Chapter 14- surgery
So everybody, this is shorter then my other chapters, and I'm sorry about that. I hope you all enjoy and don't forget to review! Also, I'm not a medical doctor or a doctor of any kind for that matter, so I don't know how accurate the medical stuff is.
Two months later- October 26th 2010
"I have great news Dr Grey," Dr smith says as she walks into Lexie's hospital room. Lexie had now finished her 6 treatments of MM and was feeling great. She had stayed in hospital for the past four months while receiving Chemo due to the chemo weakening her immune system.
"Has my body kicked butt!?" Lexie asks.
Dr Smith laughs, "yes, your body has kicked butt," she says, "The cancer has responded well. You have no more Cancer cells in your body," Dr smith says happily.
Lexie has a wide smile come across her face and begins to cry happily, "we did it," she smiles as she looks over at Mark. She was so happy that her fight was coming to an end, she couldn't wait to resume her normal life and get back to caring for her two wonderful children who had been growing up so so fast. Sydney had just started to begin to eat solid food and she had started to crawl a little bit.
"We did it," he repeats and he gives her a kiss. She kisses him back.
"Thank you Dr Smith, thank you for giving me my life back," Lexie says.
"Just doing my job," she replies.
"Now we can start to plan the wedding, I was thinking maybe in early 2011 like February? Or maybe even March, it just depends on how fast you think we can plan a wedding," Lexie says getting carried away.
"Wow Lexie, slow down a minute, our works not done just yet," Mark says.
"Mark's right, we need to look at the double mastectomy and the removal of the lymph Nodes from your armpit. We're going to get that done today, so I'm going to call plastics for a consult," Dr Smith says.
"I am plastics. Without me there would not be plastics" Mark says.
"You are family. You can't preform this surgery and you know that. I'm getting Avery, he's a fourth year and I know he's part of your plastics Posse," Dr Smith says.
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"Good news Lexie, Dr Smith and I both agree that we can preform the double mastectomy and give you a immediate Breast reconstruction. There's no reason to wait until after the Radiotherapy," Avery says as he gives the consult to Lexie and Mark.
Mark looks at the scans, "good call Avery," he says praising his student.
"Thank you Dr Sloan," Avery says back.
"So you'll restore my current Breast shape and size?" Lexie asks wanting to be clear.
"If that's your wish then yes," Jackson says.
"Yes, that's my wish," Lexie says.
"Great. So I'll schedule the surgery for 4pm this afternoon. I'll return with the consent forms and to run over the risks and possible complications from the surgery. And of course Dr Smith will be scrubbing in with me," Jackson States.
"Great," Lexie smiles.
Early the next day 27th of October 2010
"I feel so sore," Lexie says as she lies in her hospital bed after receiving her surgery. Her surgery took 6 hours and the surgery had been completed by 10pm the night before. Lexie had been awake for a few hours.
"Have they not been giving you pain medications?" Mark asks.
"Oh yeah, they have, I'm just a wimp," Lexie replies.
"I talked to Avery and Dr Smith when you were in recovery, they said it all went very well. You'll be required to stay for the next few nights and they'll start your Radiotherapy next week or two. You be sore and swollen for the next few weeks but it will go down and in 6-8 weeks you'll be feeling as good as new. And babe, as your fiancé I'll take care of all the post op care to the incision sight," Mark says.
"How are the kids?" Lexie asks.
"Meredith offered to take them home with Zola and she said she'd drop Layla off to school on her way in," Mark says.
"That's good," Lexie says.
"Your dad also said he's dropping by to see you tomorrow. Now I want you to close your eyes and get some rest. You've just had major surgery, you need to let your body recover," Mark says, "and I'm gonna stroke your hair, because I know that that's what you like to have done," Mark says.
"Thank you," Lexie replies.
Mark smiles and strokes her hair until she falls asleep. When she's asleep he leaves the room to go and thank Dr Smith and Avery once more. He couldn't believe that this fight was coming to an end. He was glad that they could finally move on with their life and start to plan for the future, wedding and babies. When he finished talking to them he returned to Lexie's room to see that she was still sleeping peacefully and so he laid down on the lounge and fell asleep.