I love him like a brother. And you know, he loves you too. He was with me yesterday. Said something like that. He kept telling me how much he loves you and he really regretted it. Who the hell did it? Why did you do this to him?" "The police told me to come here," Valerie said, sobbing. "They said no one saw what was going on." "Andrew, he, maybe he saw something..."

Simon and Valerie sat side by side like this, staring at the closed door of the operating room at the end of the corridor for a long time. In the evening, a surgeon came to the waiting room to find Valerie and Simon. They listened to the doctor's introduction to the injured, holding their breath. Half an hour after Andrew was stabbed, he was sent to the hospital. On the way to the hospital, his heart stopped beating several times. Although his life was saved, his consciousness has not yet recovered. The operation went more smoothly than all doctors expected.But the wound caused by the murder weapon was deep and severe, so Andrew lost a lot of blood, and it can even be said that he lost too much blood.It is still impossible to predict whether the patient will survive, and the next forty-eight hours are critical moments.

In addition, the doctor can't tell them more about the situation. He waved to Valerie and Simon, and added, don't give up...because anything is possible in life. Andrew Steelman's story appeared on the front page of The New York Times on Tuesday, July 10. Valerie read the full text to him by the hospital bed, but Andrew still didn't wake up.