Chapter 200
*The long awaited one is here – I hope it will meet all of you guys' expectations. Enjoy the read*
Without thinking twice Theresa got up and helped Alex into a standing position, making both of them worry even more because now it seemed as if she was losing even more blood.
"Phoebe, come on love, we have to go." Theresa called her grandchild and waited for the toddler to reach them before they left. Instructing her to take her pink back pack and her mother's handbag while they walked towards the car, slowly but surely one step at a time with Alex clutching her stomach.
"Mama, owie." Phoebe said when she noticed something wrong and pointed towards her mother, who didn't really have any energy to answer her daughter at the moment.
"Yeah, but we'll get mama to the hospital quickly and then she will be okay again." Theresa soothed Phoebe as she helped Alex into the car.
Once it seemed like everyone was comfortable, well as comfortable as can get when she glanced at her daughter in law in the back seat, she drove the all too familiar route towards the hospital keeping an eye on Alex in the rear view mirror from time to time to make sure that she is still responding.
"Alex, hey you're gonna be fine. We'll be at the hospital soon." Theresa said when it looked like she was about to loose consciousness.
"Ryan." Alex breathed laying her head back against the seat.
"I'll call him as soon as we get there. Just hold on for me please okay?" Theresa asked blowing her horn in frustration at the truck who drove in front of her, but flashing her lights seemed to be working because the truck finally moved out of the way and she breathed a sigh of relief when the hospital came into view.
"Naaannnaaaa." Phoebe cried when it seemed like her grandmother forgot about her when she rushed out of the car to get a nurse and a wheelchair so someone can help Alex. "Hey bub…it's okay. Nana will be here now." Alex tried to calm her daughter in between deep breathes as she tries to keep herself from stressing even more although she wasn't sure she was doing a good job. Once the nurses came out with the wheelchair and helped Alex, Theresa got Phoebe and walked towards the waiting area where she called her son to let him know about what is going on, before she asks the doctor about an update.
Ryan and Luca ended up going hiking and they were halfway when his phone rang, surprised that he actually got signal up there although it was very weak, but the fact that it was his mother made his heart pound even more. "Mom?" he breathed, admitting that he wasn't as fit as he used to be because Luca showed no signs of tiredness at this moment.
"Alex is in hospital. Wherever you are I need you to get here now." Theresa said not even sure how much he heard of the sentence because it kept sounding as if they lost signal.
"Why? Did something happen?" Ryan asked but he never got a response as the last few bars of signal he had went away and he just starred at his phone. Luca sat in the shade if a vey slim tree looking back at his brother in law, waiting for him to meet up before they continued hiking together to the top.
"Uhm, Alex is in hospital. That's all my mom said. I think we should abort this mission." Ryan said looking at Luca's face. He seemed a bit disappointed as they were really on a roll when it came to this hike and were looking forward to spending some time together, but Alex was of more importance right now.
"Race you to the bottom." Luca said as they sprinted down the pathway towards the car. Breath racing they got into the car and drove off towards the hospital.
At the hospital Theresa tried everything she could to keep Phoebe entertained but there was only so much you could do when you have a toddler in a hospital. She didn't want to call Sita just yet, and decided to call once she has an update on what to expect and what is wrong. The doctor arrived and spoke to her. "Hi ma'am we're looking for Mrs. Booth's next of kin, Ryan?" The doctor asked and Sita nodded.
"It's my son, he's on his way. Is there any news about what is happening to her and the baby?" Theresa asked and the doctor shook his head.
"I'm sorry ma'am but I cannot share that kind of information with you. But Mrs. Booth is our first priority at the moment." He said and turned away. Ryan drove down the streets in record time, having Luca hold onto his seatbelt the way he took turns and dead breaking on the spot, but somehow managing to skim through red lights, ignoring the traffic rules at the moment. He pulled up to hospital not bothered by his horrible parking or even switching the car off, he just got out and went inside, but wordlessly Luca knew he had to correct his brother in law's parking and take the keys to him. Ryan met up with his mother in the waiting room and she just told him the minimum about how she started bleeding and how the doctor told her that saving Alex was the first thing on their list right now. He walked up to the counter and found her room number rushing over to see how his wife was doing.
Alex laid in the bed, looking pale, her face damp and her breathing heavy. The amount of blood he saw on her clothes made him worry, and he looked at the monitors that beeped and the wires that were on her stomach. "Sir you cannot be in here." A doctor said when she saw him stagnant in the doorway. "She's my wife." Ryan said softly. "Wh..what's going on. Is she gonna be okay? Will the baby be okay?" He asked glancing over at her and then at the doctor for answers.
" Her placenta as torn away from the uterine wall, its called placenta abrupta. With the placenta in such distress the life support for the fetus is in distress." The doctor explained and Ryan wasn't sure if he was still listening to what was being said or if the whole world just started moving slowly. "We'll be taking her into surgery soon." He said and Ryan nodded walking over to his wife's side, although it looked like she was falling in and out of consciousness.
"Your wife is approaching clinical shock." The nurse said when Alex started shivering and her lips turned a slight shade of blue making Ryan's heart skip a few beats as he is beginning to expect the worst. He was scared and he was just hoping it didn't show on his face as well.
"Hey." Ryan said squeezing her hand and brushing a few strands of hairs back on her face. She opened her eyes briefly and looked at him with tired eyes.
"I'm scared." She admitted in a soft voice and watery eyes, he couldn't bring himself to say anything so he just nodded and kissed the back of her hand. "Whatever happens, and if it comes to m..me or the ba..by you save our child, okay?" She asked and Ryan shook his head.
"No, no don't say that. I need you to fight." He admitted but she shook her head, and before they could continue their conversation the doctors came to get her and rolled her into surgery. Leaving him standing in the empty hospital room, before an anesthesiologist pulled him aside and spoke to him. "You can come inside with us, but you're gonna have to keep her calm. She's approaching clinical shock, and we can treat her when it happens but it won't be easy and the baby might not make it when she goes into shock." He said and looked at Ryan to see if he understood how serious he was being right now. "We need you to keep her calm and keep her here with us, as it will be too much of a risk to put her to sleep so she'll be awake for the remainder of the surgery she'll just be numbed from the waist down." He explained as he led Ryan into the operating room both of them dressed in some weird blue attire, and he takes a seat next to his wife as he takes her shaking hand in his.
They began the C-Section and Ryan held her hand as tightly as he could while he decided to explain everything that he saw what was happening, because he could see what was happening although she couldn't. He calmly explained everything that was happening in detail but trying to keep reassuring her that everything was okay. Her lips were blue and she was shaking but he kept a hold of her hand squeezing it gently, while Alex tried desperately to remain present in the moment. Her eyes felt heavy and she just wanted to close them for a little while but Ryan wouldn't let her. "Hey, hey stay with me you can't close your eyes now." He tried and she looked up at him.
"I'm t..ired." She said trying to keep her eyes open.
There were a rush of doctors and nurses who came around and started working faster, as they heard the equipment being put down and a doctor yelling at a nurse in frustration. "I see a baby." Ryan said when their son was born and Alex looked at him, and through tears she managed to ask the hardest question.
"W..hy isn't he crying?"
And even at that moment Ryan didn't have an answer for his wife although he was hoping his son will let out a wail that will out all if them at ease.
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