Free Web NovelChapter 172: The Last Thing She Remembers
The doctor nodded awkwardly. "Sorry about that," he apologized.
"Here’s what will happen," the doctor then began to explain. "Since her blindness is temporary, she will be able to regain her sight with our treatment. As long as Mrs. Lucas cooperates well, we can cure her in about a month. The most important issue we’re facing now is that Mrs. Lucas seems to be suffering from post-traumatic amnesia, commonly known as selective memory loss. We can’t say for sure which periods of time that she has lost, so we need all of you to talk to her as much as possible to stimulate her brain. This might bring her memories back."
Contrary to blindness, amnesia seemed to be much more acceptable.
The loss of memories wasn’t necessarily as important compared to blindness. After all, some tragic memories were better off erased than left to haunt that person forever.
Everyone sighed with relief after hearing what the doctor said as they’d much rather Wendy lose her memories than her sight.
The doctor kept explaining, "Mrs. Lucas has woken up completely, and I can assure you that her life is no longer in danger. Now, we can transfer her to the general ward. I bet all of you are Mrs. Lucas’s closest family members, aren’t you? I suggest you follow me to her new hospital room later because we need to make sure which parts of her memory she lost."
Without delay, Wendy got transferred out of the ICU and into the general ward.
Following the doctor’s advice, they started speaking with Wendy one by one.
Michael didn’t step forward as he knew from before that Wendy had forgotten about him.
Mary was the first person to approach Wendy.
"Don’t worry, Wendy," Mary held her hands in hers and spoke lovingly. "The doctor has told us that your loss of vision will be short-term. As long as we cooperate well with their treatment, you’ll recover in no time."
Mary wouldn’t sound so calm if the doctor hadn’t assured her that Wendy would regain her sight soon. Otherwise, she would have crumbled already.
Wendy immediately recognized Mary’s voice. She rubbed her hands against Mary’s and started consoling her, "Rest assured, mom. I will work with the doctors."
"Do you remember me?" Mary said excitedly.
"Why wouldn’t I? You’re my mother." Wendy forced a smile on her face to make herself look calmer as she didn’t want to make Mary worried.
"Mommy, do you remember me and Leah?" Jake stood on the other side of Wendy,
looking forward to Wendy’s response.
"Mommy?" Wendy found that voice familiar but the memory was deeply buried in her subconsciousness. "Am I really a mother?"
Wendy couldn’t remember giving birth to her kids, but she couldn’t disregard the familiarity of that voice.
"Mommy, how could you forget me and my brother?" Leah choked back her sadness as tears started to fill her eyes.
Hearing Jake’s and Leah’s voices, the image of two lovely children running around her calling her ’mom’ flooded her mind.
She attempted to focus on the images and the voices to uncover those memories buried in her mind, but her head immediately started aching.
Seeing Wendy physically struggling, Jake grabbed her hands. "Stop thinking, mommy," he said without hesitation. "It’s okay that you can’t remember us at the moment. We can try something else later on."
"Do you know who I am, Caroline?" Todd asked her as he gazed at her.
"Caroline?" Wendy asked. "Are you talking to me?"
After hearing Wendy’s question, they all realized that she couldn’t remember Todd either.
Apparently, she didn’t even remember that she was using the pseudonym "Caroline".
Jill barged into the room, panting from running there. "Are you okay, sister?" She asked worriedly after seeing Wendy being surrounded by a group of people.
***
Jill had come to the hospital multiple times after the car accident, but she couldn’t stay with Wendy because of all the work that had built up after Wendy was hospitalized.
Besides, Wendy already had enough company, so she reckoned that she didn’t have to stay anyway.
However, she dropped everything that she had to do and rushed to the hospital after Michael told her that Wendy had woken up from her coma.
"Sister?" Wendy tried to follow Jill’s voice and turned around.
She looked toward the direction of her voice sluggishly and frowned, "I don’t remember having any siblings."
As they tried to jog Wendy’s memory, the doctor stood a few steps back in silence, observing them. Then he noticed Michael not taking any initiative to talk to her, so he walked towards Michael. "You’re Mrs. Lucas’s husband, Mr. Lucas." He whispered to Michael. "I bet she still has some memories of you. Why don’t you go talk to her?"
Michael shook his head as he already knew that Wendy had forgotten about him. He answered the doctor, "Wendy doesn’t remember who I am, but I’m just surprised that she can’t remember Jake either." frёewebηovel.cѳm
Michael knew all of the suffering that he had inflicted on Wendy, so he wasn’t surprised that she had lost her memory of him. However, he knew how she loved Jake unconditionally, so he was upset that even Jake couldn’t bring back her memories.
The assistant standing behind the doctor wrote down what Michael said in her notebook.
In the meantime, the doctor silently assessed Wendy’s reactions to all the conversations she was having.
He walked towards Wendy and said, "Hello, Mrs. Lucas, I’m your attending doctor. Can you recall how you got into that car accident?"
"No, I don’t think so," Wendy said.
"Then, how old you are? What’s your job at the moment?" the doctor continued asking questions.
"I’m twenty years old, so I’m not working. I’m a student in my sophomore year at college," Wendy tried to piece her memories together.
"The one thing I can recall is that there’ll be a conference tomorrow at my college, but I can’t remember who the main speaker is going to be."
Wendy scratched her head and tried to remember the details of the conference.
The doctor had to resort to the people standing around him. "Do you remember which conference Mrs. Lucas is referring to? It might be the last thing she remembers."
Unfortunately, none of them knew much about the activities Wendy participated in during her college years, so they were of no help.
Suddenly, a name came to Michael’s mind. It was Zen Tanner, Wendy’s best friend in college.
"She might know what Wendy is talking about," Michael thought.
Michael looked at Wendy and asked, "Wendy, do you remember who Zen is?"
"Of course," she said as she nodded gleefully.
"She’s my roommate and my best friend."
"Wonderful! I’m calling Zen now," Michael said as he took out his phone and started dialing.
At the other side of the city, Zen was surprised to receive Michael’s call. She thought Michael wouldn’t allow her to get anywhere near Wendy anymore.
"Hi Zen, there’s something urgent that I would love your help with. It’s about Wendy and she’s in the hospital right now. Are you free to come?" Michael asked.
Zen didn’t hesitate to rush to the hospital using the address that Michael provided once she heard that Wendy was hospitalized.
In the meantime, Mary and the others kept talking to Wendy about all the interesting things they’d been through together.
Zen exclaimed with relief when she got to the hospital and saw Wendy sitting on her bed.
"Wendy, thank goodness that you’re awake!" Zen wanted to hug Wendy but paused as she saw how frail Wendy still was.
"Zen, do you know who will be the speaker at the conference tomorrow?" Wendy had tried but failed to recall who that person was, so she immediately asked Zen when she arrived.
