The Second Chance

The fleck Chance When she came to, there was only the cold. She was on her side, against something hard, and it was draining the heat turn up of her, from the very marrow of her bones. She tried to raise her head, precisely had not bargonly come far enough into consciousness. She relaxed, and only then came to understand that she was fraud on concrete. Thoughts flashed randomly, scattered and incomplete. She realized she could not remember her name, and that sudden acumen sent her into panic. How did I get here? She fought to gain control all over her fatigue and the fog in her mind.She lifted a hand and bring she could wiggle her fingers. She tried an eyelid only to let it slam take out(a) again in response to the sharp, blinding light of an overhead fixture. She easily turned her head on the unforgiving concrete, away from the light, and tried again. bingle eye opened, then the next, and as her eye slowly focused she saw a shiny black pair of boots standing next to her . Her eyes drifted up from the boots to the mans face and realized that it was a police force officer shining a flashlight in her face. He sedately said, Dont worry maam. The ambulance is on its way. Youre gonna be just fine. As she began to hear sirens growing nigh(a)r and closer, her eyes began to close again as she slowly drifted back into unconsciousness. She awoke again to find herself in a hospital bed, still panicked and unsure of whom she was. She looked over to feel a nurse staring back at her. When the nurse discover that the patients eyes had opened and was conscious again, she scrambled out of the room yelling for a doctor. The frantic nurse returned seconds later with a tall, middle-aged man dressed in all white who introduced himself as Dr. Wilson. He began by asking the cleaning cleaning lady if she knew her name, to which she replied with a small fluctuate of the head.He then asked her if she could remember anything that happened prior to the fall, to which he received the same response. It is crude for patients with head trauma like yours to have some memory loss, but your memory will usually return in time, the doctor tranquillize her. I will say though, from a fall like that, you are very lucky to be alive. In response to hearing this remark, the woman rolled her eyes and turned over to go back to sleep. by and by a week in the hospital, the woman still has no familiarity of who she is and no one has filed a missing persons report looking for a woman that matches her.Since she has recovered from most of her injuries, the hospital decides to release her to a womens shelter in hopes that they can help her further. But after a few days of being in the shelter and with no progress, the woman decides to go for a walk. She begins walking the streets with no intended direction or place in mind. But the more she walks the clearer things become. And she eventually realizes that she has walked this path before. She soon comes to an all too familiar overpass. As she stands there looking see at the highway below her, she smiles and says aloud, This time wait on a semi-truck before you jump, Jenny.