Chapter 7
Drake is standing by the door seemed like hours but only seconds since the doctors ran in and pushed him out of the room.
This just hasn't been his week.
The nurse finally walked out of the room and Drake ran to her.
"What's happening?!" He asked.
"The machine registers an elevated blood pressure reading."
"How elevated? What does this mean?"
"Relax Mr. Mallard. There's nothing to worry about."
"NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT?! After the alarm and her hands are swollen. And you tell me that her blood pressure went up. And you tell me to relax?!"
"Her blood pressure went down."
Drake took a deep breath of relieve on that. His heart almost jumped out of his body. When they said that.
"Oh thank god. Can I see her again?"
"The doctor is still looking at her right now. But when he's done. You can go."
"Thank you."
The nurse walked away and Drake sat down in the chair. He didn't know how much more of this he could take.
Gosalyn is laying in her bed playing her favorite hand held video game when Honker comes walking in,.
"Hey Gos." Honker said.
"Hi." She replied without looking up from her game. She still doesn't remember him.
Honker walked in and closed the door behind him and walked to her bed and sat down.
"Um, I bought some pictures of the two of us. Thought they would help you remember."
Gosalyn put her game down and looked at them. "Looks like we was really close."
"The best of friends. Did everything together."
They both paused and before she could respond a nurse walked in.
"I'm going to have to ask you to leave Honker. She needs her bandage changed."
"Oh okay. I get sick looking at it."
He got up and walked out of the room. Gosalyn watched as he walked away, glanced back at the pictures. Nothing looked familiar. But yet, there she is in them with Honker.
Drake is still standing by when the doctor finally walked out of Morganas room.
Something seemed wrong Drake could just feel it.
"You run a test on Mrs. Mallards urine. For protein levels and increase the frequency of her B.P. readings."
"Yes doctor."
Drake ran to them. "What's wrong?"
"Her blood pressure went up again." The doctor said.
Drakes face went ghost white again when he heard that. "What does that mean? She's going to be okay right? Did you see her hands?"
"Yes, there is some swelling."
"Which means what?"
The doctor sighed and paused. "I'd rather not speculate, Mr. Mallard."
"This is serious isn't it?"
"We'll be monitoring her vital signs over the next few hours. That ought to tell us more."
His beeper started to go off. "If you excuse me. I have to take this."
He walked away and Drake took a deep breath and shook his head and his parents walked up to him.
"Drake what did the doctor say?"
"The doctor didn't say a damn thing. He'd rather not say what's wrong with her. All I know is that her blood pressure went up again. And he didn't say anything." He said.
He stormed off and kicked a trash can.
The next morning..
Launch Pad comes walking in the waiting room and saw a sleeping Drake in a chair. He walked over to him and gently shook him.
"Drake?"
Drake woke up and looked at him. "Oh hey Launch Pad." He yawned.
"Get much sleep?"
Drake chuckled and stood up; shook his head. "No."
"What did the doctor say?"
"The doctor? He said nothing. All we can do is wait and pray that her blood pressure went down.."
"That bad huh?"
"You have no idea what the last 24 hours was like. One minute her pressure is down the next it's up. It's like a rollercoaster. They tell that she's stable then her alarm goes off and she's not. Then they say it's all in guidelines. So we have nothing to worry about. I-T don't know when or not to worry. So I'm doing it all the time now."
The doctor walked up to him. "Mr. Mallard?"
"How is she?"
The doctor sighed and hesitates at first. "Her hands are swollen again. Um, her blood pressure is still fluctuating, but not diagnostically."
"Why isn't the medication working?"
"We don't know that it isn't. I'm ordering a kidney function test, and um I'll have the nurse draw more blood."
"Another blood test?!"
"The monitor read her placate count and hierocratic value"
"What does that mean?"
"Red blood cells. Um, a high value can be a sign of pre eclampsia. So can a low platelet count."
"There's gonna be something else you can do for her blood pressure."
"We are limited by her pregnancy. Certain drugs can be transferred through the placenta and harm the fetus."
"Why is it so hard to make a diagnosis?"
"Without talking to the patient about the symptoms. I'm not prepared to speculate or take drastic action. Not till I know more."
"So what we just wait?!"
"I'm sorry."
He walked away and Drake didn't know it what to make of all of this. He shook his head and sat down back in the seat with tears in his eyes. Launch Pad sighed and sat down next to him.
"I'm here if you want to talk."
Drake nodded his head and just sat there.
Gosalyn is in her room talking to her grandparents.
"You want to see Morgana Gosalyn?"
Gosalyn paused and looked at her. "Morgana is here? What's she doing here?"
They paused and looked at her. "She was in the building too when it exploded. A pipe came flying and hit her head. She's in a coma. But amazing the baby is doing good."
"Baby? What baby?"
"She's having you're little brother."
"Wow. Really?"
"Oh yeah. I'm sure that she would love it if you went and saw her.'
Gosalyn smiled and nodded her head. Her grandma helped her out the bed. She's still wearing a gown and slippers.
"Easy. Don't want to hush."
Gosalyn got out of the bed and they two slowly walked out of the room.
As they were walking in the hallway Gosalyn could only see the garage building.
"Gos? Are you okay?" Grandma asked.
Gosalyn shook the thoughts out of her head. "Yeah, I'm fine."
They continued to walk down the hall.
Drake spotted the nurse handed the doctor some papers.
"Here's the paper that you want doctor."
"Thank you."
Drake stood up and ran to him again. "Well?"
"We believe that Morgana could have a condition called pre-eclampsia."
"Which is what?"
"It's a pregnancy related circulation problem."
"Is that what's casing her blood pressure?"
"Yes, it could very be. Now Morganas blood pressure has been spiking intermittently, so we need to continue to monitor her. And I'd also like to look at her labs again. Just to check for any abnormalities."
"What- what does that mean for her and the baby?"
"It's a serious condition. Uh, that can affect the mothers kidneys liver function, brain, and placenta. It can deprive the baby of oxygen and uh, cause material seizures. Now the phase—it's called eclampsia. And that's what can happen is this is left untreated."
"Will it harm her if you treat her and she doesn't have this?"
"Well sadly there's no cure for it. Her condition can remain calm to become server. If Morganas condition progress, the only true cure is to delivery the baby. At this time we just need to monitor whether to not the baby is stable to not."
"So what you're saying is that my son might not make it?!"
"I'm very sorry Mr. Mallard."
Drake sat down in the chair and started crying.
Gosalyn is around the corner and remembered the night before this whole happened. Her telling Morgana that things are better with out the baby coming. She gasped, and took off running the other direction.
"Gosalyn! Wait!" Her grandparents exclaimed.
Molocolo came walking towards Drake and glared at him. "THIS IS ALL YOU'RE FAULT DUCK!"
"My fault! What do you mean this is my fault?"
"If it wasn't for you my daughter and grandson wouldn't be in risk."
"Do you honestly think that I wanted this to happen? NO! I didn't! This is the last thing that I wanted to happen!"
"Hey! Will you two stop fighting! There's no time for this! What matters right now is Morgana and the baby get well." Launch Pad said.
Drake paused and sighed. "You're right Launch Pad. I'm sorry about that Molocolo."
"You better pray that my daughter comes out okay. Or you'll be answering to me!" Molocolo said as he walked into Morganas room.
Eeck and Squeak are next to her along with Archie. Molocolo smiled and sat down next to her. "Morg, you have to get better. Don't worry, I'm not going to let that duck hurt you anymore."
Drake is sitting down trying hard not to lose it when a nurse walks up to him.
"Excuse me Mr. Mallard/
He looked up and sighed. "Yeah?"
"Um, have you seen you're daughter?"
"Isn't she in her room?"
"She was but now I can't find her."
Drake shook his head could anything bad happen today. "You lost my daughter?! What kind of hospital is this?!" He exclaimed.
"I'm so sorry Mr. Mallard."
"It's okay. Don't worry about it. I'll look for her."
This is the last thing that he wanted to worry about was a runaway Gosalyn out there. Who is not well.
He's out driving around looking for her.
"I can't believe that she pulled something like this! She is so grounded again!"
He remembered about her favorite hiding spot, turned the car around and drove off.
He arrived at the tower and saw her sitting out looking at the scene.
"GOSALYN! THERE YOU ARE! You had me worried sick! Twice in one week! You need to go back to the hospital."
Gosalyn sniffed. "Is it true?"
"Is what true?"
"About Morgana losing the baby?"
Drake paused and looked at her. "You remember the baby?"
"Just a little. But is it true?"
"How did you?"
"I overheard the doctor talking to you. So just answer me."
Drake sighed and sat down next to her.
"The doctors are trying everything they can."
"What does that mean? What's wrong?"
"Morgana has something called pre-elcampsia."
"What?"
Drake told her everything that the doctor had told him. She broke down crying.
"I'm so sorry dad. I didn't mean it."
"You didn't mean what?"
"I wished for all of this. I wished that things were back the way it was. Before she got pregnant. And it came true! You must hate me."
Drake got a little chuckle out of that. "Oh so you blew up the building huh? And here I always thought that it was NegaDuck that did it."
"Very funny dad. I'm serious."
"So am I. Look Gos, you're old enough to learn that the world does not revolve around you. These things happen. All we can do is wait to see if she gets any better."
"And if she doesn't?"
"Then they'll have to deliver the baby."
Gosalyn started to cry again and Drake picked her up and held her in his arms. "I know Gos. I know."
Half an hour later..
Drake comes walking in the hospital with a sleeping Gosalyn in his hands.
Her nurse walked up to him. "Where was she?"
"Her favorite spot."
He handed her over to him and the nurse walked into her room.
Morganas doctor is talking to Molocolo he ran up to them.
"What's wrong?"
"Her blood pressure is really high again. I'm going to have another doctor look at her file."
"Why?"
"If it gets any higher it can be deadly."
"What do you suggest?"
"Have a C-section right away."
"But the baby is too young and little!"
"It's a very slim chance that he would make it. A few more weeks and he would have a better chance,"
"Then lets wait a few more weeks. What harm could it do?"
"Mr. Mallard, if we don't do something now. We could lose both Morgana and the baby."
"WHAT?!"
"I'm so sorry. I need an answer soon."
The doctor walked away again and Drake and the others just stood there numb.
To Be Continued..
