He opened his eyes and the vision gradually got used to the daylight again. At first he saw everything blurry, but gradually he began to see everything clearly again. Beside him, a nurse was checking the drip of the medication that was being given to him intravenously, and when she saw that he woke up, she smiled kindly at him.
“Good that you woke up!” She told him, as she now placed the pillow under his head.
“Where am I?” Bernard asked weakly and almost in a whisper.
“You are at the Mercy,” he heard the voice of a man on his left side, and he turned to see Dr. Ernest Holloway sitting in a chair near the bedroom window. “You were very delicate for a few days.”
The doctor got up and stood next to him. The nurse said she would call the doctor on duty to notify him that he had woken up a
