If It Ain't One Thing...
Lu gets a page to report to the ER stat. She ran all the way to find her patient Anita messed up on drugs.
Doctor Delgado knows that Anita isn't a user so she orders all kinds of tests on her to find out what the heck is going on. Come to find out Anita had a condom full of heroin leaking inside her vagina. Someone threatened her to traffic drugs, since Anita herself was trafficked into the country. Anita's abusers kept her locked in an old abandoned Victorian house w/ forty other women. One of the men had brought her to the RWHC to get birth control.
Lu: "Anita, Anita, Anita, hello (pause) damn."
Kayla: "Lu you need to look at her eyes they are johndis."
Lu: "I know she's not a user, where is the junk coming from? Anita what have you done to yourself."
Kayla: "Lu Lana has to call the cops since there are drugs involved here."
Lu: "Fine, lets get to the bottom of this get it under control, clean her out & bring her to."
Kayla: "The EMT's said they started a saline drip as soon as they could."
Lu: "How many drops per minute? Who brought her in?"
Kayla: "The nurse said another woman brought her, the woman was pretty shaken up but refused treatment or a check up & ran out of here. About one-twenty per minute."
Lu: "I want these clothes off, cut them off."
Kayla: "Lu she is leaking someone had her traffic some kind of narcotic or something."
Lu: "What... let's get those out of her right now, when are the cops gonna get here?"
Kayla: "Lu I got one, but the other one is broken let's get some saline to help clean her out."
Lana: "Hey Kayla, Lu the OR just called they are ready."
Lu: "I want a full drug screen ran on her, I'm gonna observe the surgery."
-- Anita's surgery goes smoothly & Lu is waiting in recovery by her bed when she wakes up. She jumps awake from her sleep, she was having a nightmare.--
Anita: "Lu how did I get here, what's going on?"
Lu: "Anita you had an accident, but your gonna be fine. You wanna tell me what's going on?"
Anita: "Please don't ask me that Lu, I can't."
Lu: "Why not? It's just u & me here."
Anita: "I don't want to do anything or say anything to upset Mr. Taylor."
Lu: "It's gonna be okay & who is Mr. Taylor?"
Anita: "Some other women, my friends & I were trafficked here from Portugal. We have to work in sweat shops, strip, have sex for money (or be raped for money more like it) money that we never see. We can't even have any say on if the men wear condoms."
Lu: "Anita I'm gonna stay w/ u while the police talk to u so u don't have to be alone & after that I'm gonna get u a number for a women's shelter in Manhattan I want u to call them, or if u want I will & u can take ur friends w/ u."
Anita: "Alright will u help us get there Lu?"
Lu: "I will make the arrangements for u & if u would be more comfortable I will try to go w/ u. The hotline number is one this piece of paper. I won't give u the address b/c I don't want Mr. Taylor getting it."
-- Police doctor for an Anita?--
Anita: "God Lu what do I tell them?"
Lu: "Let's keep it on the DL & once u & ur friends are safe u can tell the NYPD everything. Come in."
Anita: "I was threatened to bring in drugs from a group of guys. I don't want to talk about this."
Lu: "Officers I give u my word that Anita will contact the NYPD as soon as she can."
--Twelve days later--
Anita: "I need to speak w/ Lu please."
Lu: "Anita come in my office, what's up?"
Anita: "Lu... Maureen, Marcella, Katia, Michelle, Justina & I want to go to that place in new York."
Marcella: "Doctor please help us that place is like a living hell."
Justina: "Ten girls in three weeks have committed suicide."
Katia: "It's horrible what we go through every minute of every day & night."
Michelle: "They can't find us & no one will hurt us again?"
Lu: "It's gonna be hard for them to find u & I promise that they won't hurt u again."
Anita: "Lu can we all have complete exams & STD tests, pregnancy tests?"
Lu: "I will page doctor Stowe to help us, she is my partner & she is nice."
-- Lu & Dana run all the tests & perform the necessary procedures. They are all admitted to stay four days for treatment & meds then gonna be shipped out to NY.--
Lu: "Okay let's go the bus leaves in ten minutes."
Marcella: "U coming w/ us right Lu?"
Lu: "I am coming w/ u."
--The women board the bus & arrive safely in Manhattan. Lu gets them to a shelter there & gets them under police custody. The NYPD calls the Philadelphia police has the houses busted & the guys arrested while getting the women protection, medical attention, & to NY to the shelter where the other women are.
