Point Of View 2 [*Do not read until you've read the same chapter of ATW]

Chapter 63 Slipping In To Bad Dreams

*James*

"Hey sweetie, you ok?" 

It's the first thing I hear when I wake up.

Julia has her arms wrapped around me when I open my eyes. I look around the room. Everyone is surrounding me. I wrack my brain trying to figure out why I feel soo off as well as why I gained everyone's attention. I don't even realize I'm crying at first. I feel so disoriented, more so than usual. This isn't good. this isn't good at all.  I slowly sit up, now remembering we are in lockdown at the Avalon.

"You're ok." Julia whispers. "That one was long. Shhh. You're ok."

Jeremy lightly taps on the door and opens it. Paul jumps up out of his sleep.

"Relax, you big baboon, I texted him. You can sleep through a seizure, but hear that tap?" Jonah scoffs.

"I-I had a seizure? In my sleep??"  I ask. I didn't even know that it was possible to have seizures in your sleep.

This feels more than what I'm used to. My vision is blurry, and my thinking feels disorganized. Saying I don't feel myself is an understatement.  If I didn't know any better, I'd think I was having a stroke. How would I ever even know? My speech often becomes slurred, and my coordination is always off.

Dr. Giovanni did tell me what to look for, though. Difficulty walking, weak muscles, problems with coordination, stiff muscles, paralysis of one side of the body. I mean,  that's me every day without the one-sided numbness. But my vision is blurry, I AM fatigued, and I have difficulty speaking, slurred speech, but that's all just how I am now.

Jeremy comes in and clicks on the small lamp in the living room, bringing my thoughts back to the here and now.  He's holding not only clean clothes but a medical bag as well. Shit. You've got to be kidding me. I lost control of my bladder during the seizure.

"Does he normally have awakening tonic-clonic' grand mal?" Jeremy puts the Avalon clothes and sheets down and immediately checks me out. First, by checking my pupils with a small flashlight.

"Tonic-clonic what?" I ask.

"Nocturnal seizures. No, he's never had one in his sleep like this before." Jonah answers, apparently knowing what tonic whatever means.

"What would cause this?" Julia asks with concern.

"Could be anything, but yesterday was a very stressful day. That doesn't help. Could have been stress-induced."

"But it's fine. I mean, if it happens in his sleep like that... right?" Julia seems just as worried as myself.

Jonah and Jeremy share a look. The doctor and nurse know something, but neither want to be the one to answer.

"Why don't you get him cleaned up, and then we can talk. I'll make up his bed." Jeremy helps me to my feet. Julia is too weak with her detox to help me, so she follows Jonah, who escorts me to the bathroom.

I feel out of it. I'm not sure if it is because I was sleeping or what, but I try to undress myself for the shower but can't even do the things I normally can.

"It's ok. I'll help." Julia gets me undressed but looks at Jonah.

"You're bound to be more disoriented right now. That is normal." He assures me when he notices my coordination is way off.