Remember6

"Everyone barely had time to grab the boys and pull away. Police and abulance started arriving but no could get a response from you. By the time the emergency rescue truck got there, they had realized what Sam had been saying. They found my name and Mel, the boys' mom, in your phone. The boys were sent to the hospital to get checked out and Mel met them there. I was closer to the crash so I got there as they were cutting through your door, having already towed away the truck. They held me back, I was  insistent on seeing you, so once they saw your pulse was steady they let me hold your hand a few minutes while they got jacks ready to raise the car roof. You were wedged in the middle, your belly tucked under you. Baby first," he smiled then, maybe remembering something she no longer could.

"You came free pretty easily after they put the jacks up, they were worried about your spine and straped you to the gurney right away. Bob, a friend from work, had been with me when I first got the call  and had driven me. So when they put you in the ambulance I got in too. There was no way I'd leave your side no matter what they said."

They both smiled.

"Sorry to interrupt, I wanted to let you finish your story," said the man in the door way. She had jumped when he first spoke, having not noticed when he had come in. Charlie squeezed her fingers in reassurance and she relaxed.

"That's alright, Doctor White, it was getting to the end." Charlie turned to me, "This is your doctor, Doctor White, he was here when you were first brought in."

"Nice to see you again, Charlie. And you, your awake! How wonderful!"

"That's what everyone keeps telling me, it'd be nice to know how I came to be alseep for so long, 68 days was it?"

Dr. White replied, "Yes, of course, you must have a hundred questions. I have scheduled a couple tests, scan of you head and back to start then go from there. We have a little time before your due down so what can I tell you?"

Relieved to get more answers she asked, "After the ambulance, I came here and then what?"

"You were in a state that was almost a coma but not quite. This usually occurs in a high stress situation, your body shuts down to try and protect itself. The boulder had put pressure on your spine and you had a large contusion on your head. So we did full body scans and found swelling in your brain and your spine. We hoped that both would go down in time but that didn't seem to be the case. The brain swelling was the most dangerous so I drilled a small hole in your skull and the result was immediately noticeable in your test results," the doctor paused to see how she was doing.

She reached up to feel her skull, she found a patch of hair much shorter than the rest on the right side of her head, "You drilled into my head?! Oh my, this is so weird," She couldn't stop touching her almost bald spot.

Charlie took her exploring hand, now holding both her hands, resting them on the swell of her stomach. She felt a quick pressure of the baby kicking and was awed.

"The baby...it kicked!" She was amazed, she knew she was pregnant by looking at the giant belly but now she felt pregnant. There was a little person inside her!

Charlie was smiling as widely as she was, "Baby likes to kick in the morning. I try to sit and talk every morning."

That made her smile, "This is so cool, I can feel he or she moving around. Do we know, is it a boy or girl?" She asked, then realized she was now saying 'we'. Charlie, was he her husband, boyfriend, what?

"We decided when you first found out you were pregnant to let it be a surprise. We call he or she 'Baby' for now. Baby has a green room at home, decorated with owls," he said smiling.

She turned to the doctor, "So you drilled my head, but Baby was fine, nothing from the crash went wrong?"

"All tests were perfect, nothing had changed to much from the tests taken the week before the crash. We watched closely throughout both surgeries. And Baby has been closely monitored everyday while you slept."

"So if the drilling worked, why was I in a coma for two months?"