Saving a Life?
I think I might have saved a life just yesterday without intending to. I don't mean that I wouldn't have intended it if I knew in case that's what it sounds like. I'm VERY glad I saved a life, but I didn't even know that my actions might have saved a friend.
Class had just ended for the day, and I was about to head home. I had promised my friend Alejandra that I'd let her visit my apartment in the past, and I don't know what drove me to ask her to let her come see my apartment YESTERDAY of ALL days I could have asked her. So she agreed and she drove over to my apartment with me. As she stepped into the apartment, her phone rang. At that point, I ran around, trying to tidy up the apartment a little bit more, and I could hear her having a low conversation with her mom.
I noticed after a few minutes, she had been still standing over at the door, and her hand was drooped with the phone in her hand with faint voices [but i didn't take too much notice at the time]. I thought she was being polite and was awaiting for me to invite her to come in or something. I spoke to her, "Hey, you can come in anytime, you don't have to stand there" She didn't reply, instead she looked down. I thought to myself that maybe she didn't hear me but I asked again in case, "Hey, do you want to come sit down?" Then I noticed the whole front of her shirt was soaked in drool, and she looked at me dozed. She was drooling and her head flopped oddly around and then I noticed her mom yelling through the phone "ALEJANDRA?? HEY! HELLO??? ALEJANDRA!!!" She stared at the wall blankly, with no emotion, her eyes half closed.
I felt a wave of fear flush over me, but I tried to stay calm. I swallowed and touched her arm, "Alejandra? Are you okay?" As she heard her name, she seemed to react in a dream-like state "eh?". At that point, I gently took her cell from her and placed it on my ear, "Hello? This is Jenni, Alejandra's friend"
Her mom sounded so relieved. She asked me to let her sit down and told me she'd be okay after a few minutes. I did as she asked, and surely, Alejandra snapped back to reality.
There were a few events after that and I ended up driving her back to see her parents and whatnot.
I found out later, she has some kind of sickness, where she randomly dozes off unconsciously. I was thinking narcolepsy, but she tells me that isn't what she has, but something else. . She can still stand or respond but its almost like a dream, and she can't remember anything. I don't know what it is called, nor does she, but she has to take medication and whatnot in order to help her. She was telling me how she would be 'asleep' for 20-30 minutes at a time, and now after the medication its only a few minutes. I am amazed, I've known her for a year and a half, and I was completely unaware she had this condition.
But I shudder to think, what would have happened if I didn't invite her over to my apartment that day? She would have had to drive about 35-45 minutes on the freeway on her own back home and imagine if she ended up falling half-unconscious on the way there? Things could have been disastrous.
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