Аннотация: Eugene's recovery in the hospital. A conversation with my grandfather.
Chapter 9.4 recovery.
The next day, I felt completely better, and I tried to sit up in bed, but a bunch of wires wouldn't let me. The instrument rack next to the bed began to chirp hysterically, and Ray and Dakar flew into the room. They saw me, half-sitting, entangled in wires, and breathed a sigh of relief. They came up, began to remove the sensors, turned off everything, pulled the needle and tube out of the vein and rolled back the rack.
"How are you feeling?" Ray asked.
"I'm hungry. No, it's not like that.... I'm HUNGRY! Even snufl would have eaten it now!"
"Ha ha ha! Well, then I'll get it now!" says the daddy and leaves the room.
Ray reached between my legs, and I felt something being pulled out of me-it turned out to be a transparent catheter tube. She went to the closet and took out her underwear and pajamas, then returned.
"Let's get dressed?"
I got dressed with Ray's help, hospital pajamas are thick and soft here - a comfortable thing. My father returned with the bowls, put them on the table and opened the lid - the smell almost choked me with saliva. She swept everything away and, stupefied, leaned back in her chair. Both our doctors looked at me with a smile, resting their heads on their hands.
"Yes, you're really feeling better! I had such an appetite that I was hungry too," Ray said.
"Do you have any other suggestions?" My father asked.
"Daddy, did you go to the hospital park, to the bench?"
"No problem!" I went and got hospital shoes from the same closet.
I put on these slippers and went to the exit of the ward, but after a few meters my legs began to stumble, and I stopped, clutching the closet.
"Take your time, hurry up! Come on, I'll carry you", Dakar said and took me in his arms, so we went to the park and left. Ray stayed on duty, even though there was no one else in the hospital.
We are sitting on a bench in the hospital park, and I see a large group of reasonable people coming into it - my whole family. Five brothers, two sisters, mothers, grandmother, grandfather, best friend, and Vasil on the arm with Noverry. The little ones see me next to my father and, uttering the cry of the apaches, the whole crowd runs towards us.
I was squeezed into the state of a teddy bear, doused with tears, scolded, praised, I learned a little more about myself in a variety of expressions.... And when I was completely exhausted from communication, my father, having somehow calmed the noisy crowd of my relatives, led them to the exit, saying that I was supposed to rest. Only my grandfather remained. I sat down next to him, hugged him and snuggled up - he was full of love and tenderness.
"I'm so sorry!"
"For what?" he was surprised.
"For scaring you so much! There are new wrinkles around the eyes, and the beard has turned completely gray."
"That's right, you scared me a lot! Where did we go wrong?"
"Hurry up! The partisans had a rope, it was necessary to be safe."
"Yes, you're doing great, but I'm an old ass! I'm sorry, the chief of civil defense... I missed an elementary thing."
"Don't beat yourself up, Grandpa! Everyone makes mistakes, and so do the rescuers, especially since you're not a lifeguard! It's a sin for Mr. Tanris to make mistakes like that, not for you."
"You're probably right."
"Of course you're right!"
My father returned and sat down next to me.
"You're going to sit here for another half hour, and then, Dad, you're going to bring her to the room for lunch, okay? She still doesn't walk very well. I'm going to go on duty, in case something happens again, he gets up and leaves."
"Grandpa!"
"Mm-hmm?"
"And why did the cable snap?"
"From bird shit, Eugene."
"How's that? It's polymer!"
"And that's it. The shit of the local birds is painfully fluid and sticky, soaked the cable, it became hard - and simply broke due to kinks."