Chapter Two
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Dana relaxed against the pillows after Fox left. She was still in a state of disbelief after finding out she was having not one but four babies. It was overwhelming; she had almost everything she'd ever wanted, four kids and a loving husband.
"Dr. Scully?"
Dana looked up.
"Hi, I'm nurse Betty. I'll be taking care of you during your stay."
"Hello Betty, please call me Dana," she replied.
"You're a legend around here," Betty said.
Dana smiled tightly. "Well, I have been here ever since my residency."
"That's not all," Betty continued. "I read about you all over the place, like how you were the first doctor to perform a successful hemispherectomy*. And the man with the tumor! I mean, I though that a tumor inside the brainstem would be impossible to remove but you did it."
Dana was uncomfortable. She knew about all her accomplishments but she didn't like having people tell her everything about herself.
Betty laughed. "I'm sorry!" she apologized. "Here I am, jabbering on and on about you. I was just supposed to ask you if you'd rather have what the other patients are having or something from the employee cafeteria."
Dana blanched at the thought of either. "Um… My husband is bringing our dinner."
"Okay then," Betty replied, leaving.
Dana grabbed her cell phone and immediately called Fox. "Honey? Can you get our dinner from Café Milano? I can't stand the cafeteria food. It—."
A shadow fell across the doorway, a shadow she hadn't seen in a very long time, a shadow she had hoped she would never see again.
"Hello Dana."
She dropped her cell phone on the floor and her jaw hit the floor. It was Rob, her ex-fiancé.
"Long time, no see, eh?" he asked with a grin. He stepped inside the room.
Fear tightened its grip around Dana's heart. She wrapped her arms protectively around her unborn babies. "What are you doing here?" she choked out.
"Can't a guy come see his ex-fiancé?" he leered. He stared pointedly at her swollen abdomen. "I see the bastard got you pregnant and left you here all by yourself. How nice of him."
"He- he went to get our stuff," she stuttered. "And he's not a bastard, I love him." She pressed the emergency call button she held in her hand repeatedly.
"What's the matter Dana? Why are you so scared?"
Dana had always been a strong person. She knew how to steel herself against death and pain even when all hope was lost. But now, when she needed strength the most, her courage failed her.
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*A hemispherectomy is a treatment (surgery) for people who experience seizures on only one side of the body. This procedure involves the removal of the affected hemisphere of the brain. (The right brain controls the left side and vice versa) This procedure is only effective in children whose brains are capable of switching brain functions to the other side of the brain. This was first performed successfully by Dr. Ben Carson, director of pediatrics at John Hopkins Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He also performed the other surgery mentioned in this chapter. For more information on Dr. Ben Carson, see his autobiography, Gifted Hands.
