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Post by Tori on Jun 28, 2011 16:53:00 GMT -5
Keeping his frown attached to his lips, Max nodded and thanked the lady again for letting them in so quickly. He then carefully set Naomi on the cushioned bed, making sure she had a pillow to lay her head on. Once he heard her talking to him then, he couldn't help but give a small gasp. "Nai." he almost choked on his own emotions again. "Nai..you don't.." he sighed, "You don't need to apologize for anything." he swallowed the hard lump in his throat that was causing the water in his eyes start to drip down his cheeks one by one, slowly. "And you're not a bother. Not to me, and not to Shane. I love you, Nai. We both love you."
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Post by Mia on Jun 28, 2011 17:00:08 GMT -5
As soon as she was laid on the bed, Naomi weakly rolled over to her side, a tear sliding down her cheek when she saw Max's own tears. "I am." She whimpered, his crying only confirming what she already believed. "I've been nothing but trouble for you since I came back. A-and Shane said he doesn't want to see me again." She began coughing again, this time worse than before though she eventually calmed down, her eyes closed.
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Post by Tori on Jun 28, 2011 17:06:14 GMT -5
Max took a seat in one of the rolling chairs, moving closer to where Naomi was now lying, moving his hand up to her cheek, stroking her lightly. "Nai...You think if Shane didn't want to see you again, he wouldn't be sitting out in the waiting room, filling out papers just so you could get better? He really loves you Nai. He wanted so much to follow us in this room, just so he could see you." he tried reassuring her, kissing her cheek softly before stroking her hair through his fingers.
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Post by Mia on Jun 28, 2011 17:51:09 GMT -5
Naomi's eyes widened, and she looked back up at Max. "H-he is? I-I thought t-that I was j-just dreaming. H-he's really here?" She'd figured she was just hallucinating the fact that Shane had carried her here, and that he'd apologized. She reached up to take his hand, needing that comfort from him. She closed her eyes again, all her energy leaving her again. "I-I want to see him." She whispered, a tear sliding down her cheek.
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Post by Tori on Jun 28, 2011 18:01:38 GMT -5
"Shh...." Max put his finger to her lips. "Yes, Naomi he is here, and you will see him. Soon. But right now, I just want you to rest until the doctor comes in." he explained to her, returning his hand to hers as she took it earlier. "He really is worrying about you though, Nai."
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Post by Mia on Jun 28, 2011 18:27:45 GMT -5
Naomi lowered her gaze, nodding a bit. "Alright." She whispered. She really wanted to see him now, but she guessed Max was right. She closed her eyes, really wanting to sleep anyway. Right before she fell asleep, her eyes opened again and she looked up at him. "I love you Max." She murmured sleepily.
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Post by Tori on Jun 28, 2011 18:43:28 GMT -5
"I love you too, Nai." he whispered back, kissing her gently on the cheek again, watching her eyes slowly drift off to sleep. It's been only about five minutes and Max was already growing more impatient for the doctor not being there yet. With Naomi still asleep, Max carefully let go of her hand careful not to wake her up, and he tiptoed to the door just to take a quick peek to see if a doctor was coming anytime soon. Just as he was doing that then, the door came swinging open, just missing Max's head as he dodged it. "Oh, I'm sorry." Max apologized quickly. "I was, uh, I was just gonna see if you were coming." he told the doctor that had entered the room finally.
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Post by Mia on Jun 28, 2011 18:49:21 GMT -5
Shane quickly finished the paperwork, giving it to the lady at the front desk. "Thank you." She said with a smile. Shane just grunted and stuck his hands in his pockets, turning to walk away. "Uh, you can come back now, if you want. The doctor just went in." Shane turned and managed a small smile, following the lady back to Naomi's room.
The doctor smiled, shaking his head. "No need to apologize. I'm Doctor Wright. What seems to be the problem?" There was a knock on the door then, and Shane slowly walked in. "Sorry. This is my sister, am I allowed in?" The doctor nodded. "Come on in." Shane walked over to the foot of the bed and leaned against the wall, glancing at the sleeping Naomi and then to Max before looking back at the doctor.
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Post by Tori on Jun 28, 2011 18:58:13 GMT -5
Max nodded, returning to his seat beside Naomi. He was about to answer, but was stopped by a sudden knock at the door. Max managed to smile a bit wider when he saw it was Shane walking in, before turning back to the doctor. "Well...I don't know exactly what happened. I was in the car when this happened, and she was on the porch cr--uh, just getting a little breather. Next thing I knew, I heard coughing sounds coming her way then a sudden thump. Shane, her brother, was there too. We ran straight to her as soon as we heard her collapsed." he sighed, "We just...we don't know what happened, or why it happened. It just...it just did." he shrugged, looking to Shane to see if he could point out any further details to the doctor waiting.
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Post by Mia on Jun 28, 2011 19:12:38 GMT -5
The doctor turned to Shane, who ran a hand through her hair nervously. "Ah, well, its pretty much like he said. She was on the porch, me and him were, er talking. She started coughing and then she collapsed." The doctor frowned a bit, jotting something on his clipboard. "Has she been eating fine? Or has there been any type of stress around her?" Shane turned to Max for this answer.
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Post by Tori on Jun 28, 2011 19:20:14 GMT -5
Max turned back from Shane to the doctor for the next question then, furrowing her eyes in concern, glancing over at the sleeping Naomi then back to the doctor. "Well...she hasn't been eating as much as she normally does. And um...sometimes she's even skipped a meal." he bit his lip slightly, looking back up at Shane then to the doctor again. "I mean, I've tried to get her to eat more. And she tries too..but I guess it was just her appetite. It has been changing a lot lately." he finished off.
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Post by Mia on Jun 28, 2011 21:53:07 GMT -5
Shane didn't know that she hadn't been eating. Well, he knew that she hadn't had much of an appetite when they'd left MABTown, but he thought she would've better by now. He turned worried eyes to the sleeping girl, looking back at the doctor once he started speaking again. "Anything else that would stress her out?" Shane frowned. "She's pregnant." He muttered. "And she's getting married." He glanced at Max before turning back to the doctor. "And you say she hasn't been eating?" Shane nodded, his frown still in place. "I'll need you to wake her up. I need to run a few tests and I can't do that while she's asleep." The doctor looked a bit apologetic as he said this.
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Post by Tori on Jun 28, 2011 22:19:28 GMT -5
At the next question Max was about to answer, but Shane had already beat him to it, causing him to look back to him with a shrug in his facial expression. He looked back to the doctor nodding in agreement to Shane's answers, as well as the doctor's following question after that.He heard that he would have to wake up Naomi for a few tests, and as much as he just wanted to watch her sleep, he did as he was told, lightly placing his hand on her arm, shaking her some. "Nai. Time to wake up, sweetie." he tried saying, shaking her just a little more, remembering she wasn't that heavy of a sleeper like he was.
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Post by Mia on Jun 28, 2011 22:34:21 GMT -5
Naomi moaned, shifting a bit and fluttering her eyes open. She tried to sit up, sighing softly and looking up at Max. "H-huh?" She looked around, seeing the doctor, and then, "Shane! Y-you're really here!" Shane looked away, nodding a bit. The doctor walked over to Naomi. "Sorry to wake you miss, but we need to check a few things and I needed you awake to do it." Naomi nodded and cooperated while the doctor took her temperature and checked all her vitals. Finally, he only needed one last thing, and that was to check her weight. When he was done, he helped Naomi back onto the bed, frowning at how light she was. "Naomi, how old are you?" He asked. "E-eighteen." Naomi muttered, already knowing what he was going to say. The doctor looked at his chart, wrote a few things down and nodded. "Just as I thought. Naomi, you weigh barely 110 pounds."
"Is that bad?" Shane interrupted. "For her, yes. See, the lowest she should weigh for her height is 117. The preferred weight is between 136 and 156. Naomi is poorly underweight."
"But what does that mean? Why did she pass out?" Shane asked. "Naomi is malnourished. You said she wasn't eating much, which means that she isn't getting the nutrients and vitamins that she needs." He looked at Naomi and said, "You need to eat more."
"I try." Naomi whispered, looking down. "I just can't."
"Well you'll have to, unless you want to kill your baby." Naomi looked up at the doctor, eyes wide and filled with tears. The doctor hated to be so direct with her, but he wanted her to understand what she could end up doing.
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Post by Tori on Jun 28, 2011 23:07:48 GMT -5
Max listened to the doctor, holding onto Naomi's hand once the tests were over and she was sitting back down again. Once they started talking about her dramatic weight loss, Max was sort of relieved. He had been waiting to hear news about what was happening with her weight. And there it was. As soon as the doctor explained it was malnutrition, Max's concerned eyes turned toward Naomi, then back to the doctor. "I have been trying to get her to eat more. But...like she said, she tells me each time that she just can't. Or, that she's not hungry, or something like that." he tried explaining to the doctor, just trying to help even a little bit.
Once the doctor said the last part though, Max's body suddenly froze. He was just as surprised and frightened as Naomi was. He tightened his grip on Naomi's hand just a little, for his own comfort then, looking at her again, seeing nothing but fear in her eyes. Max leaned over to kiss her cheek softly, whispering in her ear, "It'll be alright, Nai. I'll make you all better. I promise." Max noticed then, that he had been making a lot of promises to people today. Particularly Naomi. He just hoped he could keep all these promises he's keeping with her, the last thing he'd want to do would be to let his fiancee down.
Max looked back to the doctor then, a question lurking in his eyes. "So...basically, what we have to do to prevent any further seriousness towards this sickness of hers, would be just to help her eat more? And to just get the nutrients she needs back into her body? And...she'll be okay then?"
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