one month. it took one month for Matt to finally realize that he had to get help elsewhere. it started out with a trip to Chicago Med. There, Will Halstead diagnosed him with a bronchial infection and gave him the necessary drugs to help and heal from it. But after two weeks it still wasn't getting any better. They got a second opinion at another hospital which was early ages of Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It made sense considering he was a FIREFIGHTER. The smoke inhalation he has gotten over the years on duty was finally catching up to him. But at the same time he was still very young. Last time he checked, he was 37 years old. Age was just a number but he has met many firefighters over the years; some he is friends with that have COPD. But they didn't get the disease until their 50′s or 60′s. For a about a week he was on an extended sick leave, whilst trying to enjoy a bit of furlow he had earned. Watching the Blackhwaks gave him some comfort, especially when they won. One afternoon Gabby came home from shift and told him of an idea. Did he want to travel across several states just for medical treatment? No, not exactly. But after doing some research they found out this hospital was one of the best with a very talented team of diagnosticians. It wouldn't hurt, and they would be able to see some of New Jersey simultaneously. It was very difficult to breathe and his coughing only got worse. Mutually they decided one day & last minute to fly to Princeton, New Jersey and finally get the treatment he needed. He was missing being a home body and missing shifts. Checking into the Emergency room started out normal. A nurse was the one to start it, giving him this weird look. Did he have something on his face or something? Negative. Several hours into being there he was finally being transferred upstairs. A very short doctor walked in, who introduced himself as Dr. Taub was acting very strangely too, even laughing at one point, mumbling something about this ‘Dr. Chase’ to his partner, a woman doctor. It only made the atmosphere weird. They both were slowly starting to regret coming here if the staff couldn't act professional. Laying back down on a pillow after the doctors left he looked to Gabby with a sigh. Was he going to get help or not? It can’t be hard to figure out, right? @nothouse