All of the firefighters in the room couldn't believe what they'd just heard
even Carlos was shocked.
"Who found her?" Walsh asked.
"I did. I guess Bobby went to go get something to eat while she was asleep and when I came in, it looked like she was resting peacefully. I heard an alarm go off but I was close to the door so I thought it was from one of the rooms close to hers. I looked at one of the monitors and saw numbers dropping quickly and put my hand in front of her face and noticed she wasn't breathing." He replied.
"She's going to be ok right?" D.K asked.
"From what the doctor said, she should be ok. Once they bring her out of sedation they can't take her directly off the vent though because of a potential side effect the stuff that induces sedation can cause. So once they are sure she won't have any problems breathing on her own once she's brought out of it we can figure out what happened." Jimmy said in response.
"They don't know what caused her vitals to shoot up that high right?" Lombardo asked.
"Right. We won't know till we get a chance to talk to her once they take her off the vent." He replied.
"Wait a minute. We could talk to her before she comes off the vent, but granted she won't be able to verbalize a response because of the tube, but she could write it down like on a dry erase board or a piece of paper or something." Alex said quickly.
"Taylor's right." Walsh said in agreement.
"Man why didn't I think of that?" Jimmy asked himself quietly.
The rest of the shift was somewhat steady but as the night wore on things slowed down. Alex went through her locker and found a small dry erase board and markers that she normally used to write reminders on, and took it out of her locker and grabbed some of the markers that go with it and headed back downstairs.
"Hey boys look what I found." Alex said.
"Lemme guess Alex, you found that in your locker upstairs that holds everything but the kitchen sink right?" Walsh snided with a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
"Yes I did thank you very much. And you're lucky I found this because we couldn't go out and buy one at this hour." She replied grinning.
Jimmy laughed at what Alex had said and said mockingly, "Someone here just happens to take the motto 'Always be prepared' to a whole new level."
Meanwhile back at the hospital, Bobby sat beside her bed checking the monitors of the machines she was hooked to periodically. Making sure nothing abnormal was going on. He blamed himself for leaving, because even though they didn't know what caused her vitals to shoot up like that, maybe there was something he could have done to keep it from happening. Whatever had caused it though, he wasn't going to leave her now and risk anything else happening while he was gone. She looked so peaceful and at ease at that moment, he wondered what it could have been that caused her vitals to shoot up so high.
"What happened Kimmy? What happened while I was gone that caused all this to happen?" he asked softly before falling asleep in the chair beside her bed.
The nurse that was taking care of her came in periodically to check on her to make sure everything was ok after she'd coded and found Bobby asleep. Since it was kind of cool that evening on the floor she went and got a blanket from the linen room and brought it in and put it over him, since she knew he wasn't going to leave. He'd been here day and night since she'd been brought up from the ER.
That evening after Alex's shift was over she and Jimmy ran by Mercy and went to take the dry erase board up to Kim's room. The two walked in quietly and found them both asleep and wrote a quick message on a piece of paper and put it on top of the board and placed it on the bedside table and left as quietly as they had came, not disturbing Bobby. The took a final glance at Kim before they'd left and hoped nothing else happened throughout the night because she'd been through enough already. As they got back outside and headed home Alex asked, "I wonder what time they are going to take her off sedation."
"I don't know, but I imagine Bobby would call us to let everyone know when she comes out of it." Jimmy replied, wondering the same thing Alex had just asked.
She nodded her head in response and looked out at the busy streets of the city as they drove, hoping no other incidents happened overnight.
The next morning Bobby woke up around 11:30 and found a blanket over him.
"How on earth could I have fallen asleep? Not only are hospital chairs uncomfortable as hell, something could have happened through out the night and I wouldn't have known." He said silently.
He looked at the monitors and noticed that everything was fine, that nothing had happened to her over night. Shift change for the nurses came at 7 am. The nurse who was going to be taking care Kim that day was speaking with the nurse who'd had her over night and was getting details from her when she mentioned that Bobby had been there with her since she'd been admitted from the ER. The woman was shocked, but admired his devotion to make sure she was going to be ok, especially after watching what was done to her when they tried to bring her back out of the code.
He got up and stretched for a bit and folded the blanket and placed it on the chair he'd just gotten up from when he noticed the dry erase board on the table. Picking it up, he read the message written on the slip of paper that Alex had left and smiled. He heard a knock at the door and saw one of the nurse's step into the room, noticing there must have been a shift change because he hadn't seen this particular nurse before.
"Good morning. My name is Hailey and I'll be taking of your wife for the day." The young woman said politely. "If there is anything that you or your wife need let me know."
"Thank you," he replied quietly; "Has there been any word on when they are going to bring her out of sedation?"
"I'll check with Dr. Coniam and let you know." Hailey replied before leaving the room.
Bobby nodded his head in response and turned his attention back to Kim after she'd gone.
Later that afternoon Alex and Jimmy stopped by to see how Bobby had come through the events of the evening before and to see if there was any idea on what time she was coming out of sedation. Hailey had returned thirty minutes after she'd left and let Bobby know that she should be coming out of sedation around 4 or 5 that evening and they'd probably take her off the vent a couple of hours after depending on if she has any side effects from the Diprivan. When they arrived, the found Bobby sitting beside her bed like they had found him the night before only this time he was awake not asleep.
"Hey," Alex called out quietly as she and Jimmy entered the room.
"What are you two up to?" Bobby asked, as the two made their way towards him.
"Thought we'd drop by before we go into work." Alex replied; "Any word on when Kim's coming out of sedation?"
"One of the nurses checked and it looks like she'll come out of it around 4 or 5. Then a couple of hours later she'll probably come off the vent." He said in response.
"Keep us updated on what all happens, because it looks like I'm with him for the afternoon." Alex replied, smirking at Jimmy over her shoulder.
"Will do." Bobby replied laughing at the look Jimmy shot at Alex after her comment; "Thanks for the board, it will come in handy pretty soon."
"No problem, you two can put it to more use than I can. It was just sitting in my locker collecting dust." Alex said grinning.
"See you later." They both said as they left to head to the station for work.
"Later," Bobby replied, watching the two as they left the room.
Around 4:30 that afternoon Dr. Coniam came into the room with one of the anesthesiologists, Hailey coming in a short time later after the two had arrived. The anesthesiologist began to gradually decrease the amount of Diprivan going through the IV because of the rapid clearance rate from the body she would come out of the sedation gradually. After several minutes they got to the point to where they'd discontinued the solution and went ahead and removed the IV from her hand where the solution was going in. Bobby was gently holding her hand, watching for any signs that she was coming to when he heard the doctor begin to speak.
"Kim. This is Dr. Coniam, if you can hear me squeeze Bobby's hand once." The doctor said in a normal tone of voice, checking her level of consciousness as she came out of sedation.
She heard voices surrounding her but couldn't open her eyes; they felt too heavy to open at the moment. She felt someone gently grasping her hand and comprehended what someone had said and did as they had asked. Bobby felt her hand squeeze his faintly and he said, "She just responded faintly to wait you told her."
"We'll try again in a few minutes to see if her reaction is any stronger." Dr. Coniam said quietly.
About five minutes later he said, "Kim, if you can hear me squeeze Bobby's hand again."
Her response was much stronger this time and within minutes her eyes opened and she peered around the room, slightly panicked that the she couldn't breathe again.
"Relájese a novio. Usted tuvo que ser vuelto a poner en el ventilador para ayudarlo a respirar. No lo luche, usted lo se quitará pronto." Bobby said gently, brushing a strand of her hair back out of her face. {Relax sweetheart. You had to be put back on the ventilator to help you breathe. Don't fight it, you'll be taken off it soon.}
She closed her eyes briefly, fighting the feelings of nausea that she'd began feeling as well as some uncomfortable abdominal cramps and a mild headache. She began to have feeling in her arms and legs as the continued effects of the sedation wore off.
The doctor saw the dry erase board and told Bobby to put it near her and get one of the markers for it and said to Kim, "Can you write down on the dry erase board Bobby is going to put by your hand what you are feeling right now?"
Bobby watched what she wrote on the board and read it aloud to Dr. Coniam.
"She's having feelings of nausea, abdominal cramps and a headache." He said quietly.
"Those are just temporary side effects of the Diprivan we gave you. They should subside momentarily. Other than that do you feel ok?" The doctor asked.
She tried to nod her head that she felt fine but felt the tube hit the back of her throat, making her want to cough so she wrote the word 'feel ok' on the board.
"We'll leave you alone for a bit, but we'll be back in a couple of hours to take you off the vent." Dr. Coniam said before he and the rest of the crew that had been present when she came out of sedation left, leaving Bobby the only one with her.
"What happened yesterday Kimmy?" Bobby asked gently.
He watched what she wrote on the board and read what she'd put on it.
'They were back'
Bobby looked at what she'd written and said slightly confused; "Who was back sweetheart?" and watched her write below what she'd written before.
'Kidnappers'
"How many were here yesterday?" he asked gently, feeling anger building and nervousness at her response.
'2'
"Was Craig one of them?" he asked curiously.
'no'
He noticed her shivering a bit and said, "Do you feel ok?" and watched what she wrote.
'Cold and tired'
"Do you want another blanket?" he asked.
'yes'
He got the blanket off the back of the chair and put it over her and said gently, "You need to stay awake sweetheart. It's probably another side effect of the medication but you been sleeping since yesterday afternoon."
'Joey and Keira?'
"They're fine. Joey was frightened to hear what had happened because your mom was going to bring them down after I called and told them you were awake. Keira's started to settle down a bit even though I would imagine her first tooth should be coming in any day now." He said quietly.
Spanish Translations
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Relájese a novio. Usted tuvo que ser vuelto a poner en el ventilador para ayudarlo a respirar. No lo luche, usted lo se quitará pronto.
Relax sweetheart. You had to be put back on the ventilator to help you breathe. Don't fight it, you'll be taken off it soon.
"Who found her?" Walsh asked.
"I did. I guess Bobby went to go get something to eat while she was asleep and when I came in, it looked like she was resting peacefully. I heard an alarm go off but I was close to the door so I thought it was from one of the rooms close to hers. I looked at one of the monitors and saw numbers dropping quickly and put my hand in front of her face and noticed she wasn't breathing." He replied.
"She's going to be ok right?" D.K asked.
"From what the doctor said, she should be ok. Once they bring her out of sedation they can't take her directly off the vent though because of a potential side effect the stuff that induces sedation can cause. So once they are sure she won't have any problems breathing on her own once she's brought out of it we can figure out what happened." Jimmy said in response.
"They don't know what caused her vitals to shoot up that high right?" Lombardo asked.
"Right. We won't know till we get a chance to talk to her once they take her off the vent." He replied.
"Wait a minute. We could talk to her before she comes off the vent, but granted she won't be able to verbalize a response because of the tube, but she could write it down like on a dry erase board or a piece of paper or something." Alex said quickly.
"Taylor's right." Walsh said in agreement.
"Man why didn't I think of that?" Jimmy asked himself quietly.
The rest of the shift was somewhat steady but as the night wore on things slowed down. Alex went through her locker and found a small dry erase board and markers that she normally used to write reminders on, and took it out of her locker and grabbed some of the markers that go with it and headed back downstairs.
"Hey boys look what I found." Alex said.
"Lemme guess Alex, you found that in your locker upstairs that holds everything but the kitchen sink right?" Walsh snided with a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
"Yes I did thank you very much. And you're lucky I found this because we couldn't go out and buy one at this hour." She replied grinning.
Jimmy laughed at what Alex had said and said mockingly, "Someone here just happens to take the motto 'Always be prepared' to a whole new level."
Meanwhile back at the hospital, Bobby sat beside her bed checking the monitors of the machines she was hooked to periodically. Making sure nothing abnormal was going on. He blamed himself for leaving, because even though they didn't know what caused her vitals to shoot up like that, maybe there was something he could have done to keep it from happening. Whatever had caused it though, he wasn't going to leave her now and risk anything else happening while he was gone. She looked so peaceful and at ease at that moment, he wondered what it could have been that caused her vitals to shoot up so high.
"What happened Kimmy? What happened while I was gone that caused all this to happen?" he asked softly before falling asleep in the chair beside her bed.
The nurse that was taking care of her came in periodically to check on her to make sure everything was ok after she'd coded and found Bobby asleep. Since it was kind of cool that evening on the floor she went and got a blanket from the linen room and brought it in and put it over him, since she knew he wasn't going to leave. He'd been here day and night since she'd been brought up from the ER.
That evening after Alex's shift was over she and Jimmy ran by Mercy and went to take the dry erase board up to Kim's room. The two walked in quietly and found them both asleep and wrote a quick message on a piece of paper and put it on top of the board and placed it on the bedside table and left as quietly as they had came, not disturbing Bobby. The took a final glance at Kim before they'd left and hoped nothing else happened throughout the night because she'd been through enough already. As they got back outside and headed home Alex asked, "I wonder what time they are going to take her off sedation."
"I don't know, but I imagine Bobby would call us to let everyone know when she comes out of it." Jimmy replied, wondering the same thing Alex had just asked.
She nodded her head in response and looked out at the busy streets of the city as they drove, hoping no other incidents happened overnight.
The next morning Bobby woke up around 11:30 and found a blanket over him.
"How on earth could I have fallen asleep? Not only are hospital chairs uncomfortable as hell, something could have happened through out the night and I wouldn't have known." He said silently.
He looked at the monitors and noticed that everything was fine, that nothing had happened to her over night. Shift change for the nurses came at 7 am. The nurse who was going to be taking care Kim that day was speaking with the nurse who'd had her over night and was getting details from her when she mentioned that Bobby had been there with her since she'd been admitted from the ER. The woman was shocked, but admired his devotion to make sure she was going to be ok, especially after watching what was done to her when they tried to bring her back out of the code.
He got up and stretched for a bit and folded the blanket and placed it on the chair he'd just gotten up from when he noticed the dry erase board on the table. Picking it up, he read the message written on the slip of paper that Alex had left and smiled. He heard a knock at the door and saw one of the nurse's step into the room, noticing there must have been a shift change because he hadn't seen this particular nurse before.
"Good morning. My name is Hailey and I'll be taking of your wife for the day." The young woman said politely. "If there is anything that you or your wife need let me know."
"Thank you," he replied quietly; "Has there been any word on when they are going to bring her out of sedation?"
"I'll check with Dr. Coniam and let you know." Hailey replied before leaving the room.
Bobby nodded his head in response and turned his attention back to Kim after she'd gone.
Later that afternoon Alex and Jimmy stopped by to see how Bobby had come through the events of the evening before and to see if there was any idea on what time she was coming out of sedation. Hailey had returned thirty minutes after she'd left and let Bobby know that she should be coming out of sedation around 4 or 5 that evening and they'd probably take her off the vent a couple of hours after depending on if she has any side effects from the Diprivan. When they arrived, the found Bobby sitting beside her bed like they had found him the night before only this time he was awake not asleep.
"Hey," Alex called out quietly as she and Jimmy entered the room.
"What are you two up to?" Bobby asked, as the two made their way towards him.
"Thought we'd drop by before we go into work." Alex replied; "Any word on when Kim's coming out of sedation?"
"One of the nurses checked and it looks like she'll come out of it around 4 or 5. Then a couple of hours later she'll probably come off the vent." He said in response.
"Keep us updated on what all happens, because it looks like I'm with him for the afternoon." Alex replied, smirking at Jimmy over her shoulder.
"Will do." Bobby replied laughing at the look Jimmy shot at Alex after her comment; "Thanks for the board, it will come in handy pretty soon."
"No problem, you two can put it to more use than I can. It was just sitting in my locker collecting dust." Alex said grinning.
"See you later." They both said as they left to head to the station for work.
"Later," Bobby replied, watching the two as they left the room.
Around 4:30 that afternoon Dr. Coniam came into the room with one of the anesthesiologists, Hailey coming in a short time later after the two had arrived. The anesthesiologist began to gradually decrease the amount of Diprivan going through the IV because of the rapid clearance rate from the body she would come out of the sedation gradually. After several minutes they got to the point to where they'd discontinued the solution and went ahead and removed the IV from her hand where the solution was going in. Bobby was gently holding her hand, watching for any signs that she was coming to when he heard the doctor begin to speak.
"Kim. This is Dr. Coniam, if you can hear me squeeze Bobby's hand once." The doctor said in a normal tone of voice, checking her level of consciousness as she came out of sedation.
She heard voices surrounding her but couldn't open her eyes; they felt too heavy to open at the moment. She felt someone gently grasping her hand and comprehended what someone had said and did as they had asked. Bobby felt her hand squeeze his faintly and he said, "She just responded faintly to wait you told her."
"We'll try again in a few minutes to see if her reaction is any stronger." Dr. Coniam said quietly.
About five minutes later he said, "Kim, if you can hear me squeeze Bobby's hand again."
Her response was much stronger this time and within minutes her eyes opened and she peered around the room, slightly panicked that the she couldn't breathe again.
"Relájese a novio. Usted tuvo que ser vuelto a poner en el ventilador para ayudarlo a respirar. No lo luche, usted lo se quitará pronto." Bobby said gently, brushing a strand of her hair back out of her face. {Relax sweetheart. You had to be put back on the ventilator to help you breathe. Don't fight it, you'll be taken off it soon.}
She closed her eyes briefly, fighting the feelings of nausea that she'd began feeling as well as some uncomfortable abdominal cramps and a mild headache. She began to have feeling in her arms and legs as the continued effects of the sedation wore off.
The doctor saw the dry erase board and told Bobby to put it near her and get one of the markers for it and said to Kim, "Can you write down on the dry erase board Bobby is going to put by your hand what you are feeling right now?"
Bobby watched what she wrote on the board and read it aloud to Dr. Coniam.
"She's having feelings of nausea, abdominal cramps and a headache." He said quietly.
"Those are just temporary side effects of the Diprivan we gave you. They should subside momentarily. Other than that do you feel ok?" The doctor asked.
She tried to nod her head that she felt fine but felt the tube hit the back of her throat, making her want to cough so she wrote the word 'feel ok' on the board.
"We'll leave you alone for a bit, but we'll be back in a couple of hours to take you off the vent." Dr. Coniam said before he and the rest of the crew that had been present when she came out of sedation left, leaving Bobby the only one with her.
"What happened yesterday Kimmy?" Bobby asked gently.
He watched what she wrote on the board and read what she'd put on it.
'They were back'
Bobby looked at what she'd written and said slightly confused; "Who was back sweetheart?" and watched her write below what she'd written before.
'Kidnappers'
"How many were here yesterday?" he asked gently, feeling anger building and nervousness at her response.
'2'
"Was Craig one of them?" he asked curiously.
'no'
He noticed her shivering a bit and said, "Do you feel ok?" and watched what she wrote.
'Cold and tired'
"Do you want another blanket?" he asked.
'yes'
He got the blanket off the back of the chair and put it over her and said gently, "You need to stay awake sweetheart. It's probably another side effect of the medication but you been sleeping since yesterday afternoon."
'Joey and Keira?'
"They're fine. Joey was frightened to hear what had happened because your mom was going to bring them down after I called and told them you were awake. Keira's started to settle down a bit even though I would imagine her first tooth should be coming in any day now." He said quietly.
Spanish Translations
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Relájese a novio. Usted tuvo que ser vuelto a poner en el ventilador para ayudarlo a respirar. No lo luche, usted lo se quitará pronto.
Relax sweetheart. You had to be put back on the ventilator to help you breathe. Don't fight it, you'll be taken off it soon.