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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:03 pm
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Seraphine looked a little unusual - in attire, in appearance, and even in the setting. She hadn't been to a hospital in months, if not several years, either because of her health or someone else's. It was for someone else that she was at the hospital in Camphoreon on this occasion, wearing a somewhat more modest dress than she usually chose and her complexion a little paler than usual.
The danger had passed though, they said, and her father was recovering. He would need to watch his blood pressure, however, and a bunch of other things and recommendations that really weren't all that important to the brunette right now. The whole thing had been rather frightening, but now that she knew for sure everything was alright she was endeavoring to forget about it. It was hard to do so while standing in that room, however, so the teen found herself idly wandering through the halls and passing other recovery rooms.
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:03 pm
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For Luke, it was essentially an average day - or at least, what he had recently come to know as an average day. The period of time immediately following his awakening from surgery had been both incredibly stressful and vastly relieving. He didn't really like all this being connected to various monitors and intravenous drips, and he didn't really like the long bandage across his chest, but at least he was alive - and capable of a full recovery, if his surgeon was to be believed. For now, though, he was to spend the better part of January resting, several days of which required him to remain in the hospital's care until it was clear no malignant symptoms were developing. And that was incredibly boring, especially given that the room he'd been relegated to had no window. He compromised by requesting the occasional passing staff to leave the door open on their way out, but the majority of his time was filled with reading. There was a distressingly nostalgic feeling to laying in a clinic with a book in his hands, but it surely was more interesting than idly watching people walk past.
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:10 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:24 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:39 pm
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It was obvious that he was just as surprised to see her there, but at least she wasn't the one stuck in a bed with a million and one things stuck in her. She moved into the room only so far as to no longer be in the hall or the doorway anymore, but lingered near the latter still. Idly she noted the book he lowered, figuring that since he didn't tell his friends (or at the very least, he didn't tell her that he'd be in here, if he even knew beforehand) reading stuff would be the next most interesting thing. Depending on what he was reading, though.
At his question, she opened her mouth to respond, closed it, and glanced down at the floor near her feet, then at a tile a few feet off to one side. "My father," she started quietly as she crossed her arms lightly over her stomach, "had a, um... A heart attack, I guess." Lame finish complete, she allowed herself a few final moments of not meeting his gaze before she indeed looked up to do just that, seeing as it was her turn to ask him the same question. "What are you doing here..?"
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:55 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 5:16 pm
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Well, since hanging out with Luke, bedridden as he was, was much more interesting and much less scary and nervewracking than hanging out in the room where her father was, Sera moved further into his room. She halted uncertainly near his bed, her arms still folded loosely with her hands cupping her elbows, not sure if she should sit or continue to stand. "Yeah, he's fine. Just recovering and stuff.."
She gave Luke a confused frown then, preferring to talk about him as opposed to her father. "You had one too? But I thought.. you had to be old to have heart attacks." A short pause. "Y'know... like, old old. In your 40's or 50's old," the brunette clarified, the frown still evident on her face. "Why would you have one?"
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 6:11 pm
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"That's good, at least," he said with a vague motion of a nod. From his recently expanded understanding, heart attacks were fairly recoverable so long as they weren't terribly severe. Of course, he also had a recently expanded understanding of how stressful and frightening heart attacks were. If Seraphine's father was already improving, that was all well and good, but it would have been infinitely better had her family not been subjected to it in the first place.
"Well, not really…" Man, he knew he knew these explanations (way better than he would have liked, even), but it sure was difficult to summon the words. He continued somewhat haltingly, "Uh, well, it's more common in older people because of coronary heart disease, which is plaque in the arteries, which takes a long time to build up to the point that it can do damage." Was he still making sense? He sort of felt like he was rambling. Hopefully there was sense being made even if he was rambling. "Difference is I don't have coronary heart disease, just a messed up heart. Or, not anymore, I guess, if this surgery did what they say it did."
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 6:16 pm
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Seraphine nodded to his first statement - it was good, yes, but really she didn't want to linger on it anymore, so she chose to keep her response nonverbal.
Suddenly he was saying a lot of words though, and he didn't really sound like himself. Probably a little loopy from pain killers, she figured, since she also figured pain killers probably did that a little bit. Or so she heard they did. The brunette frowned at all of his words, especially the words she didn't know. Of those there were many. And wasn't plaque for teeth...? How the hell would it get in your arteries? Bodies were weird and kind of gross, but she didn't dwell on it, instead offering with a frown, "I guess that makes sense," even though it was still really confusing. "So I guess my father just... Stuff's been building up? I guess..." And Luke's heart was just messed up. It was still rather unsettling to know that such a thing that could take a while to happen, could also happen quite suddenly in someone with a different condition of the same thing. "Well," she started uncertainly, "I hope it fixes what they said it would. It'd suck if you had anymore." But he wouldn't, right? Her dad wouldn't either, surely, since they said he was better now.
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 6:42 pm
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 6:49 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 7:18 pm
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BlackFireKitsune Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 7:22 pm
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If Seraphine had been thinking about it, she would have been glad someone had been tasteful enough to cover up such things as cut-open chests post-surgery, just so she wouldn't have to look at it. But she wasn't, so she didn't.
"Mmn," Sera replied, simply making a noise in response. She didn't really see any appeal in staying in a hospital for a few days, completely bedridden. She'd much rather be at ho-- well, at home, yes, but even their dingy little apartment would be better than a hospital. Maybe. ...actually she wasn't sure. "Well I guess you could always just relax and read," she gestured towards his previous reading material, "or watch TV or something. Either way it sounds awfully boring."
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 7:40 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 7:47 pm
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