Christina had been having bad dreams.She was in a deep coma.
Sleeping pills' effect did not exist now.
But she still did not wake up.
When Betty was told to rush to the hospital, Christina had been sleeping soundly on the bed for three days.
"The patient woke up once the next day after the operation.She was very emotionally unstable.We thus injected her with a sleeping potion, then she slept for three days.
She woke up this morning.But when we asked her if she had any relatives, she didn't want to talk..."
Seeing Betty coming over, the chief nurse of the Inpatient Department immediately approached forward and briefed her about the situation.
"Police from the Department of Transport checked the video of the street, where the accident happened on that heavy- rainy day.They found that you had a fight with her on the side of the road that night.You should know her, right?"
Betty rushed over in a hurry, and her hair and clothes were a little messy.She stood stiffly at the door of the ward, felt difficult to walk with her feet, and she couldn't walk in.
Betty was surprised and sad when she saw Christina sleeping on the bed, who looked pale and weak.
Betty wondered how did her niece, who had always been energetic, turn to be so delirious and lifeless? The chief nurse also glanced at the bed, looking very impatient.
"She already owes our hospital tens of thousands of dollars in medical expenses.I heard that she even stole a car.No wonder a pregnant woman like her receives no visits from her husband.But her own families can't happen to have died either? No one has ever reported to the police about her missing after so many days.Our director also said that she has mental issues and needs to be transferred to the psychiatry department.But she doesn't have any money with her for the treatment.This is really troublesome"
"She's my niece.I'll pay for her medical expenses." Betty replied to the nurse unhappily.
Hearing this, the chief nurse looked at Betty with contempt and urged coldly, "Since you are a relative of the patient, then hurry up and pay the fee.The total cost today is fifty-three thousand dollars.We can't postpone it anymore.You have to pay it all today.Otherwise, according to the rules in our hospital, we will immediately stop treating her."
"I have told you I will pay.Do you have to be so mean?"
Betty was irritated immediately.
"It's already very humane of us to let her stay here for so many days.If everyone uses medical resources for free like this, our hospital will be in a mess.Why don't you reflect on what kind of person your niece is? A pregnant woman stole a car and drove recklessly up the national highway.Who's to blame for what happened?"
The chief nurse was reasonable to say so.
Looking at Betty's plain clothes, the chief nurse was afraid that Betty wouldn't pay the fee, she then turned around and told another nurse, "Follow her down to the lobby on the first floor to pay the bill.We will also need her to pay the deposit in advance"
No matter how good-tempered Betty was, she was finally angered, "Can't I go in and see her first and pay the bill later?"
"Director Ann lets her lie here for so long because he pities her.Look at the patients in the hallway here.Do you think there are many beds in the hospital for free? We are short of medical resources."
Betty was extremely angry, but she managed to control her anger, "I'm going to settle the fee now.Please look after her!"
She went down to the lobby and waited in line to pay the bill.
The hospital was filled with people every day.The smell of disinfectant was pungent.
From time to time, there were people pushing wheelchairs and beds back and forth.It was noisy here, and the more empty her mind was, the more she panicked.
"The twins are gone..."
She muttered without any emotion.
Although she didn't like the Hopkins family, she still felt sad hearing the twins were lost.
Let alone Christina...
The more she thought about it, the more worried she became.
She hurriedly filled out a form at the window and paid for the fee.She immediately took the elevator back to the 7th floor, where the inpatient department was located.
Christina was still in an independently intensive-care ward.
Judging from the snobbishness of the chief nurse just now, Christina would have been thrown into a common ward or the hallway, if she hadn't been so seriously injured.
Thinking of this, Betty felt very sad.
She didn't even dare to step into this ward, blaming herself for shouldn't force Christina to come back, or she should be ruthless enough and stop Christina from coming back...If so, this would not have happened.
"Christina, you, are you still feeling unwell?" She asked softly as she quietly approached the bed.
The woman lay flat on the bed, her face was pale, her eyes looked empty as she was staring at the ceiling.
She seemed to be deaf and was like a body without a soul.She was lying still.
Betty's heart ached when she saw her paleness and stiffness.She choked and said, "Christina, I'm Auntie.Can you answer me, please?"
"I'm quite worried to see you like this.Let bygones be bygones.Everything will get better.Don’t think too much.Don't think too much."
"I want Patrick..."
"I need to find Patrick."
A low and weak voice was squeezed out of her dry and cracked lips.
In fact, she knew that she could also hear the voices of these doctors and nurses, but she didn't want to speak.
Her heart was numb, and the blood of her whole body was still.She felt like a dead person.She didn't want to listen to anything, she didn't want to think.She was afraid to think.
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