"you haven't seen notes for have you sam? ...are you alright?" Noel said floating about in the nurses station for no good reason besides looking for some notes. Sam liftted her head and nodded as she moved over a few steps to the work top. she rested her hands on it and her notes "AHH! there they are!" he said pulling a set of notes from under sams hand. Sam was otherwise occupised, she now felt violently sick, she stood on her tip toes, reached over and grabbed a sick bowl from over the work top then as sick in it. She held her hair back out of the way. "ugh" noel said screwing his face up "thats just..nastys" he said looking funny. Sam looked looked up she still felt faint so walked away putting her basin into the domestic waste can then going to get some water from her locker and two painkillers.
Sam then went to Peadiatrics ICU to see if her patient from earlier was stable. A young pregnant girl, aged 15 with head contusions who had 'had an open displaced tib & fib fracture and was a little traumatised. Sam barley made it onto the ward when she felt faint and stumbled into a wheelchair just threw the double doors. Wilder looked up standing at the "hey..." she said dropping her pen and going over quickly. she took hold of sams hand as she sat down. Sam took a few deap breaths then looked at her
"im fine..."
"you clearly aren't! you're pale and sweating...and you're pulse is racing!" she said with a slightly alarmed and confused face.
Lucy took Sam into the first empty cubical and done a basic examination, noticing tenderness in her abdomen she grabbed the scanner "im going to be fine ...i've just got the stomach flu or something" Sam told her again but lucy wasn't one to give in. "You're stomachs extended and tender? i bet theres free fluid or something in there...did you fall latley?" she pulled back sams top and popped some cold jel onto the scanner then checked her abdomen. But didnt find what she'd expected to find.
"only once...i tripped on the stairs, no big deal...i barley even grazed a knee" sam said doubting the possibilities.
"yeah...it's not a bleed"
"what is it?" sam said not able to see the scanner screen from where she was lying.
"There is...you're baby!" she said and flipped the screen around for sam to say.
"Baby..." sam said starled by the news. she'd raised her eye brows and widened her eyes when she heard the word. She looked at the screen and right enought, she could see a small figure and a tiny heart beat on the screen.
"You're about 17 weeks i'd say" Lucy told sam as she put the scanner back into its pouch, clicked print and wiped sams stomach with a paper towel.
Sam couldn't function right.. Lucy handed her the photo "you still need bloods done, im geussing you're anemic. But im sure you're able to get them done in the ED" she said taking of her gloves
Sam held the scan as she got up now feeling less faint, just thinking about it. She walked down stairs and into the staff room. Tom had seen so he followed "sam?" he said stepping inside and closing the door. The horrified look on sams face was enough to concern him.
Sam looked at him then the scan several times, her eyes welled up with tears, she was unable to get the words out. She then placed the scan down on the coffee bar for him to see. "Sam thats great news" toms face light up at the thought of being a dad. He moved a few steps but never even made it around the table to hug her because of what she said.
"I don't want a baby tom" she swallowed as tears fell.
"What?" he said.
"I have a career and a life...i can't just give up everything i've ever work for to care for someone else..." she managed to squeeze out.
"Its a baby sam...how could you not want it?" he replied a little angry. he sat down and looked at the picture before he persuede their conversation any further.
They had a long discussion about it and after 40 minuites of talking and a little arguing he persuaded her to keep their unborn child. He hugged her tightly "we can make this work sam.." he reassured her.