Hey, sorry I haven't updated in like a week. I'm trying to update like every weekend, but I probably won't get one up till Friday. I've been having issues lately and my chest was hurting. I went to the doctor and they put me on all this medication. I got a little bit of secret research done while I was there. I got a nebulizer treatment and did like five peak flows (they kept getting lower for some reason?) but I didn't get to do my favorite part: the spirometer (all mentioned below). You guys probably don't really care, do you? Thanks again to rcfeather for reviewing! Now, onto the story, but first...
Disclaimer: I played a Victorious game on Twitter today and won! So Dan, I know my stuff. But sadly, I still don't own anything :(
Cat's POV
After Jade's story, we swam a little more, then went inside. Rina was pretty wiped out from her eventful day and Jade put her down for a short nap. When she came back downstairs, we all sat down on the couches. I just had to ask her the question I'd been wondering for a while.
"Jadey, is that why you don't like hospitals?" I asked.
"And being sick, and the color white...and my mother," Jade responded with hatred.
"You don't really mean that, Jade," Beck said, trying to calm Jade down.
"Beck, she lied to me. I was six and she lied to me. Sure I'd probably been lied to before that, but this was big. She knew I hated the hospital and being in the hospital is a big deal for anyone. I have my trust issues because of her, Beck."
"What about your dad? All his choices didn't affect you?" Beck said immediately regretting it. He knew Jade missed the relationship she used to have with her dad before he cheated on her mom.
"My dad had some part, but my mom and her choice were worst. If she had just told me the truth, I could've been more careful, I could've kept my inhaler with me, I could've..." Beck kissed Jade before she could say anything else.
"You still kiss like you did back then," Jade said smiling what Rina called her "safe smile". Rina I guess woke up because soon she was walking down the stairs with Mr. Zebra in her arms. She walked over to Beck and climbed into his lap.
"What are you talking about?" she asked.
"Unicorns," I blurted out. "They're like sparkly magical ponies with horns."
"Oh! I'm hungry Mommy, what's for dinner?" Rina asked and waited for a response.
"I think we're gonna have pizza, what kind do you want?" Jade said.
"I want sausage Mommy."
"Oooooh, can I stay?" I asked.
"Sure, but what about Robbie?" Beck asked.
"Oh, he's with his grandma for a few days," I told them.
Oh, well you can sleep over to if you want," Beck offered.
"Yay, I love sleepovers! And can we get cheese pizza to?"
"Sure," Jade answered with a laugh. "So one sausage and one cheese. Let me go order." I went over to the bag I had brought and grabbed Mr. Purple. I went over to Rina and we played until the pizza came. The pizza was so good. I had two prices of cheese pizza and a peppy cola. After dinner we watched the Little Mermaid, even though Beck said they'd watched it a few nights ago. He didn't complain, though, because it's the only Disney movie Jade would ever watch. I sang along to the whole movie. I like Ariel. She's pretty, a good singer, and has red hair like me. She's actually part of the reason I dyed my hair. I missed that happy free feeling when I was in the hospital. I was watching The Little Mermaid one day and decided I wanted to be just like her. Man I wish I was a mermaid, or a dolphin. Dolphins are cute and all silvery. Anyway, after the movie, we all went to bed. I went to my room and got ready for bed. Since I sleep over Beck and Jade's so much, they gave me a room at their house. I have some clothes there and a toothbrush but that's about it. I usually just go home and come back in the morning but today I wanted to stay. I crawled into my pink fluffy bed and was instantly asleep.
"Cat, breakfast is ready," I hear a voice calling. It sounds like Jade, but I guess it really could be anyone. I open my eyes and Jade is next to my bed, fully dressed with makeup and hair done. "It's breakfast time Kitty."
I got up and got dressed. I walked past Beck and Jade's room. Beck had about five bottles of assorted gels and hairsprays laid out. I guess it takes work to get your hair looking like his does. Downstairs Jade was making French toast. I had French toast at a restaurant once, but I started laughing, then I started chocking and the owner made me leave.
"I think we should get a doctor's appointment so we can start to treat the asthma," Jade suggested. We were all sitting at the kitchen table eating breakfast.
"Okay, I'll call the doctor and make one," Beck answered back. He went over to the phone and started talking.
"And Cat, you can come too if you want," Jade offered me. "But just to warn you, it's next to the hospital." I wasn't too sure about what I wanted to do. I really wanted to go. One, because I wanted to be there for Jade and my goddaughter, and two, I didn't really wanna stay home alone, since Robbie was visiting his grandma.
"I'll come. I want to be there for you guys. Plus, the hospital is getting less scary," I said, more to try to convince myself than anything. It had been nine years since my big hospital stays. I had been to the hospital many times after that, for checkups and testing, when Rina was born, many, many, many times with my brother, but it still scared me. After a history like mine, you never really get used to it. But I'd have to be strong for Jade, like she was strong for me.
"Okay, they can take her at four," Beck came back in and told us.
"We have a few hours to kill, who wants to go to the park?" Jade asked.
"I do! I love parks," I shouted. "They have swings and slides and monkey bars and trees and flowers, ooh and butterflies."
"Okay Cat," Beck said laughing. "The park it is."
We walked to the park and I ran to the swings with Rina.
"Push me Beck," I said sitting down on the swing.
"Me too Daddy, push me," Rina said as Jade lifted her onto the swings.
"Jade, do you want me to push you to?" Beck asked.
"No, that's okay, I'm gonna go over there to cut up some flowers. I brought my mini scissor!" She said happily. Jade went to cut flowers, while Beck pushed me and Rina on the swings. At one o'clock we went home and ate lunch. Rina took a short nap, then we got into the car to go to the doctor's. We had been driving for about fifteen minutes when I saw the hospital. I must have seemed noticeably scared, cause Jade asked if I was okay from her place in the passenger's seat.
"Yeah, like I said before, I'll be fine." We walked into the pediatrician's office and Jade signed us in. We went over to the well children's room and I immediately went over to the coloring table with Rina.
"Ooh, crayons!" she shouted. We sat down and began coloring. I colored my monkey a hot pink color. Rina colored her penguin bright orange.
"This is for you Auntie Cat," she said and handed me the penguin picture.
"When I get back to my house, it's going right on the fridge," I told her. I went over to talk to Beck and Jade, while Rina colored more. Beck was sitting next to Jade, rubbing her hand with his thumb. "You okay Jade?" I asked.
"Yeah, this just kinda brings back bad memories of my childhood."
"It'll all be alright babe," Beck told her. "Remember, this is all gonna help her feel better." I was gonna say something went a lady walked in.
"Caterina," the nurse called.
"That's my name!" I exclaimed. She looked at her clipboard confused.
"This is my friend Cat. She came with us," Jade said as she got up. We all walked back and went into a medium sized room. They took Rina's height and weight, then we waited for the doctor to come in. Five minutes later, there was a knock on the door.
"Hello, I'm Dr. Williams," he said as he came in. Dr. Williams had dark brown hair and eyes to match. He wore brown suit pants and a grey blue dress shirt. Dr. Williams sat down and looked over Rina's medical records.
"I'm going to use this stethoscope to listen to your heart, is that okay Caterina?"
"Everyone calls me Rina cause Caterina's too long," Rina told the doctor.
"Okay Rina, can I use my stethoscope?" he asked again, smiling. Rina nodded her head to show her approval.
"Rina, do you like to swim?" Dr. Williams asked.
"I love swimming. Daddy said that by the end of the summer I'll be able to swim a whole lap all by myself," she told the doctor proudly.
"Okay, you know how you have to hold your breath before you go under the water. I want you to take a deep breath and count to five. Can you do that for me, we'll help you count."
"Okay," Rina said with some uncertainty in her voice.
"Now, deep breath in." Everyone counted to five and Rina exhaled. She took a few more deep breaths, then the doctor sat down.
"Her breathing isn't too bad, but I think you should take her to a specialist," he told Beck and Jade.
"Is there anywhere you recommend?" Beck asked.
"As matter of fact, there's one upstairs. If you guys don't mind, I'd like to take her upstairs so we can better evaluate the asthma," Dr. Williams said.
"That's fine, we have all the time you need," Jade stated.
"Okay, let's go," Dr. Williams said. Everyone followed him upstairs and we entered a large waiting room. Jade instantly was taken back at the familiar space. I guess not much had changed since she had last been there years ago, before her parents got divorced. It had aqua blue walls and sandy colored hardwood floors. There were matching wood chairs against one of the walls. The opposite wall held a large entertainment unit with a large TV and things. One wall had the check in and a door leading to the offices in back.
"You guys can take a seat, I'm gonna go talk to Dr. Lewis. She's one of the specialists here." Jade, Beck, and I sat down and Jade put Rina on her lap. Rina and I watched cartoons while Jade and Beck had silent conversations with each other. Soon Dr. Williams came back with a short lady. She had dirty blonde hair and emerald green eyes.
"Hello, I'm Dr. Lewis. And this must be Ms. Rina. It's nice to meet you."
"Hi," Rina responded sheepishly. Dr. Lewis took everybody back to one of the rooms. It had lots of equipment and supplies for testing.
"We're gonna do a few test to evaluate her breathing and what not," she said. "Okay, this is called a peak flow. It's gonna measure how well you breath out. Just put it in your mouth and blow as hard and fast as you can." Rina took a deep breath and blew out. Then she repeated it two more times. The numbers were low, but weren't a precautionary low. "This one is a spirometer. I want you to take a deep breath and blow for as long as you can. You can either blow ships or houses like the big bad wolf."
"Can I have the houses please," she asked politely. "I like the three little pigs' story."
"You may certainly have the houses." Dr. Lewis put all the parts together and gave the spirometer to Rina. "Now blow for as long as you can, then keep it in your mouth and breathe in when you're out of breath." Rina did as she was told and finally got all the houses down on her third try.
"Great job Rina, you got them all down," Beck said proudly.
"Even better than I used to do," Jade threw in.
"Let's go back to my office so we can all talk," Dr. Lewis suggested. We walked down the hall and entered a room about the same size as the one downstairs. Everyone took a seat and Dr. Lewis sat behind her desk.
"I think we should put her on a nebulizer treatment and get her on some medication. Have her do the nebulizer treatment twice a day for fifteen minutes. Here's a prescription for Advair. She'll take one puff in the morning and one at night."
"Thank you Dr. Lewis and Dr. Williams. You guys have been such a huge help," Beck told them. We all walked out of the offices and went to the car. As I caught sight of the hospital again, I started having flashbacks. I guess Jade saw me cause she suggested we go get ice cream since it was on the way home. Beck drove to the Freezy Queen and we went to order. Beck and Jade got black and white swirl cones since it has always been their ice cream (the chocolate and vanilla swirled together perfectly, just like them). I got a scoop of cotton candy and a scoop of red velvet (it does exist if you didn't know). Rina settled on cookie dough with rainbow jimmies (I called them jimmies, others may say sprinkles). We found a table and ate our ice cream.
"I guess this is our dinner," Jade half asked, half announced.
"Yeah, I guess so," Beck said. After we were done, they took me home since Robbie would be done at his grandma's.
"I'll see you guys tomorrow," I said and waved goodbye as I walked to my house.
"Bring Robbie with you too," Beck shouted out the window.
"KK," I shouted back. I went into the house and put Rina's picture on the fridge. Then I decided to go next door to Robbie's. I walked in and he was sitting on the couch watching TV.
"Hey, how was your grandma's?" I asked him.
"Just as great as it always is," he answered sarcastically. "What have you been up to?"
"Well, I went over to Beck and Jade's after you left. We had a sleepover and I was there all day again."
"Did you eat yet" he asked.
"No, Rina had a doctor's appointment and I went with them. Since it was on the way back, we stopped at Freezy Queen and got ice cream!" I exclaimed, getting excited at the ice cream part.
"Why'd she have to go to the doctor's? Is something wrong?" Robbie asked concerned. I sat down and told him about what happened.
Thought I'd get a little Cabbie in there. Sorry if some of this was really random or the sentences drag on. I got really into Cat and just put whatever popped into my mind. I'm also sorry if there were any mistakes. It's like eleven thirty and I''m about to go to bed, but I really wanted to upload today. Hope you enjoyed it!
-Sami
