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wickerpark2015-03-17 06:38 pm
memorylost) wrote in wickerpark2015-03-17 06:38 pm
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Sweet Dreams are Made of These
Gael didn't remember much of the fall. The doctors said it was to be expected, given how hard his head have hit the car he landed on, but it didn't make him feel better. If anything, it made the whole event more surreal than it already was. Clint, his stunt double, had sprained his ankle earlier in the afternoon, which was then followed with a series of other bizarre events. Gael almost felt as if he'd known this was going to happen. He'd known that the pulleys and rigging was going to fail and he would crash down onto the props below with enough force to break his leg, two ribs, dislocate his shoulder, give himself a concussion and bruise vertebrae in his spinal column.
It was the last one that had the staff and the producers most worried. Until it was all said and done, there was no way to know when Gael was going to walk again. Or if he would ever walk again. Maybe it helped his sleeping by not remember a three story fall, but emotionally it just....made it all feel unreal. Like at any moment he could just get up and walk away.
His dads tried to help, when they arrived and listened intently to the doctors as they explained everything. Surgery for the shoulder would have to be done soon, but the swelling in the spine was a priority. It had to go down before they tried anything else. Mildly Gael thought that at least he couldn't feel how much his broken leg hurt, which could be the only positive of it all.
Which didn't seem to translate well to everyone else that visited. Most of them just looked guilty, or wanted to talk business. Allison, a co-star, wanted to bash TMZ for turning it all around on Gael and blaming his hangover. It was annoying, and a blessed distraction- all of it.
Not one that helped him at night, though, when he was stuck in the hospital alone, and staring at the wall wishing he could just most his legs so he could go to the bathroom without having to call a nurse to do it for him.
It was the last one that had the staff and the producers most worried. Until it was all said and done, there was no way to know when Gael was going to walk again. Or if he would ever walk again. Maybe it helped his sleeping by not remember a three story fall, but emotionally it just....made it all feel unreal. Like at any moment he could just get up and walk away.
His dads tried to help, when they arrived and listened intently to the doctors as they explained everything. Surgery for the shoulder would have to be done soon, but the swelling in the spine was a priority. It had to go down before they tried anything else. Mildly Gael thought that at least he couldn't feel how much his broken leg hurt, which could be the only positive of it all.
Which didn't seem to translate well to everyone else that visited. Most of them just looked guilty, or wanted to talk business. Allison, a co-star, wanted to bash TMZ for turning it all around on Gael and blaming his hangover. It was annoying, and a blessed distraction- all of it.
Not one that helped him at night, though, when he was stuck in the hospital alone, and staring at the wall wishing he could just most his legs so he could go to the bathroom without having to call a nurse to do it for him.