When the Wind Turns and the Night's Grow Cold Ch. 7
John was listening intently to the doctor as he told him about his sons conditions. He knew from the look on the doctor's face that he was very concerned about the boys. He could feel his panic rising as the doctor told him about having to start the boys on warming fluids through their IV's. It meant his boys were worse of than he could even imagine.
As the doctor continued with his talk, John watched as a nurse came running into the room with an extremely agitated look on her face.
"Doctor Daniels, you are needed in the PICU right away. One of the boys has crashed and they've called a code blue!" she said
John's blood pressure shot sky high at hearing one of his son's could possibly be dying right now. His started struggling for breath as a panic attack took over his body. He couldn't think, he couldn't breathe. He prayed to God to please let his boys live as he succumbed to the darkness encroaching on his vision as medical help came rushing into this room and Dr. Daniels left to take care of his young patients.
Caleb stood back and watched as John was given immediate medical help from the nurses. As one nurse was taking his pulse and blood pressure, another was hooking up an oxygen mask and putting it over his nose and mouth.
As the doctor on call came rushing in, the nurse said "BP is 180 over 100, pulse is 95 and rapid. The doctor quickly called out orders for medication to lower John's blood pressure and a sedative to keep him asleep until his blood pressure could be brought under control.
Knowing that John was being taken care of, Caleb rushed to the PICU to be with the boys. He was terrified to find out which child had coded and whether or not he had survived. If he lost one of his children, John would never survive the loss and would soon follow that child.
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Dr. Daniels rushed out of John Winchester's room and ran up the steps leading the PICU not wanting to wait for an elevator. He swiped his card to gain admittance quickly and rushed into the boys room to find Nurse Janet already performing toddler CPR on young Sammy. He started calling out orders as Jackie entered the room with a crash cart containing a defibrillation unit if needed.
Janet stepped back as Dr. Daniels approached the bed with Sammy in it. He watched the child for ten seconds to see if there was any change with the CPR that Janet had performed. Seeing no change, he quickly pinched Sammy's nose closed and placed his mouth over Sam's and gave him two gentle breaths, each one lasting approximately one second. He then paused to let the air flow back out. He started chest compressions by placing his right hand on Sammy's sternum and pressed down gently but forcefully enough to try and get Sam's heart started again. While he was giving the compressions, the doc said "Come on Sammy, don't you do this. You fight little buddy. Your family needs you."
Janet was near tears as she watched Dr. Daniels doing the compressions. She knew he had become very attached to the two little boys even though doctors are supposed to remain neutral about their patients. She knew how devastated Cody would be if he lost the child. Janet was drawn out of her musings by the sound of Cody's voice.
"Jackie, get the kid hooked up to the cardiac monitor quick. Janet pull that defibrillator over here and get it set for a hundred and fifty jewels just in case."
By the time that Nurse Jackie had Sammy hooked up, the machine was showing that he was in ventricular fibrillation. The doctor applied the paddles to Sammy's chest and side and shocked his little body causing it to raise for a second and then fall back to the bed.
As Dr. Daniels watched the monitor, he was relieved to see Sammy fall into a normal cardiac rhythm once again.
"Thank God, you really had me scared there kiddo" he said as he brushed back the hair on Sammy's head. He didn't know what he saw that had caused him to become so attached to the child, he just knew he had to save him as well as his big brother.
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As Caleb had gained entrance to the PICU he could immediately see all the frantic activity going on at the time in the boys room, he walked up to the door unhindered by the nurses who recognized him as being the boys uncle.
Caleb immediately paled at seeing the doctor doing CPR on the youngest Winchester. He felt nauseous and thought his knees might buckle and seeing the toddler so near to death. Tears began flowing down his face as watched Dr. Daniels performing the life saving techniques that would hopefully save the child.
Caleb thought his own heart would stop when he saw the baby, because that's how he was picturing Sammy right now, being shocked with the defibrillation machine. He gasped in relief at hearing the doctor thanking God when Sammy had been shocked into a normal rhythm as his knees finally gave way and he slid down the wall to the floor and cried.
Dr. Daniels heard a gasp behind him and turned around just in time to see Caleb sliding down the wall in tears. After making sure that Sammy was once again stable, he walked out into the hallway to check on Caleb.
Dr. Daniels bent down and rested his hand on Caleb's shoulder.
"Caleb, how you feeling?" he asked as he tried to comfort the man.
"I don't, I mean, it just hurt so bad to see Sammy nearly dying like that ya know. If John lost either one of those boys he would never survive. Hell, even Dean wouldn't survive the loss of his baby brother."
"So the brothers are pretty close then huh?" Dr Daniels asked as he smiled at Caleb.
"Yeah as close as two brothers can possibly be. They lost their mother in a fire when Sammy was only six months old and Dean carried Sammy out of the house as John tried to save his wife. Since then, Dean has felt responsible for Sammy. His whole world revolves around Sammy."
"Well then" stated Cody Daniels, "We'll just have to make sure that both boys survive this setback."
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When Caleb finally made his way back to John's room, he walked in to see him struggling with the nurses trying to get out of the bed.
"Leave me alone damn it! I need to get to the pediatric ward to see my boys, one of them could be dying right now" John said as he pushed the nurse away and slung his legs off the side of the bed.
Seeing that the nurse was fighting a losing battle, Caleb said "John calm down. The boys are still alive, I just left their room."
John looked up at Caleb with tears flowing down his face and said "Please Caleb, I'm begging you, take me to my boys."
Caleb nearly lost it when he saw the shattered look in his friend's eyes. He knew there was no way he could turn down John's request. He would do whatever was necessary to get John to his sons.
After talking with the nurses, Caleb strolled back into John's room pushing a wheelchair.
"The only way they'll let me take you to the PICU is if you ride in this thing John"
John quickly agreed knowing that he could get to his boys quicker by following the rules this one time.
Caleb helped John into the chair and then hung his IV from a stand that was attached to the back of the chair. He guided his friend out the door and to the elevator that would take them to the boys.
As they approached the PICU, John was getting a queasy feeling in his stomach. He was nervous about seeing the boys for the first time since the accident. How would they look? Would they even know that he was there? It didn't matter though if they didn't because he so desperately needed to see them, to know that they were alive.
Caleb pushed John up to the door leading to his boys room,
"You ready John?" he asked before pushing him inside the room. He wanted to make sure that John was prepared before he took him inside.
"Yeah Caleb, let's do this"
Caleb and John entered the boys room and John's hand immediately shot to his mouth at seeing both of his boys hooked up to so many machines. It hurt to see his boys hooked up to cardiac monitors and to see the many different IV's that were hooked to his son's arms. He noticed that both boys also had oxygen masks over their faces that misted with each breath they took. The tears began to flow down John's face as he continued to assess his boys from head to toe.
With a shaky voice, John said "Caleb, I need to be near my boys. Can you position me so that I'll be between their beds?"
Caleb didn't even answer the question, he just pushed John's chair between his boys beds and then quietly left the room to allow John to spend some time alone with his boys.
"H-hey boys, daddy's here. I'm right here for you and I'm not leaving. I love you boys and I need you to fight for daddy okay? Come back to me, please don't leave me!" And with those words, John began to cry the most heart wrenching sobs that Caleb had ever heard as he stood just outside the door.
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Dr. Daniels walked into the boys room a few hours later to find John sitting quietly between the boys beds and watching them intently. He saw John look up as he entered the room.
"I'm just going to check their vitals and see how they're doing" the doctor said as he began to look at the readouts on the machines. He was pleased to see that Sammy's heartbeat and respirations seemed to be getting a little stronger. When he checked his temperature, he was happy to see that it had risen by two degrees.
"Sammy's fighting John. His temperature is up by two degrees which is a very good sign. Hopefully, he'll show signs of waking soon" said the doc as he walked over to check on Dean.
John was ecstatic to hear the news about Sammy and it showed by the look on his face. His eyes lit up and a huge smile crossed his face. He hoped things would be the same for Dean also.
As he checked Dean's vitals, Cody noticed that he hadn't improved any from the last time they were checked and his body temperature remained the same. "Damn, this isn't good" he thought.
Dr. Daniels looked at John with concern clearly showing on his face and said, "Dean isn't showing any signs of improvement John, I'm afraid we're going to have to use a more invasive technique to warm his body before he succumbs to the effects of his hypothermia.
TBC.
