He roamed to the other end of the bed once noticing the clipboard attached to the railing. He pulled it off as quietly as possible and began to read. Most of the information he couldn't understand although he could work some things out. There was a lot of information about different amounts of different things they had given him, but he couldn't understand what they were from the abbreviations used. There was a small chart on one of the pages with a rota for redressing the wound. It appeared vital that it did not become infected. He began to leaf through the sheets where notes had been made about his improvement and condition every time he was checked up on. In the bottom corner of the last page of these updates there was a scrawled note saying the patient had a high fever, the temperature he was at, and the time this was taken. Tony checked his watch and saw it was around an hour ago. He continued leafing through the pages when the nurse entered again.
Startled her dropped the board and cringed at the sound it made as the metal collided with the floor. He spun round checking he hadn't woken Kim.
"Sorry." He said, noticing the suspicious look on her face. "I was curious," he finished whilst handing her the clipboard and notes.
She smiled and held out her hand, "It's okay, I'm May, by the way."
Tony shook her outstretched hand, "I'm Tony. Um...the notes there, are kinda hard to understand...if you wouldn't mind...would it be possible for you to tell me how he's doing... I mean, you know...is he getting better?"
Noticing the grave look of concern on his face, she took a deep breath.
"Well, the patient was rushed straight into surgery after going into shock... he had a large chest wound and high loss of blood and a damaged artery..." she continued to read from the notes... "The surgery was successful.. all damage repaired..." she smiled.
"Okay, but if he is okay may I ask what's with all the machines and wires he's hooked up to?"
"Well, one is for the blood transfusions. We don't usually use these but we felt it necessary considering the high amount of blood loss, this account for the blood in his system and how much we have pumped into him." She stopped to point at another machine, "This one is monitoring his heart monitor, it's standard procedure for patients in this state to have one of these." Again she stopped to point and Tony noticed how she talked with her hands, "These two are monitoring his body's responses and the damaged artery. We almost put him on a breathing machine but suddenly his body began to do so again by itself, which is why he was allowed to move to recovery so soon."
She stopped noticing the saddened look upon his face.
"I'm sorry, here I am, talking as though nothing is wrong, you must be very upset, are you two friends?"
"Yeah we work together."
"Ah I see, and who is this?" She asked while motioning to Kim.
"His daughter-"
Tony stopped as he herd a sudden beeping noise begin. His face consumed a look of fear.
"What's wrong, what's happening?"
She walked over to the machine the new noise was coming from and pressed a few buttons that stopped it.
"Relax. This is there to alert staff his temperature is rising again."
She took the cloths and began to wipe his face, neck and arms again. When she did this Jack let out a soft moan of pain although his lips barely moved.
"I better give him some more morphine, and it seems that he may come round soon," she chuckled to herself.
"Yeah," he replied thinking to himself how sweet she looked when she did this, and it appeared she noticed him watching her as she quickly brushed her dark hair behind her ears and looked away quickly. Feeling uncomfortable Tony said,
"Please excuse me I need to update the president."
The nurse began to laugh as though this was a joke. "He only made a moan Tony, it's not exactly much to update."
"The president is unbelievably worried as he and Jack are very close friends and he has ordered me to update him with the tiniest details so I think he would like to be informed of this detail."
"Oh, sorry, I didn't realise."
Tony felt himself getting angry although he didn't mean to direct it at the nurse.
"Yes well nobody seems to realise that the only reason Jack is here is because he saved the man. If it wasn't for Jack it would be the president laying here."
Quite taken aback by his last words she replied, "Oh... well I guess we all owe this man our appreciation then..." her voice trailed off. She didn't know why she was hurt by this many curtness when she had only just met him.
"Look, sorry if I was rude, but I have to go update the president."
"Of course." She watched as he left the room and then focused her attention back on her patient.
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