"Yeah," Heather replied dryly as she pushed herself up into a straighter position against the pillows, then proceeded to turn the television's volume down a bit. "I'd be dead if it wasn't for -- " She'd been about to say if it wasn't for Sam and Alessa, but talking about Sam just made her remember the conversation they'd had where she'd made a complete fool out of herself and probably turned away the one person who she felt really understood her the most, the only person to do that since her dad.
Backtracking a bit, she said instead, "I lost a lot of blood, so I was going in and out of consciousness the first day I was here. I don't remember too much of it. But yeah, even I have to say it was pretty bad."