Lover's Spit – Chapter IX
Chase picked up a tray from the cashier and walked through the lunch area to the table where all the interns were sitting with Foreman and Cameron.
"Hey." He said, moving next to Izzie and pecking her on the cheek as he sat down.
"Give us a break." Christina groaned as she sank in her chair.
"Don't worry about her." Izzie reassured Chase. "She's just all dark and twisty most of the time."
"That's one way to put it." She mumbled, crossing her arms.
"So how's the boyfriend?" Meredith tried to change the conversation.
"He's still a bit shocked about nearly killing his girlfriend but I put him on he meds so he'll be ok in a while." Chase methodically added sugar to his coffee, stirred it for a second then started to bite the spoon.
"What about the girl?" Alex looked up from his salad.
"She's stable. Hopefully the meds will help her wake up."
There was a respectful silence as they all ate their lunch.
"You guys wanna go for a drink tonight? Celebrate curing our third patient together?" George piped up.
"Second." Meredith mumbled.
"What?"
"It's our second patient cured. The first one… the first one we couldn't help him." Meredith played with her salad.
"Well that set a delightful tone to the afternoon." Izzie scoffed sarcastically. "I'll go George."
"We'll all go." Chase corrected.
Suddenly the table erupted with the sound of beeping. Everyone groaned simultaneously and looked at their pagers.
"It's probably House. Wants us to watch him humiliate a patient." Foreman whined.
"Probably." Meredith pulled herself out of her chair. "We better go."
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Meredith wandered down the hall with the group as they leisurely made their way to room 2435. Looking around into the rooms and at the others she gazed down the hallway where a nurse frantically rushed into a room. Curious, Meredith walked a bit quicker and looked at the activity in the hallway.
Another nurse ran out of the room and picked up the phone, talking quickly. She looked over as two nurses ran the crash cart down the hallway into the room.
Suddenly it hit her. She began to walk quickly down the hall then broke into run, with the group behind her staring curiously then following inquisitively. Coming up to the door she barely needed to glance at the room number.
Room 2435.
On the bed in the centre of the room was Frank, struggling to breathe. The nurses around him tyring to get out the tracheal tube out while checking his stats and getting read outs. They all looked up in surprise at the 8 doctors that suddenly entered the room.
"What happened?" Foreman moved in front of Meredith.
"I don't know, he just stopped breathing." The nurse said nervously.
Cameron moved over to the bed and opened up his mouth, staring down his throat.
"It's not a problem with his airways." She said as she brought out her stethoscope and moved Frank forward and brought the diaphragm to his back and listened.
"He has pulmonary edema." She said quickly, dropping Frank back onto is back and putting down her stethoscope.
Christina quickly started to go through the draws in the room. Pulling out a big needle she handed it to Cameron as George began to turn Frank over to his side, still not able to breathe.
Cameron swabbed his back clean then brought the needle to his back, just near to the spine. Puncturing the skin she heard Frank give a muffled shriek of pain as he pit down onto his pillow. Cameron pushed in hesitantly then stoped. Nervously she began to pull out the plunger. The needle started to fill up with liquid. Sighing, Cameron heard Frank start to breathe easier.
"How could African Sleeping Sickness cause pulmonary edema?" Izzie looked on, perplexed.
"It didn't." Alex pulled out the read-outs. "Look at his creatinine levels. His kidney is failing. He doesn't have Sleeping Sickness."
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NB: BA BA BA!!! Yes, so they were wrong! Bet you didn't expect that, ha ha ha! (in haughty French accent.) But yes, trying to follow the usual plot line of House we all love, which is get a diagnosis, screw it up, get another one, patient gets sicker, then finally find the real diagnosis right at then end! But then again, I'm actually not following that line when I think about it.
Anywho, that was a relatively short chapter but I'll get on to the next one soon so if you want it up quicker, review!! Cause that gets me all excited and inspired, which is good news for everyone. So, inspire me.
