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"Where did I go wrong ?" he asked himself as the wheels of the truck were getting closer. What was it even doing here ? It occurred to him that he might have been the one in the wrong lane. How did it happen ? He did not even feel tired. So where did he go wrong ? He did not have much time to think about it.
"Please don't let me get under the wheels, please don't let me get under the wheels...!"
At the last moment he managed to move his bike so that the truck only hit the back wheel of his motorcycle. The impact sent him flying God knows how high and far. Time stood still as he realized that he was about to die. Why die so soon while he had barely lived at all ? Maybe he would be alright. He did not even feel any pain.
He was not the most cool-headed and communicative EMT, but he was fast and effective, and that was all that they asked of him. Crawford Montizano could not say that he loved his job, but he was the best at it. He did not mind the crazy working hours, so when they called him at three in the morning for a motorcycle accident, he was there in a flash. He found the biker in a field. It was a miracle that the poor guy did not snap his neck when he fell. However he noticed a bad cut around the area of his femoral artery, and although he believed that it had not hit it otherwise he would probably be dead by now, he applied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. Crawford nearly pissed himself when the man moved his arm towards him as he did not expect him to be awake. The poor guy on the ground was fading in and out of consciousness.
Doctor Bubba Zanetti was cold and distant, but the fact that he was one of the best specialists in the hospital made up for it. He was known to make life-saving decisions without hesitation. He saved countless lives and hundreds of families were grateful to him. He was specialized in treating victims of road accidents. He was assigned the case of the nameless biker as soon as he came out of the resuscitation room. He suffered from multiple injuries ; a broken arm and leg, a busted collarbone, broken ribs, a collapsed lung and a serious head trauma but hopefully his vital prognosis was not engaged. His head injury was what worried the doctor the most, since he could be suffering from partial memory loss. Bubba told his nurse to come and get him when his patient woke up.
Nurse Johnny was one of Doctor Zanetti's students and had just graduated from medical school. From student he became assistant for his best professor and he now worked full-time in the hospital. He loved what he was doing and he did it well. He was asked to watch over the nameless biker until he woke up and then to call Doctor Zanetti so that he could introduce himself and explain to his patient what happened to him. So far, the man he was looking after was quiet. The only sound in the room was the respirator next to the bed. Johnny felt sorry for the poor guy. He would thought that he was drunk-driving but his blood-tests came back negative. He heard the sheet rustling, followed by a groan, and then the nameless biker was awake.