Part 24
The doctor confirmed that he was starting respond and that his recovery looked promising and that really lifted my spirits... I took Randy home and we had a great time. Made my wonder why i was so against having children. Paul Started opening his eyes about 24 hours later. The doctors told me it might be muscle but im sure i saw him trying to smile once when i was there. There was no real imrpovement from there on. I was getting so worried that he'd be a vegetable that just looked around with sad eyes.
A week had passed since be began looking around... He was still on the respirator as he wasnt strong enough to breathe by himself... i was talking to him and mentioned that Tim had refused to stop the show. It became tasteless and people were refusing to see it until it was all three of them. Then i told Tim was sleeping with the stage manager.. Rob... thats when it happened... he started to gag and choke on the orepheringeile and the nurses came rushing in to remove it.
I kept calling his name but the nurses told me to get out of the room. I waited for about an hour sitting on the terrible chairs they have in the corridor and finally the nurse who i came to know as Sue came out.
"Well its good news... He's breathing by himself now which means his strength is slowly returning and his brain is continuing to rebuild its function ability. He's sleepin now and probably will until morning so you can go home and come back tomorrow"
I thanked her many times and went back to Rich's house to get Randy then took him back to my place. We had Mcdonalds for dinner as i promised him because he was such a good boy for uncle Rich and felt a sense of peace of mind for the first time since the accident.
i went in the next day and was pleasently surprised to see him sitting slightly, eyes wide and a smile on his face when he saw me come in.
"Paul you're awake!" i cheered quietly and kissed him on the cheek.
He opened his mouth to speak and all that came out was drool and some terrible sounding groany gurgles... followed by a frown.
Oh my god he cant talk.
part 25