Chapter 14
Abbey woke from a short nap. She smiled as she realized Jed was sitting next to the bed, staring at her. "Hi," she whispered.
"Hi, yourself. How do you feel?"
"Strange."
He quickly got up from his chair and walked over to her. "What's wrong?"
"I don't know. I feel lightheaded. Maybe you should get somebody. I just feel really…." Abbey's eyes suddenly rolled to the back of her head as she lost consciousness.
"Abbey! Abbey!"
Unable to wake her, Jed ran to the door. "Help! Something's wrong with my wife!"
The nurse at the desk looked up to see a very frightened husband screaming for help. He wasn't the President then. He was terrified. Running into the room, she checked Abbey's pulse, and then quickly threw back the sheet to see blood everywhere.
The nurse picked up the phone and paged Dr. Cox stat.
Jed saw the blood all over Abbey and the bed. "Oh my God! What's going on?"
The nurse had a higher priority than to answer him. She quickly took Abbey's blood pressure and kept checking her pulse. She increased the flow of Abbey's IV.
Dr. Cox ran into the room and did her own checks. "Notify ICU we're coming. I need for you to call my partner stat and get him over here." The nurse nodded and went to carry out the instructions.
Kim saw how frightened the President was. The news she had for him was not going to put him at ease.
"Mr. President, I think your wife is having an episode of DIC. That is …"
"I know already. Dr. Griffith explained it me yesterday. Is she going to live?"
"I don't know, sir. I will do everything I can to save her."
As she was finishing her quick statement, two orderlies ran into the room and raced Abbey's bed out of the room.
No chance to say goodbye.
Jed could only hope he would see her again.
Alive.