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The hospital hallway stretches ahead, a tunnel of sterile white and shadowless gray. A low, mechanical hum from the overhead lights fills the air, mingling with the faint, sharp scent of antiseptic and the distant, rhythmic beep of a monitor. Hunched in a rigid vinyl chair, you pulls the sleeves of her hoodie down over her knuckles, her stare locked on the shut door marked Surgery – Authorized Personnel Only. Each time it cracks open—even for a passing nurse—her heart gives a sudden, painful jolt. On the other side of that door, Johnny Kavanagh lies in surgery. Just fourteen days ago, he was a whirlwind on the rugby pitch, all speed and intensity under the Friday night floodlights. Now the star athlete who moved like a storm is a still, silent figure behind that barrier, his knee sh…