Chapter 26: Wilson's Patient!
Life was returning to normal, both at home and at the hospital. House had started a new pain management program that was a lot safer on his body and had even started going to physical therapy.
It had been four days since House had returned and the team had not seen one case which would have been suitable for them to work on.
Cuddy walked into the diagnostic conference room with a file in hand. "Night sweats, extreme weight loss and a fever of 105." She said handing the file out to House.
"The flu, boring."
"Not for three two months straight."
"Resistance flu virus, less boring but still boring."
Cameron took the file and read over it. "It could be lymphoma. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma presents with fever and night sweats most of the time."
"In which case it is not my case. Take it to Wilson." House nodded to Chase who took the file and looked through it. Cuddy was happy with the fact that they were at least looking at the file and left the room.
"This is a pretty solid case of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma." Chase stated.
"Then take it to Wilson." House went into his office. The new meds were not as strong as his old ones and he was in a great deal of pain and didn't want to be standing any longer so he went in and sat at his desk with a grimed expression on his face.
Chase walked over to Wilson's office door and softly knocked on it.
"Come in." Wilson stated.
"Doctor Wilson," Chase walked in with the file in hand. "We need a consult on Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma."
"Alright." Wilson got up and read over the file. Once he finished the two of them walked to the patient's room.
"Hello, my name is Dr. Chase and this is Dr. Wilson." Chase said when he walked into the room. The patient was sitting up in the bed he was the only on in the room but it was clear someone else had been there. A woman's jacket was resting on the back of chair that had been pulled closer to the bed.
"We are going to need to run a few test, but we believe you might have what is called Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma." Wilson told him.
"What's that?" The man questioned.
"It is a form of cancer that attacks the lymphatic system. The Lymphatic system is what keeps up your immune system. We are going to need to run a few blood test and I will get you scheduled for…"
A woman walked into the room. "Excuse me what is going on here?" She questioned appalled.
Dr. Wilson and Dr. Chase turned around to look at the women.
"This is my wife." The patient said.
"We are going to need to run a few test on your husband," Chase said.
"You need to what?"
"We need to test for…." Chase began again. Wilson was staring at the ground.
"That… man… is NOT going near my husband." She screeched at Wilson. "What the hell are you doing in his room?"
Wilson knew he had to look past the fact that this woman has been a pain in his side for a while now. "We are going to be testing your husband for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma."
"You're his doctor?" she questioned.
"If it turns out it is cancer, dr. Wilson will be taking the case over." Chase said pointing to Wilson. "He is the head of Oncology. You could not be in better hands."
"I don't want his hands anywhere near my husband."
The woman was glaring and not really paying attention to what the doctors were saying.
"Susan, leave the man alone." The patient said.
"He's gay." She glared.
"He's a doctor."
"And that excuses the fact that his completely messed up child hit our daughter?"
Wilson couldn't take this any more. "I'm sorry you don't like my family, but we are talking about yours. We are going to be testing your husband for cancer. Do you understand that much? And if it comes back positive then I can refer you to someone else if not Dr. House's team will once again take this case."
Susan finally seemed to understand what she was being told. "Thank you." She said as Wilson headed for the door.
"Dr. Chase draw up some blood and bring it to me in the lab." Wilson said as he closed the door.