Chapter 17
Jami slowly opened her eyes and winced at the blinding lights. "Jami...can you hear me?" a doctor asked, flashing a small bright light into her eyes. "yes." she gasped. "Jami, my name is Dr. Hunter. Do you know where you are?" Jami started to nod but the movement caused pain to flash through her body. "Hospital." she spat out. Dr. Hunter nodded his head. "do you know why you are here?" the doctor asked as his hands prodded at her body. "no." Jami said through clenched teeth.
"You were in the ring, getting ready to face another female wrestler and you passed out. Your friends remembered that you had been taking some pills, what you had told them was tylenol. They went and found appetite supressants and weight loss pills, along with a journal recording your weight loss." Dr. Hunter paused when he heard Jami groan.
"Does this hurt/' he asked, again pressing on her stomache. "No, what you said hurt." Jami told him.
"We did blood tests and found high levels of those drugs in your system. We weighed you and Jami, you barely weighed eighty four pounds. We know your wrestling weight is one hundred and ten pounds. you're body didn't have enough nutrients to let you keep going. That's one reason you collapsed. The other is that by mixing the pills around you managed to accidently overdose."
Jami closed her eyes as the information sunk in. "Your husband, sister and friends are out in the waiting room. Would you like to see them?" Dr. Hunter asked. "No...no! Please!!" Jami begged.
"May I ask why?" the Doctor asked. "Because, they will be furious at me and hate me." Jami told him. "No they won't. They have been sitting out there waiting for you to wake up and be okay." Dr. Hunter told her.
"No, you don't understand. As soon as they realize that I'm okay, they'll hate me. They'll make me wish I had killed myself." Jami said, tears spilling out her eyes.
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Dr. Hunter walked over to Jeff. "Mr. Hardy, your wife is awake now. She admits to using the appetite supressants and weight loss pills." Jeff nodded, "can we see her?" he asked.
The Doctor hesitated for a second before answering, "No." as soon as that word was out of his mouth, Jeff was in his face. "Why not?"
"Mr. Hardy, please calm down. This is exactly why you maynot see her. I asked her if she wished to see any of you and she said no. That she was afraid you would all hate her. That you would make her wish she had killed herself. I can't let that fear turn out to be right. Mr. Hardy, there is something I need to explain to you." Dr. Hunter told him, gently pushing him down into his seat.
Jeff looked at him coldly, a furious glare in his eyes. "What?" "Your wife, she didn't chose this path for herself. I want you to understand this. I have been in contact with her former doctors. They have filled me in on all her past history. To me, it sounds like she let a bunch of things build up. Finally, it overcame her and this is how she controlled her life. She's very unstable right now. Both physically and mentally. your wife weighs only eight four pounds right now. That's about 25 pounds underweight. This isn't just a simple problem. And if anything, I need your cooperation to help Jami. And if you are going to blow up at her, then you won't be helping her at all." the doctor explained to him.
Jeff looked at him for a minute, processing this information. Finally he stood and began to walk out of the hopsital waiting room. "Fuck this." he mumbled as he left.
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