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Chapter 10

In one swift movement the mangled front section of the car was removed and everyone who had a job to do jumped to it. Shannon ran the front of the where Sophie was sitting and applied pressure to the wounds on her lower abdomen. There was more blood then she could put pressure on and she yelled at Scott to hurry up. The gurney was moved closer to the car and as fast as you could blink Sophie was transported from the seat to the gurney. Jordan continued to manually ventilate, Shannon continued to apply pressure and TC, Drew and Scott pushed the gurney to the awaiting chopper.

Scott, TC and Jordan jumped in with the gurney as Shannon held Drew back as there wasn't any room left in the helicopter. "Hey hey we can't go with them, you know that. Come on I will drive you to the hospital."

The doors closed and the chopper took off lights flashing turning around heading straight for the hospital helipad.

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"Drew? Drew? Hey you still with me?" Shannon was looking at him as she sped down the highway towards San Antonio Memorial. "Drew?"

"What?!"

"Are you okay?"

"Do I look okay?!"

Shannon turned and faced the front of the car focusing intently on driving. "I didn't mean it like that. I'm sorry." There was silence for a few seconds before Drew talked again.

"No I'm sorry. I shouldn't have spoken to you like that. Thank you for being here and driving me back I don't think I would have made it back in one piece. Probably would've ended up in the cells."

Shannon gave a small smile as she squeezed Drew's leg and put her foot on the pedal.

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"How much farther?" TC yelled to the pilot.

"Another 10 minutes." The pilot replied.

"She might not even have 5 minutes" TC muttered under his breathe.

"Dammit!" Scott yelled. "She's crashing! TC the paddles!" TC followed the order and turned on the defibrillator and began cardiac compressions, as Scott stuck the defibrillator pads on Sophie's chest and Jordan continued to manually ventilate. "Charge to 300. Everyone clear!" The pulses noise still evaded the chopper as Sophie's heart refused to start. "Asystole." Scott yelled. "Charge again 360. Clear." Still nothing. "Give her 1cc of adrenaline and 6 of amioderone; charge to 360. Clear." Still nothing.

"Giver her another of adrenaline and charge it again!" TC said to Scott as he continued compressions.

"Charging. Clear." And there is was the faintest of a heart beat. TC stopped compressions as all 3 bowed their heads saying a little prayer as they had managed to bring her back. "I need to get this baby out right now, the baby's heart rate is dropping." Scott look flustered as he began prepping Sophie's stomach for the emergency Caesarian. "TC I am going to need you. Jordan can you keep ventilating please." They both nodded as Scott moved around the other side of Sophie and poured iodine over the intended incision sight. He couldn't tell what was iodine and what was blood in some parts it was too thick to make out. "Scalpel please." TC handed the scalpel to Scott as he made a 10cm incision along the bottom of Sophie's abdomen and began cut through the fatty tissue as TC stemmed the blood flow and helped Scott open the incision wider. "There is so much damage here I can't believe the baby survived this long let alone Sophie. Okay I can see the uterus. Nearly there. Okay I got her... Here she comes. TC she's blue." He said as handed the baby him.

"I got her, I got her." TC moved quickly and began to clear the baby's airway and put a stethoscope to her chest and waited to here the little flicker of her heart. "Starting compressions. Come on little girl don't give up. Come on. Come on." And just when he thought it was futile. A loud cry stopped everyone on the chopper in their tracks. "Oh thank God. We got her." TC said relieved. "Hello sweet girl. Let me have a look at you." He did the once over and looked towards Jordan who was smiling and crying at the sight of TC and the baby in his arms. "She's ok." He smiled back.

"Dammit, TC I need your help. She haemorrhaging. I stop one bleeder and then I find 3 more." TC handed the baby to Jordan as he leant on the other side of Sophie and started to help control the bleeding. "I think when we cut into her, the pressure of pulling the baby out must have started a chain reaction. There is too much blood I can't see a damn thing. How far are away now?"

"60 seconds out. But we have another problem." The pilot said.

"Of course we do." Scott said looking at TC.

"The other helicopter has broken down on the helipad so we can't land there."

"Land on the field across the road. We can wheel it the rest of the way call Molly and tell Kenny and Topher to get as many people as he can and meet us there. We need a Neonatal incubator and an OR free as soon as we arrive."

"Got it." The pilot replied.

"Why can't anything go right tonight?" A frustrated TC said.

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