another symptom chapter, so it's really short. hope you guys like! give me feedback!
Ruby...
Chapter Seven: Test Results
The MRI machine made a huge clanging noise, which would abruptly stop every couple of seconds then start again. Nicole tried not to stare at the laser going back and forth over her head, but honestly, who could resist. God knows there was nothing else to look at.
"You're almost done." Cameron's voice rang through the open tube.
"Good, because this really sucks." Nicole winced. She was slightly claustrophobic and just wanted to be out.
"Just stop moving." It changed to Foreman's voice.
"I'm not!" she yelled over the, now, extremely loud "whirring" noise.
Foreman questioned himself as he watched Nicole fidget inside the machine. "You're messing up the MRI. Stop moving!"
"I'm not moving!" Nicole screamed, but at the same time she couldn't scream. It seemed like there was something trapped in her throat and she gasped drastically for air. She squeezed the buzzer they gave her incase anything went wrong, then dropped it to clasp her fingers around her throat.
She was immediately pulled out of the machine. Cameron pulled out her stethoscope and listened to Nicole's chest while Foreman rushed to clear her air passage. "There's nothing there." Foreman questioned, looking down her throat.
"Heart's racing." Cameron folded up her stethoscope and placed it around her neck again. "We need to slow it down or she could have a heart attack."
"Well we can't tell her to take deep breaths." Cameron glared at Foreman. She was clearing scolding him for making jokes at such a time. "It's atrial fibrillation. And she can technically breath."
"She thinks she can't. There must be something wrong with her nervous system." Foreman now gave her the glare. Cameron glanced away from him to look at Nicole's vitals. "Foreman?"
Foreman looked over at the screen. Nicole's heart race was increasing rapidly, soon her heart would start failing.. He rushed out of the room and came back with a cart. "We'll need to give her electrical cardioversion."
"She needs Coumadin for that first!"
"Does it look like we have time for a blood thinner!" Without hesitating, Foreman grabbed the paddles and placed them on Nicole's chest. A small, electrical current was released from the paddles and sent through the valves of Nicole's heart. Foreman sent another electrical shock, hoping to slow the beating down.
Nicole, now able to breath, screamed from the immense pain. "Foreman!" Cameron yelled over Nicole. She gestured to the vital signs on the screen. Everything was back to normal. "That was stupid! You could have killed her!" Cameron continued to yell, not caring that Nicole could hear.
