Chapter 11

Margot gave Sylvia a very "sincere" pep talk for a while, then finally left when something came up in her department. After that, Sylvia washed all of Gregory's clothes that the nurses had brought out from the ICU. Then, she sat on a hospital chair waiting for visiting hours to begin. "Are you Gregory's sister? You can come in now," a nurse soon came to tell her. "Okay!" Sylvia hurried to disinfect herself, then followed the doctor into Gregory's ward. She was lucky today to have managed to catch Gregory awake during visiting hours. She went up, held his hand, and kept her tone bright and upbeat. She hoped to encourage him to keep cooperating with treatment. "Oliver already started the mobilizing injections. Soon, he'll be able to donate stem cells! "If you're bored lying here, you can start thinking about where you want to go or what you want to do once you're better. I'll be with you." Hospitals were depressing for anyone stuck in them long-term, let alone an ICU where one cou