Chapter 18
Sully, Ty and Jimmy all converged on Kim's room to find her crying and upset.
"Kimmy, what's going on?" asked Jimmy soothingly, as he arrived at her side.
Kim shrugged her shoulders indicating that she didn't know what was happening. She began furiously writing broken sentences on her board. "Bosco - surgery last night. Doc checking, then Code Blue in ICU. Faith went. That's all I know," she finished, holding the board up for the three to see.
"Shit," said Sully as he and Davis left to head upstairs. Sully called over his shoulder, "We'll send word back to you ASAP."
Jimmy stayed with Kim, trying to get her calmed down, hoping that Bosco was okay.
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Faith had made it as far as the nurse's station in the wheelchair when her nurse stopped her. "Officer Yokas! Where do you think you're going?!"
Faith pushed the nurse's hand off the wheelchair and started turning the wheels again. "I'm going to the ICU. I just know that the Code was for Bosco," she answered, finally making it to the elevator and pushing the button. The nurse remembered the story about Faith and her partner in the Emergency Room when they had arrived. She had seen it happen before and she wasn't about to keep Faith from her partner this time - if indeed it was him in trouble upstairs.
The nurse called over to one of her co-workers, "Amy, I'm taking Officer Yokas up to ICU. Keep an eye on my patients. I'll be back as soon as I can." The young nurse nodded and Faith and her nurse got on the elevator and headed to the ICU.
The elevator doors opened onto the unit and the nurse pushed Faith down the hall where she saw Sully and Davis standing in the hallway, their attention on what was going on in the room. "Sully!" Faith called to him. Ty and Sully looked in the direction of her voice and saw the look of fear on Faith.
Sully walked quickly toward her, "Faith. It's Bosco. They're working on him. Doc's in there and so is Dr. Jamison from the ER."
"What the hell happened Sully?!" she asked with confusion. "I don't know Faith. Let's just get him back and then we'll find out," he answered, taking her from the nurse and pushing her the rest of the way down the hall.
"Get him back? What do you mean 'get him back'?" she asked insistently, sitting forward in the wheelchair so she could see into the room.
"Oh my God!" she gasped as she saw the staff doing CPR and Doc ventilating Bosco. "Davis, look out. Let me in there," she ordered pushing Ty out of the way and wheeling herself into the room. A nurse tried to prevent her from entering, but Dr. Jamison yelled over to let her in. He too had seen what affect she'd had on Bosco in the ER.
"Bosco! I'm here. You need to come back. You need to fight back. Do you hear me?" she yelled to him, tears streaming down her face. She reached out and grabbed onto his hand, "Please, Bosco. Don't leave me."
Davis couldn't help but notice the other patient in Bosco's room. He almost seemed to be smiling at Bosco's plight. His bed had been shoved over to make room for the personnel and equipment that was being used to keep Bosco alive, but no one noticed the spent syringe that fell from the underside of the bed when it was moved.
Suddenly, the room was silenced with six words, "Hold CPR. We have a rhythm," stated Dr. Jamison. Doc kept ventilating Bosco and everyone watched the monitor as the rhythm improved very slowly until he was again in normal sinus rhythm. He began spontaneous respirations on his own and Doc removed the ambu bag and replaced it with a simple face mask providing pure oxygen for him.
"Bosco," came a quiet voice. It was Faith. "Bosco, can you hear me?" she asked, holding tightly to his hand. Dr. Jamison leaned over and moved a couple of pieces of equipment out of the way so that Faith could get closer. "Bosco, please open your eyes," she pleaded. He did not. He remained unconscious.
After a short time more, it was decided that Bosco had been stabilized. The Code Team had dispersed, leaving only Dr. Jamison, the ICU staff and Bosco's fellow co-workers behind. All but Dr. Jamison and Faith returned to the hallway to wait. One of the nurse's was getting a very irritated Crisafulli settled, moving his bed back where it belonged and cleaning up the discarded medical supply wrappers that had been dropped on the floor during the Code. The innocent-looking syringe remained behind, the nurse not seen over by the wall where Crisafulli's bed had been pushed.
"Okay, Mr. Crisafulli. Hopefully that's all the excitement for the night. We'll have to keep quite a close watch on Officer Boscorelli for a little while, which means that we'll be in and out constantly. So, we're going to move him into another room so we won't disturb you," she explained as she checked his IV and rearranged his blankets.
Davis was looking through the glass at Bosco, when something made him look over to the other patient in the room. "What is it with that guy?" thought Davis aloud. "What guy?" asked Doc, looking from Ty into the room as he took the glass of water and pain medication that Dr. Jamison had ordered for him for his shoulder from the nurse.
"That guy in the room with Bosco," he said simply. "Something is just bugging me about him. He had this really weird look on his face during that whole thing," he finished.
"Yeah. You know when I first got here and noticed that something was wrong, even though he was awake and could clearly hear the alarm on the machine going off he didn't bother to call anyone," Doc relayed to Ty. "Hmm," Ty replied, as everyone turned toward the commotion coming off the elevator.
Angela Boscorelli was practically running down the hallway with Mikey right behind her. "Faith!" she called out. "Faith, where are you?" she called again as she approached the crowd outside of her son's room. "Is he...?" were the only words she managed to get out as she grabbed hold of Sully's arm.
"No. Mrs. Boscorelli. They were able to resuscitate him. But he's still unconscious. Faith's in with him," Sully finished, stepping aside to let her into the room.
Ty told Sully that he would go down and let Jimmy and Kim know what was going on.
Faith turned at the sound of someone coming in the room, tears still on her cheeks. "Faith?" Angela said quietly as she approached the bed. "What happened?" She reached over and put her hand on her son's leg to let him know that she was there.
"I don't know Angela. Apparently, his heart stopped beating for a while. Luckily Doc was here and was able to start CPR right away. Then the doctor came in and they were able to bring him back," she said, as she started to cry again.
Angela moved closer to Faith and put her arm around her shoulders, trying to comfort her while she tried to absorb what had happened. "Doctor?" she said, catching Jamison's attention. "What happened to my boy?" she asked him.
"Mrs. Boscorelli, Faith. I don't know what exactly happened, but we're going to run some tests to try to find out. He seems to be stable right now. Thanks to Doc out there," he said, motioning out toward the group in the hall. "He's the one that noticed he was in trouble and started CPR and summoned help. If not for him, who knows what might have happened," he stated. The patient in the other bed made a sort of growling sound loud enough to draw the attention of those in the room.
"I'm sorry," the doctor said to the patient. "We're going to be out of your way in a just a few minutes. Please try to relax. I know it was a scary time," said the doctor as he went over to look over the chart. He saw the patient's name and realized that this was the patient that he had operated on for the infection in his ankle. He looked quite different since he was on the mend and had had a bath and shave.
"Mr. Crisafulli," he started. "Let me take a look at that wound while I'm here. If everything is healing nicely and the infection is clearing up enough, we should be able to put you in a full cast and get you started on some physical therapy," he said, continuing to look over his chart. He noticed that the nurse had not yet given him is medications and said so to her.
"Yes, Doctor. I was about to when all this happened," she said, motioning to Bosco and the man across the hall who had expired despite the staff's best efforts. "I'll do it right now," she said, looking around the table next to his bed for the syringe that she had left there. "Um," she said with a puzzled look on her face.
"What?" asked Jamison. "Um, I can't seem to find his medication. I must have left it out by the nurse's station," she explained, knowing that she would get in trouble for leaving controlled substances lying around - let alone right next to a patient. It was done all the time. There'd never been a problem before. It had probably gotten mixed up in the debris from Bosco's Code.
"I'll go get it now," she said, rushing from the room. "Be right back Mr. Crisafulli," she said as she left.
"Okay, let's take a look at that wound, shall we?" he said as he started to remove the dressing. The bandage stuck to the wound slightly and Crisafulli jumped as it pulled at his healing ankle, knocking the chart off the side of his bed. "Sorry about that," apologized Jamison, bending over to pick up the chart. He noticed the empty syringe lying on the floor and made a mental note to tell the nurse it was there when she returned.
He finished checking over his patient, took one last look at Bosco and told Faith and Angela that he'd check back in a little bit.
He walked out into the hallway and saw all the people waiting around. He spoke with them briefly and they all started to head out to the waiting area. Sully stuck his head into the room and told Faith that they'd be out in the waiting room. "Thanks Sully," Faith said as her nurse returned to the room.
"Officer Yokas, I'm afraid I have to get you back downstairs to your room," she said apologetically.
"No, I'm staying here," she stated matter of factly.
"No, Officer, you're going back downstairs. I have my orders to follow and your due for your x-rays and medications," she said sternly as she walked over and took hold of the handles on the wheelchair.
"Wait!" she said, grabbing onto Bosco's bed. "No! I need to stay here with him."
"Faith," said Angela calmly. "Go ahead and get your x-rays and medicine. I'll stay here with Maurice. I promise. I'm not going anywhere. Mikey will go down with you and then he can bring you back up when you're done," she said, motioning for Mikey to go with Faith.
"Yeah Faith. C'mon. I'll bring you right back up," Mikey told her.
"Okay," she said, gradually giving in. "But I AM coming back up here," she said more for the nurse's benefit than anyone else's. "Bosco. I have to go get some x-rays and stuff, but I'll be right back. Please try to wake up. Everyone is here for you. Your Mom is right here until I get back," she said, lifting his hand up and holding it against her lips. She thought she felt slight movement in his fingers, but realized it must have been her imagination.
"We'll see," the nurse responded. "No. I AM coming back here," Faith said leaving no room for argument.
"It's okay Faith," said Dr. Jamison coming back into the room when he heard what Faith was saying. "After they move Bosco into the empty room up the hall, I'll have you moved up here also," he stated as the nurse gave him a dirty look. "Doctor, she doesn't need ICU care. She should be downstairs," she argued.
"You know, she saved this man's life twice by being with him. I'll be damned if I'm going to separate them again," Jamison said, putting the nurse's objections out of the picture.
"Yes, Doctor," she said finally, wheeling Faith away, Mikey following.
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Sully and Doc had come back down to Kim's room to join Davis and Jimmy and tell them what was going on. Kim had calmed down a bit, but was still shaken by the events.
They talked for a little while until the announcement that visiting hours were over came over the PA system. Sully and Davis said their good-byes and shook hands with Jimmy.
"How're you getting back to the station? You're working right?" asked Sully, remembering that they had driven him over in their RMP.
"Oh, uh, I guess I better get going then," he said reluctantly, standing up after giving Kim a kiss. "You can call me at the station, no matter what time, okay?" he said and she nodded her head.
"You know what Jimmy? If you give me a ride home, you can take my car back to the house. That medicine is kicking in and I don't think I can drive home," Doc said tiredly.
"Sure, Doc. No problem, but how are you gonna get your car in the morning?" asked Jimmy. "Carlos is working. I'll have him bring it by when he gets off shift and he can take a cab from there," he said.
"Cool," Jimmy said, taking a deep breath and saying goodnight to Kim, who was feverishly writing something on her board.
She held the board up toward Doc and he read it and laughed. "Tomorrow. I promise I'll bring you TWO shakes tomorrow." Everyone chuckled and headed out.
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Well, I haven't posted in a while, but I hope you like this chapter. More to follow soon.
Sully, Ty and Jimmy all converged on Kim's room to find her crying and upset.
"Kimmy, what's going on?" asked Jimmy soothingly, as he arrived at her side.
Kim shrugged her shoulders indicating that she didn't know what was happening. She began furiously writing broken sentences on her board. "Bosco - surgery last night. Doc checking, then Code Blue in ICU. Faith went. That's all I know," she finished, holding the board up for the three to see.
"Shit," said Sully as he and Davis left to head upstairs. Sully called over his shoulder, "We'll send word back to you ASAP."
Jimmy stayed with Kim, trying to get her calmed down, hoping that Bosco was okay.
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Faith had made it as far as the nurse's station in the wheelchair when her nurse stopped her. "Officer Yokas! Where do you think you're going?!"
Faith pushed the nurse's hand off the wheelchair and started turning the wheels again. "I'm going to the ICU. I just know that the Code was for Bosco," she answered, finally making it to the elevator and pushing the button. The nurse remembered the story about Faith and her partner in the Emergency Room when they had arrived. She had seen it happen before and she wasn't about to keep Faith from her partner this time - if indeed it was him in trouble upstairs.
The nurse called over to one of her co-workers, "Amy, I'm taking Officer Yokas up to ICU. Keep an eye on my patients. I'll be back as soon as I can." The young nurse nodded and Faith and her nurse got on the elevator and headed to the ICU.
The elevator doors opened onto the unit and the nurse pushed Faith down the hall where she saw Sully and Davis standing in the hallway, their attention on what was going on in the room. "Sully!" Faith called to him. Ty and Sully looked in the direction of her voice and saw the look of fear on Faith.
Sully walked quickly toward her, "Faith. It's Bosco. They're working on him. Doc's in there and so is Dr. Jamison from the ER."
"What the hell happened Sully?!" she asked with confusion. "I don't know Faith. Let's just get him back and then we'll find out," he answered, taking her from the nurse and pushing her the rest of the way down the hall.
"Get him back? What do you mean 'get him back'?" she asked insistently, sitting forward in the wheelchair so she could see into the room.
"Oh my God!" she gasped as she saw the staff doing CPR and Doc ventilating Bosco. "Davis, look out. Let me in there," she ordered pushing Ty out of the way and wheeling herself into the room. A nurse tried to prevent her from entering, but Dr. Jamison yelled over to let her in. He too had seen what affect she'd had on Bosco in the ER.
"Bosco! I'm here. You need to come back. You need to fight back. Do you hear me?" she yelled to him, tears streaming down her face. She reached out and grabbed onto his hand, "Please, Bosco. Don't leave me."
Davis couldn't help but notice the other patient in Bosco's room. He almost seemed to be smiling at Bosco's plight. His bed had been shoved over to make room for the personnel and equipment that was being used to keep Bosco alive, but no one noticed the spent syringe that fell from the underside of the bed when it was moved.
Suddenly, the room was silenced with six words, "Hold CPR. We have a rhythm," stated Dr. Jamison. Doc kept ventilating Bosco and everyone watched the monitor as the rhythm improved very slowly until he was again in normal sinus rhythm. He began spontaneous respirations on his own and Doc removed the ambu bag and replaced it with a simple face mask providing pure oxygen for him.
"Bosco," came a quiet voice. It was Faith. "Bosco, can you hear me?" she asked, holding tightly to his hand. Dr. Jamison leaned over and moved a couple of pieces of equipment out of the way so that Faith could get closer. "Bosco, please open your eyes," she pleaded. He did not. He remained unconscious.
After a short time more, it was decided that Bosco had been stabilized. The Code Team had dispersed, leaving only Dr. Jamison, the ICU staff and Bosco's fellow co-workers behind. All but Dr. Jamison and Faith returned to the hallway to wait. One of the nurse's was getting a very irritated Crisafulli settled, moving his bed back where it belonged and cleaning up the discarded medical supply wrappers that had been dropped on the floor during the Code. The innocent-looking syringe remained behind, the nurse not seen over by the wall where Crisafulli's bed had been pushed.
"Okay, Mr. Crisafulli. Hopefully that's all the excitement for the night. We'll have to keep quite a close watch on Officer Boscorelli for a little while, which means that we'll be in and out constantly. So, we're going to move him into another room so we won't disturb you," she explained as she checked his IV and rearranged his blankets.
Davis was looking through the glass at Bosco, when something made him look over to the other patient in the room. "What is it with that guy?" thought Davis aloud. "What guy?" asked Doc, looking from Ty into the room as he took the glass of water and pain medication that Dr. Jamison had ordered for him for his shoulder from the nurse.
"That guy in the room with Bosco," he said simply. "Something is just bugging me about him. He had this really weird look on his face during that whole thing," he finished.
"Yeah. You know when I first got here and noticed that something was wrong, even though he was awake and could clearly hear the alarm on the machine going off he didn't bother to call anyone," Doc relayed to Ty. "Hmm," Ty replied, as everyone turned toward the commotion coming off the elevator.
Angela Boscorelli was practically running down the hallway with Mikey right behind her. "Faith!" she called out. "Faith, where are you?" she called again as she approached the crowd outside of her son's room. "Is he...?" were the only words she managed to get out as she grabbed hold of Sully's arm.
"No. Mrs. Boscorelli. They were able to resuscitate him. But he's still unconscious. Faith's in with him," Sully finished, stepping aside to let her into the room.
Ty told Sully that he would go down and let Jimmy and Kim know what was going on.
Faith turned at the sound of someone coming in the room, tears still on her cheeks. "Faith?" Angela said quietly as she approached the bed. "What happened?" She reached over and put her hand on her son's leg to let him know that she was there.
"I don't know Angela. Apparently, his heart stopped beating for a while. Luckily Doc was here and was able to start CPR right away. Then the doctor came in and they were able to bring him back," she said, as she started to cry again.
Angela moved closer to Faith and put her arm around her shoulders, trying to comfort her while she tried to absorb what had happened. "Doctor?" she said, catching Jamison's attention. "What happened to my boy?" she asked him.
"Mrs. Boscorelli, Faith. I don't know what exactly happened, but we're going to run some tests to try to find out. He seems to be stable right now. Thanks to Doc out there," he said, motioning out toward the group in the hall. "He's the one that noticed he was in trouble and started CPR and summoned help. If not for him, who knows what might have happened," he stated. The patient in the other bed made a sort of growling sound loud enough to draw the attention of those in the room.
"I'm sorry," the doctor said to the patient. "We're going to be out of your way in a just a few minutes. Please try to relax. I know it was a scary time," said the doctor as he went over to look over the chart. He saw the patient's name and realized that this was the patient that he had operated on for the infection in his ankle. He looked quite different since he was on the mend and had had a bath and shave.
"Mr. Crisafulli," he started. "Let me take a look at that wound while I'm here. If everything is healing nicely and the infection is clearing up enough, we should be able to put you in a full cast and get you started on some physical therapy," he said, continuing to look over his chart. He noticed that the nurse had not yet given him is medications and said so to her.
"Yes, Doctor. I was about to when all this happened," she said, motioning to Bosco and the man across the hall who had expired despite the staff's best efforts. "I'll do it right now," she said, looking around the table next to his bed for the syringe that she had left there. "Um," she said with a puzzled look on her face.
"What?" asked Jamison. "Um, I can't seem to find his medication. I must have left it out by the nurse's station," she explained, knowing that she would get in trouble for leaving controlled substances lying around - let alone right next to a patient. It was done all the time. There'd never been a problem before. It had probably gotten mixed up in the debris from Bosco's Code.
"I'll go get it now," she said, rushing from the room. "Be right back Mr. Crisafulli," she said as she left.
"Okay, let's take a look at that wound, shall we?" he said as he started to remove the dressing. The bandage stuck to the wound slightly and Crisafulli jumped as it pulled at his healing ankle, knocking the chart off the side of his bed. "Sorry about that," apologized Jamison, bending over to pick up the chart. He noticed the empty syringe lying on the floor and made a mental note to tell the nurse it was there when she returned.
He finished checking over his patient, took one last look at Bosco and told Faith and Angela that he'd check back in a little bit.
He walked out into the hallway and saw all the people waiting around. He spoke with them briefly and they all started to head out to the waiting area. Sully stuck his head into the room and told Faith that they'd be out in the waiting room. "Thanks Sully," Faith said as her nurse returned to the room.
"Officer Yokas, I'm afraid I have to get you back downstairs to your room," she said apologetically.
"No, I'm staying here," she stated matter of factly.
"No, Officer, you're going back downstairs. I have my orders to follow and your due for your x-rays and medications," she said sternly as she walked over and took hold of the handles on the wheelchair.
"Wait!" she said, grabbing onto Bosco's bed. "No! I need to stay here with him."
"Faith," said Angela calmly. "Go ahead and get your x-rays and medicine. I'll stay here with Maurice. I promise. I'm not going anywhere. Mikey will go down with you and then he can bring you back up when you're done," she said, motioning for Mikey to go with Faith.
"Yeah Faith. C'mon. I'll bring you right back up," Mikey told her.
"Okay," she said, gradually giving in. "But I AM coming back up here," she said more for the nurse's benefit than anyone else's. "Bosco. I have to go get some x-rays and stuff, but I'll be right back. Please try to wake up. Everyone is here for you. Your Mom is right here until I get back," she said, lifting his hand up and holding it against her lips. She thought she felt slight movement in his fingers, but realized it must have been her imagination.
"We'll see," the nurse responded. "No. I AM coming back here," Faith said leaving no room for argument.
"It's okay Faith," said Dr. Jamison coming back into the room when he heard what Faith was saying. "After they move Bosco into the empty room up the hall, I'll have you moved up here also," he stated as the nurse gave him a dirty look. "Doctor, she doesn't need ICU care. She should be downstairs," she argued.
"You know, she saved this man's life twice by being with him. I'll be damned if I'm going to separate them again," Jamison said, putting the nurse's objections out of the picture.
"Yes, Doctor," she said finally, wheeling Faith away, Mikey following.
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Sully and Doc had come back down to Kim's room to join Davis and Jimmy and tell them what was going on. Kim had calmed down a bit, but was still shaken by the events.
They talked for a little while until the announcement that visiting hours were over came over the PA system. Sully and Davis said their good-byes and shook hands with Jimmy.
"How're you getting back to the station? You're working right?" asked Sully, remembering that they had driven him over in their RMP.
"Oh, uh, I guess I better get going then," he said reluctantly, standing up after giving Kim a kiss. "You can call me at the station, no matter what time, okay?" he said and she nodded her head.
"You know what Jimmy? If you give me a ride home, you can take my car back to the house. That medicine is kicking in and I don't think I can drive home," Doc said tiredly.
"Sure, Doc. No problem, but how are you gonna get your car in the morning?" asked Jimmy. "Carlos is working. I'll have him bring it by when he gets off shift and he can take a cab from there," he said.
"Cool," Jimmy said, taking a deep breath and saying goodnight to Kim, who was feverishly writing something on her board.
She held the board up toward Doc and he read it and laughed. "Tomorrow. I promise I'll bring you TWO shakes tomorrow." Everyone chuckled and headed out.
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Well, I haven't posted in a while, but I hope you like this chapter. More to follow soon.