She's back and better then ever.
The girls were now eight weeks old, and she was ready to get back into the swing of things, she had been cleared the day before to go back to work and the girls were adjusting to daycare. They had did a trial run the week before to see how it would all work out. They were using the divide and conquer method Tom was handling TJ and she was handling the girls. It wasn't as easy as they both though it was going to be the only good thing is that she was working from 9 to 6 they would go in at different times but would leave at the same time so he could help her with the girls. It was her first day back.
"Hey you welcome back." she said as she passed her then walking behind the nurse station and making some notations on the chart she was holding.
"Hey Bobbie thanks its good to be back."
"so how are my God daughters and my God son doing?" she ask as she grabbed the chart for the patient in exam room one.
"keeping me up all night, I get one sleep and the other one wants to wake up and TJ well you know him he's just my baby boy, no their doing great."
"and you how are you doing?"
"I'm doing good, tired but good its all taking some getting use to."
"I bet with having a two year old, and two babies, and who would have thought you of all people would have more kids, I bet its really different?
"yeah who would have thought? and it is really different sometimes when the girls and TJ are sleeping I just sit back and look at them, and think how in the last three years my life has changed."
"it has in a good way right?"
"Umm…I'm not really sure."
"what does that mean Chrissie?" she asked with a confused look on her face not really understand the statement that she just made."
"it means nothing Bobbie I'm just a little overwhelmed at times, look I better get to my office I have a lot of work to catch up on I'll see you later." she told her as she started to walk off.
"Christina?"
"Yeah Bobbie?"
"were going to finish this I know its more to it."
"I'm good." she said threw her a quick wave over her shoulder then turned the corner.
She made her way back to her office and took a seat at her desk, she started on some paperwork that Gail had left her, she spent the rest of the morning working on it as she finished up the paperwork and started on the new nursing schedule for her departments her office phone started to ring, she stopped what she was doing and picked it up. "This is Christina" she answered and the voice on the other end was telling her that she had a visitor in the main lobby, "did they give a name? she ask the receptionist. "Sorry no he didn't." she paused for a second wondering who it could be, "Ok Thank you I'll be right down," she told her as she hung up the phone, and made it to her feet.
As she stepped off the elevator and made her way over to the front desk of the lobby to ask the receptionist who was there to see her, she paused for a second and turned at the sound of her name "Christina Ranae " she smiled there was only one person in this world that she would ever allow to call her by that name, as much as she loved Tom he wasn't even allow to call her by that name, he would only do it when he was angry with her knowing that it would piss her off. "Oh my God Keith Livingston is that you?" she asked with a huge smile on her face as she walked over to him giving him the biggest hug and kiss. "Yes in the flesh?" he said hugging and kissing her back, and from a distance Erin was watching the whole display of affection that they were sharing, on her way to the ER to handle one of her patients.
Erin made it to the ER and was standing there when she saw Tom approaching the nursing station, "Hey Bobbie have you seen Christina?" he asked and Erin spoke up before Bobbie could. "I just saw her in the main lobby hugging and kissing on a very tall handsome gentleman." she said as Bobbie and Tom turned and looked at her he knew why she made the statement, Erin had turned out to be a very vindictive person and any thing she could do or say to make Christina look bad in Tom's eyes she would. But was she telling him this so that he would go running, to see who the man was or to insinuate that Christina was having some kind of affaire, and if Christina was in the Lobby hugging and kissing on some man she had a good reason to be doing it. Tom stood there for a few minutes, he did wonder who the man was but trusted in his heart and in his wife that she would tell him when she was ready, as his beeper started to go off he looked down to see who it was, that's the OR, he said as he looked back up. "hey Bobbie will tell my wife that I'm looking for her if you see her before I do." he asked her as he started to walk off, and noticed that Erin was still standing there, "I will Dr. Wakefield." she told him as she finished up the notations on the chart she was working on and then disappearing into an exam room and leaving Erin standing there.
"Christina Ranae it has been so long since the last time I saw you how have you been?" he asked "I doing good really good" she told him as they started to walked toward the elevator on their way to her office to get reacquainted, Keith was a very old childhood friend that she had known all of her life, they had grown up together in Richmond and had went to the same elementary, middle, and high school together and after graduation he went off and joined the military, as they made it to her office and they both took a seat him on the sofa and her in the chair across from it. "So tell me where have you been all this time I haven't seen you in about fifteen years?" she asked him "well mostly overseas but I'm back stateside now" he told her as they sat there for the next three hours catching up on each others lives, he told her that he had been married and devoiced twice, that he had two kids and now he was back, and living in Richmond. She told him all about Michael because he hadn't heard and that in the last three years that she had gotten married again, and had three more kids besides Camille, he was surprised every one seem to be that she had more then one, as they brought there conversation to a end and about to say their good byes, they heard a knock on the door. "come in" she called out and as the door opened Tom was standing there. "Oh hey sweetie I have someone I want you to meet," she told him as he made his way over to her, she stood up and wrapped her are around his waist, Tom this is a old friend of mine Keith Livingston, Keith this is my husband Dr. Thomas Wakefield and the love of my life she told him as she introduced them. "Its nice to meet you." he said has he shock his hand "Its nice meeting you too." he told him, "hey we should all get together and have dinner some night when were all free now that your back in town "babe are you ok with that?"
"that sounds good to me sweetheart."
"sounds good, I would love to get together for dinner I'll bring Tasha?"
"you better, you know I need to check her out to make sure she MLR." she told him and they both started to laughed.
"MLR?" He asked turning to look at her.
"yeah when we were in high school I would always have her check out the girl I was dating to see if she was (Mother Livingston Ready they both said simultaneously)
Yeah my mom always told me that i should find a girl like Christina Ranae." And Tom looked at her when he said the name.
"your mom just liked me because she thought I was so much like her at that age."
"True mom did love you, well I better get going I've taken up enough of your time I'm sure you both have work to do, but let me give you my new number." he told them, and she took out her phone to entered the number and he did the same.
"Tom it was really nice meeting you and I hope to see you soon," he told him as he shook his hand again.
"and it was nice meeting you too its always a pleasure meeting Chris's friends.
"and you young lady keep in touch, call me so we can set up a night to have dinner."
"I most definitely will." she told him as she hugged and kissed him on the cheek, let us walk you out she told him and he nodded his head yes and they all headed for the main lobby.
As they both waved goodbye to him, and Tom and Christina started to walk back into the main lobby, Tom stumbled over the question, that he had been wondering about and wanted to ask her, "so tell me how long did you guys date?" he asked and she could see the jealousy in his eyes and it kinda made her smile on the inside, as they reached the elevators, and she pushed the up button she turned and looked at him, "why Thomas Christopher Wakefield do I detect a little jealousy in your voice?" she asked with a smile, as the doors opened and they both got in. "so are you going to answer my question?" he asked her, "yes I am as soon as you answer mine?" she told him as the door opened and they both got off and made it back to her office. "Ok Chris yes, yes I'm a little jealous."
"sweetie you have nothing to be jealous of, me and Keith never dated, he was just a good friend, we went to elementary, middle, and high school together that's all, I checked out all of his girlfriends, and he checked out all of the guys that tried to talk to me, he was just like a big brother to me Tom." she told him as she took him in her arms and placed her hand on his face softly brushing it and leaning up to kissed him.
"I love you Christina Ranae."
"hey you know I don't like being called that."
"I know" and they both laughed as he kissed her again, "ok babe I better get going" he told her as he let go and turned to walk out the room.
"Hey Tom?"
"Yeah sweetheart?"
"you know I love you right?"
"yeah I do."
About a hour later.
"Hey you Tom is looking for you?"
"yeah he found me, so what's going down here?"
"Oh nothing so tell me who was the tall handsome gentleman that you were kissing and hugging on in the main lobby?" she asked with a suspicions look on her face.
"Ok how do you know about that?" she asked with a razed brow.
"Oh you can thank your good friend Dr. Jameson for that she was down her telling me and Tom how she saw you in the main lobby and how you where hugging and kissing on some man."
"Oh she was? that woman is something else, and the tall handsome gentleman that she was talking about is a childhood friend of mine that I haven't seen in about fifteen years, Tom just met him."
"so did Tom ask you the questions?'
"what questions?"
"Chrissie don't play, you know the questions I'm talking about, the ones that all men ask when they meet a old male friend from our past."
"yeah he did."
"so which one was it did you sleep with him, how long did you date him or both?"
"how long did we date," she told her and they both laughed.
"men there so predictable." she said. As they heard the EMT's come through the door and they all went running over.
(Incoming: fifty-six year old female found doubled over on the kitchen floor been having nausea, epigastric pain, vomiting and tenderness for the past 24 hours, slightly tachycardia 110, BP 100/60 and temperature 102.5 slightly jaundiced and has slight abdominal distension. NKDA, no use of medications or alcohol the EMT's called out as they rolled her into the exam room , and you heard him say on my count as they moved her on to the gurney. Steve started to examine the woman. She has diminished bowel sounds, and on palpation she's tender but has no rebound pain and does not guard her abdomen. She could be suffering from a pancreatitis secondary to gallstones. I need a serum, urinary amylase, serum lipase, glucose, I also need to get her calcium levels, he continued to look over her. I also want a WBC, bilirubin, ultrasound and a CT, he called out as Bobbie ordered the test and made some notations on the chart, Christina notified the next of kin. A few hours later all the test came back and the CT demonstrated that some pancreatic tissue did not enhance with IV contrast. Steve informed the patient what was going on and sent her up to the OR for surgical debridement.)
As the husband showed up a few minutes later asking to see his wife, Christina assured him that she was in the best of hands, and that she had just been taking up to the OR. "I can have someone take you up if you like?" she told him as she motioned to a near by orderly to show him to the OR waiting room.
As she finished up on the chart that she was working on, she made her way up to the second floor to check on a patient before heading back down to her office, she had to check the sick calls by four so that they would be covered by six for the night shift. As she finished up the sick calls she headed back down to the ER to talk to Gail about her new nursing schedule, and to remind her that nursing reviews were coming up soon and it would be a good ideal if they did them together. They both decided that they would start the reviews next week so that they would all be done on time and each of them would know the concerns of the other. As she made her way to check on a few more patients before heading back to her office to gather her things and call it a day she noticed that it had started thundering out side and she wanted to get home before it started raining, she packed up her things and headed for the ER, as she approached the nursing station she noticed Tom standing there, "hey are you ready to go?" he asked her has he started out the door and for his car, "I am, I'm just going to tell Bobbie to call me later ok." she told him "I'll just see you around there." he told her as he headed out the door and turned the corner, she was two seconds out the door behind him and making her way around to the other side of the hospital, she pulled up in the parking space next to him and made her way inside, as they brought the children's to the front of the daycare she grab one of the twin and he grab the other and took TJ by the hand, they got all the kids snuggled into their car seats and headed for home.
It was around 7:30pm when they finally pulled into the driveway, Tom got out of the car and open the front door, his focus was on getting Christina and the children in as quickly as he could before it started raining, the storm was coming and it had started to thundering and lighting, he grab TJ by the hand and made his way to Christina's car to grab one of the twins as he closed the car door she had grab the other one they made it into the house as the rain stared to fall she made it over to the sofa and took off her coat.
"come here sweet pea so mommy can help you take off your coat and shoes." she told him has he came over to the sofa where she was sitting with one twin and Tom placing the other twin on the table,
"hey babe can you hangs these up for me please?" she asked him as she took Mia out of the carrier to feed her.
"sure sweetheart do you need me to do anything else?" he asked her as he hung up there coats and took off his own.
"Umm… you can fix him something to eat and maybe order us something, I can go for some bacon cheeseburger pizza." she told him.
"I can do that and hey Chris I think we should talk about buying a new house." he told her as he grab TJ by the hand and taking him into the kitchen.
"hey what did you just say?" she yelled out to him.
"we'll talk about it later." he yelled back.
"fine then." she yelled back at him.
As she finished with breastfeeding and burping Mia. She placed her back into her carrier and took Alexis out to feed her, she grab the remote and turned on the TV after about twenty minutes, Tom came out of the kitchen with TJ in toe they both took a seat on the sofa next to her. "Hey babe will you put in one of his DVD, did you order the pizza?" she ask as she heard the sounds of hunger pains in her stomach.
"yeah it should be here in a few minutes." he told her.
"so you want to talk about this house thing?"
"we can after we put the kids to bed." he told her, then suddenly the doorbell started to ring, he got up to answer it.
"Yeah how much is it?" he asked the young man.
"That'll be $15.00 One large ½ cheese ½ bacon cheeseburger?" The delivery boy told him as he handed him the pizza.
"Thank you." he said to him as handed him a twenty and told him to keep the change, as he closed the door and made his way back over to the sofa and took a seat, he sat the pizza box on the coffee table. As she finished feeding and burping Alexis she placed her back into her carrier and grab a slice. As they sat there for another half hour watching one TJ's kid show's it was now time to put all of the Wakefield children to bed. Tom got up and took TJ by the hand, and took him into the main bathroom to give him a bath, it took him about twenty minutes to get him bathed and dressed for bed, as he took him into his room to read him his story, Christina made it to her feet and into their bathroom to give the girls a bath. As she finished up bathing both of them and getting them dressed for bed, Tom was done reading TJ his story and was headed in to help her with the twins, they both took a twin and sat on the small sofa in the girls room, as he finished the story they both placed the girls in their beds sound asleep for the time being. They both made it back to the family room and collapse on the sofa from pure exhaustion she curled up in his arms as he grab the remote and turned on sport center.
"So you ready to talk about it now?" she asked.
"well I just think its time for us to move, a bigger place would be nice"
"Ok a bigger place would be nice, but babe are you okay what aren't you telling me?" she asked getting the feeling that it was more to it then just needing a bigger place.
"yeah I'm fine."
"Tom please tell me the truth what's wrong."
"Umm…you want the truth?" he asked.
"yes babe I want the truth?" she told him as she moved from his grip just a bit to look at him.
"I just feel that we should have a house of our own"
"how long have you felt this way?"
"sense the day we got married." he told her as he pulled her back into his arms.
"Tom why didn't you ever say something? babe its been almost three years, I don't understand." she told him.
"I just didn't think you would be willing to move."
"Tom look at me." she told him as she twisted around and straddled his lap. " you are my life and if you wanted us to get a house of our own Tom all you had to do was say so, I would have been fine with that, babe all this time you were uncomfortable living here why didn't you say something."
"I didn't want to push it." he told her as he looked down and she could feel that it was more to it then just him not wanted to push a new house on her.
"I don't understand we could have talked about it, hey were you doing this because Camille was still living here?"
"I just didn't want her to think that I was trying to push her out of the house she grew up in."
"I think that Camille would have been fine, but I think this is all my fault I should have asked you how you felt about living here, I was just so content that I didn't even think about how you felt, Tom I'm sorry babe I am so sorry." she told him as she kissed him then moving slowly over to the bottom of his ear bit down gently on it.
"your right I should have said something." he told her as his hands slight stroked her bare hips and thighs and working his way up under her shirt to her waist and kissing the inside of her neck and shoulder.
"yes you should have." she whispered as she started unbutton his shirt and kissing him as she did and her breath tickling the hair on the back of his neck.
"so we can start looking for a new house?" he asked in between the soft kisses, and he moaned against her shoulder.
"Yes we can," she told him as she started to kiss his shoulder again biting it knowing that it would leave a mark. and sliding her hand down to unbutton his pants.
"Oh damn…babe are you sure your ready for this?" he asked her as he felt himself getting very aroused.
"God you're beautiful," He mumbled against her lips, pulling her into him more.
"Its been four months yes I'm sure." she told him eagerly wanting to feel ever inch of him. "are you sure you want this?" she asked him as she kissed him passionately arching her back and rocking her body forward.
"Oh God Yes, yes I want it." he told her as he pulled her shirt over her head and unlatched her bra.
She pulled back and rested her forehead against his. "Bedroom?" she told him. As he got to his feet with her still in his arms, she trusted his strength to bear her weight as he lifted her off the couch. She wrapped her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist, as he carried her into the bedroom and laid her softly on to the bed, the soft, warm touch of his hands on her body was driving her insane, her pulse was starting to race and she couldn't catch her breath. As she craved deeper contact, running her hands across his shoulders and down his chest and then under his arms and pulling him in closer to her, feeling his courage against her inner thigh, and her fingers clawing into his back as she whispered her request, the words "would you like to come in fell from her lips," he smiled and whispered back "Knock Knock" she smiled, she had some devilish ideas and before the night was over he would know each and every one of them, she shifted them into a more comfortable position, as his lips met hers again she moaned into the kiss when he rubbed against her shivering skin and her hands running down his back, and there was no stopping them, so they thought as the echoing sounds of one of their twins crying, started to come through the monitor.
"God No! this can't be happening" he cried out in a sigh as he laid his forehead over her shoulder and they both paused for a second.
"damn! sorry babe I need to see about her before they both wake up" she told him as she pushed him up making it to her feet and grabbing her rob. "I'll be right back." she told him.
"you planed this didn't you?" he told her with a half laugh.
"Yeah! I did, as if I could get them to cry or wake up on cue." she told him with a smile as she opened the door and made her way into the twins room. She spent the next hour and a half feeding, changing and trying to get both of them back to sleep. She made her way back into the bedroom put on her PJ's and climbed into bed, she was exhausted and all she wanted now was to sleep.
"so can we pick up were we left off?" he whispered as he rolled over wrapping his arms around her waist.
"As tempting as that sounds, but babe I'm exhausted, I promise to make it up to you." she told him slightly looking over her shoulder.
"ok babe just get some sleep." he told her as he rolled onto his back, and she could hear the disappointment in his voice.
As the night turned into morning, and the alarm clock started to go off it was now 5a.m. and time for Tom to get up, he rolled over and wrapped his arms around a still sleeping Christina giving her a very passionate kiss on the neck hoping that she would respond and maybe they could finish what they had started last night, but she didn't move so he rolled back over and got out of bed and made his way into the bathroom to shower, shave and get himself ready for the day. He finished his shower and made his way over to the sink to shave, when he heard a light tap and turned as he saw the door open "Good morning" she said as she took a step in bathroom and closing the door behind her, making her way over to him and wrapping her arms around his waist and laying her face against his back, "Good morning sunshine" he told her as he looked over his shoulder and down at her. "I'm really sorry about last night." she told him as she started to kissed his bare back and up to his shoulder blades, "Its not your fault sweetheart," he told her as he turned around to face her wrapping one arm around her waist and the other one gently around the base of her head caressing it softly, "what are you doing up?" he asked her as he leaned down and kissed her passionately, their tongues teased and caressing each other, "just am, you know your going to be late if we keep this up," she told him as she broke the kiss just for a second. "I'll take that chance" he told her as he started kissing her neck and down to her shoulders walking her backwards trapping her between him and the wall, he lifted her off her feet as she wrapped her legs around his waist knocking off the towel that was wrapped around him, she could feel every inch of his passion for her as she wrapping her arms around his neck, "God I want you" she whispered in his ear as they ridded her of her night shirt, and now they were bare skin to bare skin she was kissing his neck and biting his lower ear and working her way to his mouth, "maybe we should take this to the bed" he told her and she nodded her head in agreement and before they could they both heard TJ crying, as the sound got closer to the bedroom door she leaned her head back against the wall and sighed, his went forward straight into the wall "Damnit not again," he cried out "and you wanted to leave our opinions open?" she told him as he eased her down to the floor and he picked up the towel wrapping it back around him, and handing her her gown, she put it back on and walked over to the door, "sorry babe I got him you finish getting ready" she told him as she opened it and saw TJ standing there, his eyes filled with tears, "come on sweet pea mommy's going to take care of you," she told him as she picked him up and they headed for his room.
He stood there for a few minutes just looking into the mirror remembering what Paul had told him years ago about sleepless nights, screaming kids, twenty pounds in the guts, and sex in the shower alone, he just smiled at the thought it was all coming true. He finished getting himself ready and made his way into the family room where Christina was putting on TJ's shoes she had gotten him dressed, feed and he was all most ready to walk out the door with Tom, she got up and walked him over to the door and put on his coat as they both started to walk out he turned and gave her a kiss, "hey Tom we will find some time to be together I promise." she told him as she kiss and hugged him back, "I know we will sweetheart" he told her as he took TJ by the hand and headed for the car. She closed the door, and made her way into the kitchen she had decided to have a little breakfast and pack the twins bag, take a shower and get herself ready before the girls woke up. Its was now 7:50a.m. and time to get the girls ready so she headed to their room, she had to get them up and ready within the next thirty minutes and out the door or she was going to be late on her second day back, she finished getting them ready coats and all and headed for the door, she grab her bag the diaper bag and her keys she walked to the car, snapping their carriers into the car seat bases, and then went back and locked the door and headed for the daycare. As she pulled into the daycare parking lot she only had a few minutes to get the girls inside and make her way around to the other side of the hospital as she took the girls out of the car her phone started to beep, it was a text from Tom, she dropped the girls off and headed around to the other side of the hospital as she walked through the doors of the ER she started to read the text. "hey sweetheart just checking to see if u were on time, Oh and if u want to have lunch let me know love u." As she sent a text back to him "just walked in, would love to have lunch, love you too" she was stopped by Gail.
"Good morning Christina welcome back, we have a committee meeting at 11:30 I sent you a memo."
"Good morning Gail thank you, I didn't get it, and thank you for telling me." she told her as she took out her phone to send Tom, a text telling him that lunch was off that she had a committee meeting, at 11:30 and probably wouldn't make it out in time.
"hey you Good morning, how is it going?" she asked her as she stepped behind the nursing station, and started to make some notations on the patient chart she just finished with.
"Good morning Bobbie I'm good,
"so how is it going on the home front, I saw Tom this morning he seemed a little distracted"
"yeah that's my fault, I kinda got him a little worked up this morning." she told her as they started to walk down the hallway headed for her office.
"yeah that's something you seem to do well is work him up"
"Oh like he doesn't do his fair share of working me up," she told her as she rolled her eyes and they both laughed.
"so what did you do to get him all worked up about?"
"you don't even want to know." she told her as they turned the corner and came up on her office, she unlocked the door, and they both walked in and took a seat, "its not what you think, we weren't fighting or anything it was more of a….., how can I say it pleasurable work up but it kinda got cut short with crying kids."
"now Christina, you know you can't work a man up that early in the morning and not close the deal, and expect him to be able to think straight." she told her and they both started laughing.
"yeah I know it now it just kind of happened, its not like I plan it we just need to find some time to be together that's all"
"you guys will work it out, and if you need me to watch the kids you know I will,"
"Thanks' Bobbie, I know you would, but you don't have to, it was nice that you offered but I couldn't, it was fine when it was just TJ, but there is no way I would send all three of them, they would drive you insane, I wouldn't want to test our friendship like that, this is something me and Tom really need to work out where not going to always have some one to take them just so we can have some time together."
"well if you change your mind just let me know."
"Thanks Bobbie what would I do if I didn't have a friend like you."
"probable go nuts, you know that I talk you off the ledge,"
"that's so true and do it quite often"
"well we both better try and get some work done, so I guess I will see you later. Chrissie don't worry things will work out talk to you later." she told her as she got up and headed for the door.
She sat there for a few minutes, before turning on her computer and starting on some reports that were due by the end of the week. The morning was going by slowly and a bit monotonously for her, she preferred working on the floors then stuck in her office doing reports and paperwork. As she finished one of the four reports that she had to do, the office phone started to ring she took one hand from the keyboard to answer it, "this is Christina" she said into the receiver, and the voice on the other end was Gail telling her that it was time to head for the meeting. "Thank you for reminding me, I had totally forgot all about it I'm on my way" she told her and hung up the phone. As she made it to her feet and grab her planner and headed for the door, she walked down the hall she ran into Gail and they walked to the meeting together.
Meanwhile.
Tom was sitting in his office going over some paperwork and reports that were sitting before him on the desk as Dr. Marshall knocked on his door.
"Hey Tom, how are you doing you seem a little out of it today?" she told him as she took a step into his office and took a seat across from his desk.
"I'm good thanks, just a little tired that's all Brenda."
"I bet with a toddler and two babies at home, I haven't seen Christina since she's been back how is she doing?"
"she doing ok, just as tired as me I suppose. But you know Christina she not going to show it if she is, she'll just keep going no matter what."
"yeah that's our Christina,"
"so what did you need Brenda?"
"Oh Umm…I just wanted to see if you would look over this patient mammogram and give me your opinion on it." she told him has she handed it over to him.
"Sure thing." he told her as he turned and got up to put the film on screen.
as she started to tell him a little of the patient history," It's a 58 year old woman, she came in few hours ago complaining of rib and back pain, she said that she had a trip and fall accident. She was concerned that she may have broken something. On the physical exam, I noticed some rib tenderness, but I also found a palpable mass in her right breast. The patient told me that she doesn't perform monthly self exams and has not had a checkup in several years. So I order a mammogram, rib films, and a spine films. I just got back the mammogram and I would like you to go over it. Its showing a large mass in her right breast, and the bone films are showing multiple osseous lesions."
"yeah it is quite large but to really know for sure I think we should do a biopsy, can you get her admitted and we can get her on the OR schedule for the morning but I'm pretty sure its cancer." he told her as he took the film down and handed it back to her. "And once she get settled in I'll take a trip up and explain everything to her."
"Thanks Tom." she told him as she took the film back and got to her feet. "I'll talk to you later." she told him as the headed for the door.
"Your welcome, and I will keep you informed."
She made her way back to the ER to have the patient admitted.
"Nurse Jackson can you admit the patient in room five, were putting her on the OR schedule for a biopsy in the morning, and can your contact the next of kin. Thank you."
"sure thing Dr. Marshall." she told her as the EMT's came in.
(incoming: 82 year old male unconscious after a fall from a lift assist device. Went into cardiac arrest. Was revived at the scene to a normal sinus rhythm using ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) with a systolic blood pressure of 90 mm. still unconscious, spin was fully immobilized in transport, he called out as they rushed him into the trauma room, on my count Dr. Marshall called out let's get him on a Cardiac monitor I need a Hg. X-ray, CT and a MRI image 'STAT' after a few hours the images came back and it showed that the C1 and C2 had fractures with spinal cord injury, resulting in quadriplegia. The T2-T4 spinous processes and several left ribs are also fractured. Once he was stabled, he was sent up to the CCU.)
Half hour later.
As she walked into the waiting room to call the next patient, "Tammy Reynolds" Bobbie called out and the woman raised her hand she was doubled over in pain. "can you walk" she asked her and the woman shook her head no "we need a wheelchair in here please" she told them as they got her into it, and then into exam room two, and on to the gurney Bobbie started to ask the woman some questions.
"Mrs. Reynolds what seems to be the problem?"
"I have been having abdominal pains, nausea and vomiting, severe constipation, dizziness and fever for the past two days."
"ok I need to get your vitals" she told her as Dr. Shaw walked in,.
"Mrs. Reynolds this is Dr. Shaw her BP is 75/40 HR 130 and her temperature is 102.
" just so you know I had a appendectomy a few years back."
"She's complaining of abdominal pains, nausea and vomiting, severe constipation, dizziness and fever for the past two days.
"Mrs. Reynolds can you lay back for me I just want to examine your abdomen" he asked her as she did her best to lay on her back. "Her abdomen is distended, and auscultation reveals intermittent high-pitched bowel sounds." On light palpation, peritoneal irritation is demonstrated by the presence of involuntary guarding and rebound tenderness.
"Bobbie can we get a CBC (complete blood count) an abdominal X-ray on her please?" he told her.
"Yes Dr. Shaw" she told him as turned and made her way back to the nurses station to put in the order.
"Hey you where have you been all day?" she asked her as Christina approached the nursing station.
" Committee meeting didn't know it was going to last just about all day, so how is it going down here?"
"Its been really busy down here for us."
"I just stopped by to see how thing's were going I really need to finish those reports, so I can get out of that cave I call my office." she told her and they both laughed."
"where is Gail wasn't she in the meeting with you?"
"yeah I think she went to grab something to eat, she should be back soon, hey Bobbie I'll talk to you later."
"ok Chrissie." she told her as she finished putting in the doctors orders.
As she made it back to her office and started on the second report she knew that it would take her maybe a hour or two to finish it and the day was half gone, after about a hour into the report she heard a knock on the door "come in" she called out without looking a way from the computer screen. "what can I do you for sweetie" she asked him finally looking away from the computer to see Tom standing there with a container of food and a strawberry milkshake. "Well I could go for a kiss, and I brought you something to eat." he told her as he made his way over to her desk and placing the food and the shake down in front of her and stealing a kiss in the process. "Thank you sweetie." she told him as she kissed him back. "so what are you working on sweetheart?" asking hoping its not that important that she wouldn't stop to eat something. "just a few reports that need to be in by the end of the week that's all, and before you say it, yes I will stop and eat something." she said as she looked up at him with a smile. "you think you know me so will?" he smiled back "I do that's why I married you." she told him, "and here I thought you married me because of my good looks and charms?" he laughed "Oh I did, and the fact that you're a doctor, you know that that's ever little girls dream is to marry a doctor." and they both started to laugh as she opened the container of food to see what he had bring her, and took a drink of her shake. "you know your completely crazy?" he told her "and that's why you married me." she told him as she grab his tie and pulled him in for a deep kiss.
"Mmm….you taste good, I think I need more of that" he told her as he went in for another one this time it was longer, deeper and more passionate then the first one and she moan out.
"Whoa! hey you slow down."
"God Chris I need you"
"I need you to babe but were at work and its not like my office has a lot of privacy" she told him "and you know that you make to much noise!."
"me that's you, you're the noisy one" he told her and they both started to laugh. "babe I promise we will find some time to be with each other."
"I know Chris, well I better let you eat and finish that report." he told her stealing another kiss then turning and heading for the door.
"Tom?"
"Yes Christina?"
"I love you"
"I love you too sweetheart." he told her as he walk out of the room.