CHAPTER TEN
BethIt was fascinating to see Cyle in action. I stayed by his side and watched as he organised teams, assigned students to help out experienced scientists, handed out tasks.
Jenny reassured everyone that the tests were non-invasive and painless, except for when they took blood samples. I knew some people didn’t like hospitals, but for me, the hospital had been a place I’d felt safe. After the accident, everything had been chaos. When I woke from my coma, the doctors and nurses treated me like someone they’d known for weeks – which they had, in a way. I used the time there to grieve and recover. The difficult part was stepping back into the real world and dealing with all the official crap my husband’s death and my long absence from work had caused.
No, hospitals weren’t the
