Chapter 2
"Is he going to be alright? I just know it, it's all my fault! If I hadn't been so slow getting home, we would have been in the hotel before the bolt even struck!" A.J. was having a fit, pacing around the waiting room in Sioux Valley Hospital.
"A.J. don't worry so much. Kevin is a tough guy, he'll pull through!" Howie reassured A.J.
The doctor entered the waiting room. A.J. ran up to him and said, "Is he O.K.? Will he be alright?"
A.J., Brian, Nick, and Howie formed a little circle around the doctor. Then the doctor started to talk.
He said, " Hi, my name is Dr. Laroose. I'm the doctor that is treating your friend. Kevin, that's his name right, anyway he has suffered a rather severe concussion and he has a big abbration on his arm were the bolt hit."
"If the bolt hit on the arm, how did he get the concussion then?" Brian asked.
"We think that it's probably from when he fell, maybe he hit his head on the ground or something."
"O.K."
"Well I have some bad news for you. Your friend is . . . . " Donna and Johnny run in.
"How is he? Is he going to be O.K.?" Dona asked.
"That's ironic, that's what A.J. said too," Nick said, trying to cheer up his friends a little. He hated seeing them so sad.
"As I was saying, Kevin fell into a coma. It's not a real deep coma, and he does respond to some pain and light."
"Oh dear god, a coma?" Donna said in shock.
"Yeah but he is expected to wake up any time now."
"When he get's out of the hospital, how long will it be before he recovers completely?" Nick asked.
"We won't know until he wakes up and we can run more test."
Johnny pressed, "From what you know right now, will there be any permenant damage?"
"Well . . . . "