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    Laid Up: Another Season 3 – Chapter Six

    Story written on April 10, 2006 by PortiaOnly.
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    Story Shortlink: https://assertive-maroon-jellyfish.104-250-143-187.cpanel.site/?p=60413
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    Bette, Tina, and Angelica spend some time; Alice and Dana communicate; Helena and Bette talk; Bette gets some news; Helena has a meet and greet; Alice spills her guts.

    Later that morning

     

    Bette and Angelica skipped sing-along class because Bette wanted to spend some quality time with Tina before the Kennards arrived.  She knew that it would be an emotional time for Tina’s mother.  What mother wants to see their child in such a state?  Tina and Stephanie had been close as children and young adults, but the sisters had moved in different directions as they pushed into their twenties.  Stephanie stayed close to home, working at Duke University and a social life that revolved around the Research Triangle while Tina headed for Los Angeles the same month she graduated from the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill.  Thousands of miles separated them, but Tina and Stephanie spoke by phone and emailed regularly.  It was going to be hard on Tina’s sister, too.

     

    This was one of the reasons Bette had been reluctant to have their friends visit.  She wasn’t certain it was something Tina would want—their friends seeing her with an IV feeding tube, a catheter in her side for waste products, if she was having a difficult day, they’d see a ventilator connected to a breathing apparatus, and there was the ever-present tank of oxygen beside the bed.  This wasn’t Tina.  So far, everyone who had been by had dealt with the image of the once vibrant Tina in this condition.  She hoped Tina’s sister and mother would do as well.  Tina didn’t need emotional turbulence around her.

     

    Bette pushed Angelica into Tina’s room, moving the Blue Bugaboo Frog stroller beside Tina’s hospital bed.  Bette walked over to Tina who was lying on her side (a nurse having turned her earlier in the morning), and greeted her.  “Morning, Tee.  I’ve got some good news for you.  Your mom and sister will be here in just a few hours.  They can’t wait to see you.  You look good, baby.”  Tina’s doctors had seen some basic improvement and had taken Tina off of two coma medications–one that kept brain swelling down and the other that controlled abnormal electrical neuronal activity/seizure– and up to now, there had been no change good or bad that was outward.   The anti-seizure medicine tended to make patients hallucinate, but Bette was unaware if Tina had been afflicted with hallucinations or dreams. The one thing that surprised Bette was that Tina’s expression was not one of someone carefree, but for several weeks, she looked like she was puzzling over something—not worried, but a tad confused.

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    1. Thankyou Portia….I absolutely love this story. That was so touching to read about Angelica and nursing…very touching made me cry. You obviously have invested a lot of time into this story and I for one am grateful….thankyou

    3. So well done. I love the detail about the nursing and the thinking of each character. Not at all superficial. Well-crafted and thoughtful. I’ll await your next chapter.

    4. Your story is one of the few amazing ones on this site. It’s one of those rare stories that elicit intense emotion from me. The sadness I feel when I read this is so palpable it hurts…but it’s a good thing. I would’ve much rather watched this than the season we got. Thank God you write so well, giving me a vivid picture of each scene. Please continue, I can’t wait until you update again. Your fan, Manda L.

    5. Please oh please do not let Tina get any worse. Watching someone in a coma is heartwrenching. You keep waiting for any sign of life inside of them. Sometimes you think that you see something and then you are not sure because you want it to happen so badly. Bette is fighting to hold everything together. She is slowly loosing her own sanity. This is so sad.

    6. You are so methodically filling all the holes in their stories. Your details are rich and full of color. You give us what we need for the picture to be complete. And you are making the Tina-coma sl so real! And we have a process of Dana and Alice coming apart and Lara coming back into the picture. And we see that Helena is a creature of many sides, not just a one-dimensional character, either haughty or humble. Do you think the series producers were afraid that if they delved into the stories with this much detail that they might not be far enough along through Season 3? I was intrigued about the nursing technique and wasn’t aware that it could be done. Thanks for enlightening and entertaining me with your compelling work!

    7. tina has to wake up… i have a bad feeling as to why her mom and sister are coming… i hope its not to take angie back with them… love this story… please continue… soon

    10. Great chapter, thank you. Love your story. You are doing a wonderful job with it showing the various things that happens wiht a patient that is comatose and what one has to do to stimulate them.Thanks for the post.

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