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Greg was sat in the doctor's office, anxiously waiting for his results. Russell had forced him to come here because last week he collapsed at a crime scene. He, Russell and Sara had been on a scene together when Russell found Greg on the floor, sweat collecting on his brow. He'd immediately called for an ambulance and Greg didn't wake until two hours later at the hospital. They suggested he stay there, but Greg insisted on going home the same day.
However, whilst he was there, Greg told the doctor about the other things that had been happening. A week before, he had woke up to a nosebleed, and it was not the first time he had collapsed. He woke up just the day before his episode at the scene on his living room floor, the television playing away to itself.
His doctor had ran some blood tests, gave him a look over, but nothing showed up. That's when he suggested a scan, to which Greg had agreed. Russell had ordered him to have the week off after, and Nick had called around one night to see him. He'd asked about what the doctor had said and Greg told him that tests had been run and everything showed up as normal. This seemed to satisfy his friend and they dismissed it as a freak incident.
But now, Greg awaited the results from his scan in the office of his doctor's. In the days leading up to it, Greg had felt dizzy multiple times, but he didn't mention it to anyone. Not until he knew that everything was okay.
He looked up sharply as the door opened and his doctor came in. "Hey, Greg. I have your results."
Greg leant forward slightly as his doctor sat down.
"I don't want you to worry, okay?" That's when Greg knew there was something to worry about. "Now there's a little mass here, you see this spot," The doctor told him, holding up his scan, "I believe this is what is causing you to pass out. Now, we can look into this a little further, maybe do a biopsy, and find out more about it. However, it's relatively small so it should be treatable."
Greg chewed his lip and nodded, "So it's not serious?"
His doctor shook his head, "Greg, we're talking about a brain tumour here, it is quite serious. But like I say, it is quite small so hopefully we can tackle this relatively quickly."
Greg nodded again, "What is the treatment for it?"
"Well I'll pass you over back to the hospital; you can talk to a specialist, they could do a biopsy like I said, or you can get drugs, possibly radiotherapy or chemo. It all depends on what they think over there." His doctor told him with a smile, "But don't get ahead of yourself alright? We found this early enough to do something."
Greg looked up to him and smiled slightly, unsure of how to feel.
"Hey, Greg." Morgan said as she came up behind Greg in the lab.
He turned around and stopped, "Hey, how are you?" He asked her with a smile as she caught up to him.
"Good, how are you? Feeling better?" She asked him as they walked down the hall.
"Yeah, I'm fine." He answered, knowing that he would get a lot of that question today, "Probably just needed a week off." He said to her with a convincing smile.
Morgan smiled back at him, "I know that feeling. What case have you got?"
"Guy shot at home. His kid found him and waited until his nanny arrived to tell her." Greg told her with a sad sigh.
"Oh my god, I know me and my dad didn't have the best start in life but it's better than having no dad at all." Morgan commented, "That poor kid."
Greg nodded in agreement, "Yeah. I best go and see what I can find out about this."
Morgan nodded, "Alright, meet you for dinner?"
"Yeah, sounds good. Text me whenever you're free." Greg told her with a smile before leaving her and going into his office to work.
After work, Greg went over to the hospital where he met with the brain specialist. They had suggested that the first step would to be to try radiotherapy on its own. Apparently surgery would be tricky at this point as the tumour was quite small and in a tricky part of the brain to remove it.
They had explained to Greg how and when he would have his radiotherapy. They had asked him if he was alright getting to and from the hospital every day and Greg told them that was fine, he only lived about half an hour away. He would go every weekday when his shift ended and would have a few days without it.
They had arranged a few appointments this week for the planning for the treatment and for the mask to be made for him. Apparently this way they could identify where the radiotherapy had to be directed easier. On his next visit, the next day, they gave him a CT scan to get a better picture of where the tumour was. After this, he was set to have his first treatment the following Monday, which he had. Greg was surprised at how quick it was.
He carried on this routine for a few weeks, until something else happened at work.
"Hey man, what you doing?" Nick asked Greg as he came into the lab that Greg was in.
Greg looked up to him and blinked hard before putting his head back down. Nick frowned and ducked his head to look at him, "You alright?" Nick asked him.
Greg nodded, however when he did he felt a wave of dizziness overcome him and Nick seemed to have seen it too.
"Hey, lean on the table, I got you." Nick told him. He was already sat on a stool but the table was right in front of him, so Nick grabbed a hold of his arm as Greg rested his arms and head on the table.
"Are you alright? You feel sick?" Nick asked him.
Greg rolled his head slightly along his arms on the table, "I'm just dizzy", he told Nick quietly.
Nick rubbed his back, "Okay, hey!" He shouted out the room to Hodges.
Hodges came in and became increasingly curious when he saw Greg resting on the table. "Is he alright?"
Nick nodded, "Yeah, just call me an ambulance for him."
Hodges nodded and luckily had his phone in his lab coat pocket. Greg lifted his head slightly and frowned, "Why did you call Hodges in here?"
Nick laughed slightly, "Hey be nice, he's calling you a medic."
"What, Nick I don't need a medic." Greg argued, trying to sit up but heavily swaying.
"Hey, hey, hey, stay like you were. You need to be checked out." Nick told him, gently pushing him back down.
Russell walked by the room and heard Hodges on the phone to the medics and went inside to find Nick's head level with Greg's.
"Guys?" Russell asked as he joined them and Nick turned to him.
"He's passing out."
Russell motioned for Nick to step away and he replaced Nick. "Greg? Can you hear me, bud?" He asked, shaking Greg's arm.
Greg murmured a reply but it was too muffled to decipher.
Hodges came back in the room, "They'll be about two minutes."
Nick nodded and thanked him, then turned back to Russell with Greg.
Russell shook his head with a frown and went to leave, "I'll go and tell them where we are when they get here."
Nick went back over to Greg. "Nick." Greg said quietly.
"Yeah man? You feel okay?" Nick asked him.
Greg pushed his arms out slightly and again lifted his head. "I've got a tumour."
Nick raised his eyebrows and turned back to Hodges who had a similar look, obviously he had heard too.
"What?" Nick asked again.
Greg looked over to Hodges for a moment before closing his eyes as he felt himself begin to sway again, he leant back down and rested his head, "Don't tell any of the others."
Nick was still looking at him in disbelief and that's when Russell returned with the paramedics. Nick was moved out of the way and he looked to Hodges in shock.
The medics leaned Greg back and put an oxygen mask over his face and moved him over to a wheelchair. "Anybody coming with us?" One of the guys asked.
"Yeah, I'll come." Nick called, snapping out of his daze.
The medic nodded before making his way out of the lab and through the hall of the lab where most of the techs had gathered.
"Nick call me when you find out what this is all about." Russell told him.
Nick nodded before following Greg outside and into the ambulance.
Nick sat in the hospital room with Greg who was awake, lying on a hospital bed with an IV attached to him. "Nick, please say something." Greg asked him. They'd been sat in silence once the doctor had told them it was probably a case of minor dehydration, but they would give Greg another scan just in case.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Nick said to him, turning to him with a questioning stare.
Greg shrugged slightly, "I did."
"Don't be smart with me Greg. I mean before just now." Nick scolded him with a defeated tone.
"It's nothing to worry about. The doctors have told me not to worry so I'm not." Greg told him honestly. The doctors had said it was serious, but increasingly told him his chances were good of fully getting rid of the tumour, since it was so small considering.
Nick looked at him like he had two heads. "Nothing to worry about? What the hell, Greg? Are you being serious?"
Greg smirked slightly as he shook his head, "Look, this is another reason I didn't tell you. You blow everything out of proportion."
Nick laughed, "It's not out of proportion at all. Can you blame me for being concerned?"
"No I can't, and thanks, but seriously I'm fine." Greg told him.
Nick nodded, being quiet for one moment before speaking up again, "So how long have you known?"
Greg thought for a second, "About three weeks. It was when I passed out on my scene, the doctor just suggested I have a scan and it showed up."
Nick let out a long breath, "That's a long time, man. Anything else happen before this?"
Greg shook his head slowly, "Not really." Greg sat for a moment before talking again, "I've been having radiotherapy to treat it, I'm lucky my hair hasn't really started to go yet." He commented with a smile, looking up to Nick.
Nick laughed slightly, "You gonna' shave it off?"
Greg shrugged with a smile still on his face, "I don't know, I'll probably just try and cover it up with a hat or something for a while. I don't think I like the idea of having no hair."
Nick nodded, "Yeah, I can't really imagine you bald to be honest."
"No, me neither." Greg said, rubbing his hair with his hand without the IV in.
They sat chatting for a while, not mentioning the fact that they were in the hospital or the reason why when Nick was interrupted by his cell phone ringing.
"It's Russell. I was meant to tell him what was wrong when I found out, am I alright to tell him about… you know." Nick asked him, holding his phone in his hand.
Greg sighed, "Yeah, tell him the truth."
Nick nodded and patted his arm as he answered. "Hey Russell, sorry I haven't called, I've been speaking to Greg and he's doing alright."
"Yeah, he told me something… He has a brain tumour." Nick told Russell, glancing over to Greg.
"He's been dealing with it alright. He's having radiotherapy." He carried on, sticking up for his friend whilst answering Russell's questions. "No, I found out today. I think he's alright, he doesn't want us to worry about him."
"Yeah, okay I'll see you later. Bye."
Nick hung up and looked over to Greg, "He's coming over here now to talk to you."
Greg leant his head back, "Okay, I don't suppose my doctor said how long I have to stay here did he?"
"He just said as long as you get some fluids into you, you can leave later today." Nick told him.
Greg looked up to the IV bag and saw a small amount of clear liquid left in it.
"Alright, can you call Russell back and tell him I'll call him? I don't really want to stay here much longer and I think when that's empty I'll be alright to leave."
"Your doctor wants to give you a scan though." Nick reminded him.
Greg rang the call button attached to his bed. "I need to have my radiotherapy tomorrow, I'll ask if I can have one then." He said to Nick as a nurse came in the room, "Hi, I was just wondering if I'd be alright to leave?" Greg asked her and gave her his best smile.
She smiled back and looked at his IV bag, "Well it looks as though you'll be alright to leave pretty soon, I'll go and get a doctor to see for sure."
Greg smiled again, "Alright, thank you very much."
Nick shook his head, "Why you in such a rush to leave? Maybe you need to stay for a night, you know?"
Greg flicked his eyes over to Nick and smiled as he shook his head, "Don't do this."
Nick frowned, "What?"
"'You need to stay in the hospital', 'you need to rest', 'don't work too hard', that." Greg said to him.
"I'm not doing it like that, I just… it's a lot to take in and I just want to make sure nothing happens to you." Nick told him honestly.
Greg smiled, "Well thanks for the concern, but I really am fine. If anything else happens, you'll be the first to know about it, okay?"
Nick smiled back, "Yeah, thanks."
Greg nodded once and then nodded to Nick's phone, "Can you call Russell? Please, I can call him when I get home or let him know he can call around if he wants, I really just don't want to stay here longer than I have to."
"Yeah, I'll go call him now." Nick said standing up as the doctor walked in.
"Hey Greg, are you in tomorrow for your radiotherapy?" His doctor asked him, picking up the chart at the end of the bed.
Greg nodded, "Yeah, I was wondering if I could have another scan then, I want to leave as soon as I can."
His doctor nodded, "I'm sure we could slot you in sometime, just let Hannah know when your appointment is and we'll book it around there."
"Alright, thanks. Am I good to go now?" Greg asked.
"I think so; I'll get a nurse to take this out for you. Just keep drinking lots of water, okay? You should keep on top of this." His doctor lightly scolded him.
"Yeah don't worry, eight glasses a day." Greg told him as a nurse came in and started removing his IV.
His doctor said goodbye and soon enough Greg was out of the hospital and Russell had arrived outside, pointing out that he would have to come and give he and Nick a ride home anyway.
It had been slightly awkward for Greg, getting question after question from Russell but he knew he was just concerned like Nick was. They dropped Nick off at the lab and then Russell proceeded to take Greg home. When they arrived, he walked Greg inside and went in with him.
"I'm alright you know." Greg told him.
Russell nodded as he stood by the door, "I know. But if you need anything, I know you don't now" He said as Greg started to interrupt, "but if you do, come and let me know."
Greg gave him an appreciative smile and nodded, "Alright I will."
Russell smiled and let himself out, "I'll see you tomorrow."
"Yeah, see you tomorrow."
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