Her and Ryan ran out of the room back towards the E.R. but they soon met the gurney that he was on being pushed to the elevator so they could head to the O.R. waiting on them.
"What's going on?" Dana asked as they fell into line beside them reaching for Carter's hand, even though he couldn't feel it.
"Looks like he has bleeding in the part of his brain that controls his arms and hands. Dr. Cope is gonna go in and fix it," Jessica Spears said as they reached the elevator.
"I'm scrubbing in," Dana said as they started to pile into the oversized elevator.
"No, Dr. Jones needs someone in there to help with the hip replacement on one of the patrons. Besides you know you can't be in there. I'll send someone to update you every hour. Don't worry Dana. I got him," she said as the doors started to close as Dana stood on the other side with her brother.
"He'll be fine Day. You always say that Dr. Cope is the best," Ryan said putting a hand on her shoulder.
"And he is. And you're right he'll be fine. I should go scrub for the hip replacement. You should go call dad and the others. They'll want to be here when he wakes up after surgery," she said turning to him with her tear stained cheeks but now dry eyes.
"Ok. We'll be in the waiting room. Kick butt Day," Bill said pulling out his phone to start making the phone calls he needed to. With a curt nod she turned on her heel and ran off to the O.R. floor.
Exactly an hour later a nurse walked into the operation theater holding a mask over her face. Dana didn't need to turn around to know that she was there to update her on Carter in the room across the hall.
"How's it going Shelly?" Dana asked without looking up from the patient on the table in front of her.
"It took Dr. Cope a little bit to find the source of the bleeding but he's working on it right now. When I left the patient had regained movement in the right side of his body," Shelly spoke without hesitation. At the nurse's words Dana said a silent thank you before replying to her, still without taking her eyes off the patient in front of her.
"Thanks Shelly. Can you go update my dad and the rest of the team in the lobby?" she asked just before the monitor on Mr. Dickson started beeping loudly. With a silent nod Shelly turned on her heels and quickly walked out of the room not wanting to get in the way of the others that rushed to the patient with the rapidly decreasing heart rate.
"Start CPR! What the hell happened?" Dr. Jones asked as Dana started manual CPR on the elderly man on the table. As soon as Dana pushed down there was too much give way. She knew she would most likely break some ribs but she also knew that would be after a couple minutes of CPR, not right away.
"His ribs are already broken. One most likely punctured something, his lung or heart, in the accident," Dana said as she continued CPR as it was the only thing keeping his heart running at the moment.
"Dammit. Crack his chest. Get Dr. Williams up here. STAT!" Dr. Jones said feeling around the man's chest.
"You think it's his heart?" Dana asked as one of the nurses took over the CPR while another prepped his chest to be opened.
"Feel how high this rib is?" he asked showing Dana where to feel the out of place rib. When she nodded he continued grabbing the scalpel at the sametime. "That should be on the side laying against his back almost not in the middle of his chest. He was unconscious at the scene and no one caught the broken rib and he had no unusual heart sounds so there was no way of knowing. I'm just glad he was already on the table when it decided to try to kill him. At least this way we have a chance to save him," he said as Dr. Williams rushed into the scrub room just in time to see Dr. Jones opening the chest cavity.
A.N.: Soooooooooooooooo sorry everyone! Life got super crazy! To horses trying to cut off legs as show season starts and then the clinic got slammed with sick puppies that needed 24\7 watch things never slowed down, and then a major case of writer's block. But I'm back! And if ya'll have any couples you want a story of I will try my best, but bare in mind I don't really know any of the teams\characters past Dino Force.