Chapter 4
Zoe woke up the following to someone moving about in her room.
"Max, Max is that you?" She mumbled, half asleep.
"Yes, it's only me, it's only 6 so go back to sleep for a bit you look knackered." Max said as he watched Zoe roll over and immediately fall back asleep. Max decided to join her for a while longer so he cuddled up to her.
The alarm clock went off at 9 and Zoe woke up and made herself get out of her warm comforting bed. Max was still asleep, so she went in the shower and got ready and then went to wake Max up. But she didn't do it any ordinary way: by shaking him or asking him to wake up, she did it the Zoe way: she jumped on him full pelt and then yelled "MAX GET UP YOU LAZY DEVIL WE HAVE WORK TO DO IN LESS THAN AN HOUR SO I SUGGEST YOU GET A MOVE ON!"
"What. Fine. I'm awake, I'm awake ok?! There was no need for that though!" He said laughing and slowly getting out of bed. As he got up, the world went black for a few moments. He stopped dead in his tracks and didn't dare move.
"Woah." He said slowly as it came over him.
"Max, are you ok?" Zoe asked, seeing him just stop.
"Er, yeah, well, I don't really know." Max said slowly
"What's up, what just happened? And don't tell me 'nothing' because something happened." Zoe demanded
"Well, when I stood up, the world just went black for a few moments." Max said revealing all.
"Okay, just sit down on the bed for a bit and I'll go fetch you a drink of water." Zoe said, in her doctor's voice, she was worried. She returned to the bedroom to give Max his drink and to help him. But Max had gone into the bathroom instead to get changed for work.
"Max, what are you doing? I told you to wait, because you don't just black out for no reason, there must be something causing it."
"Zo, in fine, don't worry yourself. And anyway, I didn't want my boss to about at me for being late." He said laughing and it made Zoe laugh as well.
"Yes but I'm sure your boss would let you off if you were sorting out something important. Anyway, just take it easy. If it comes over you again, just stand still until it passes because if you keep walking, you just put yourself in deeper danger. Ok?" Zoe said as the two got I to the car and were driving towards the hospital.
"Yeah, ok. And when we get home, we will have a wedding to plan. Do you want to ask Tess to be a bridesmaid as well as Robyn? Seems though she is your best friend" max suggested.
"Ok, I'll ask her today, see what she says." Zoe said kissing Max as they arrived at the ED.
The ED wasn't particularly busy, so Zoe wandered to Tess' office to ask her. Luckily, only Tess was in.
"Hey Tess, I have something to ask you. Would you like to a bridesmaid at mine and Max's wedding?"
"OMG yes I would thank you!" Tess said hugging Zoe!
"Well, we're planning everything tonight, but you and Robyn are the bridesmaids, and that's all we've really thought about to be honest." Zoe said laughing
"Ok, just let me know everything once you've sorted it." Tess said
"Will do, know I'd best get back to my mountain of paperwork that is growing even higher by the minute!" Zoe said getting up and leaving as Charlie walked in.
"Ah, Zoe, I thought I'd find you here, Ash asked if you could give him a hand in resus with putting a dislocated knee back in." He said
"Ok, thanks Charlie." Zoe said leaving and going into resus to find ash. They put the knee back in its rightful place and then Zoe went back to her office to get on with her work. Half an hour later she received a phone call from Guy asking her to come to his office to help him with this list.
"Oh damn, I forgot about that" Zoe said to herself as she got up again from her office and wandered upstairs to Guy's office and knocked on the door.
"Come in." Came a voice from the other side of the door. So Zoe walked in.
"Hi Dr Hanna, so shall we get started straight away?" He said
"Er yes, how many people have actually applied?" Zoe questioned
"Well we definitely have two up for it, and then there was about six who put their names down, but nothing more got said." He said handing her a list. Zoe took a moment to study it, before getting a puzzled look on her face.
"Wait, how come we have surgeons and physiotherapists up for he job of a consultant in emergency medicine?" Zoe asked confused.
"Well simply because they wanted the job. Tell you what, I'll leave you the list and you can get back to me with the two top ones and then we can pick the final one together, okay?" Guy said
"Ok, thanks" she said leaving his office and heading back down to the ED once again. She bumped into Max along the way and decided to ask him how he was feeling now.
"Hey Max, how are you feeling? Have you blacked out any more?" She asked
"Er, well I feel a bit better thanks, but I've blacked out about twice throughout the day. But other than I'm fine, so please stop worrying about me." Max said, hugging Zoe
"Ok, I just want to make sure you are ok. I mean I'm a doctor for goodness sake, i get worried." Zoe said laughing
"Well, I'm fine, I haven't blacked out for at least an hour possibly longer." Max said
"Ok then. See ya round" she replied before disappearing into her office, which was basically her second home, and carried on with some work, but got bored, so went to go and treat some patients, seeing though she had spent her whole life training to be a doctor!