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Chapter 46 - Nurses came in every hour to check her ୧⁠(⁠ ⁠˵⁠ ⁠°⁠ ⁠~⁠ ⁠°⁠ ⁠˵⁠ ⁠)⁠୨

The following morning...

Leo didn't sleep. He sat in the uncomfortable armchair all night... Every twenty minutes, the blood pressure cuff on Sarah's arm would automatically inflate...

Nurses came in every hour to check her vitals and the IV drip; their gestures were efficient, Leo would nod to them, his eyes filled with exhaustion, before his attention returned to Sarah...

He spent the dark, early hours of the morning on his iPhone. He read everything he could find about dilated cardiomyopathy, about the tests she would undergo, about the realities of the transplant list. He learned about ejection fraction, the measurement of how much blood the left ventricle pumps out with each contraction. A normal heart was 55% or higher. He wondered, with a knot of dread in his stomach, what Sarah's numbers would be...

He read stories from other patients, their experiences a mixture of fear and hope...

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