X-Treme Makeover Phantom Edition
Under the Knife
Dr. Perlman scanned Erik's sleeping face. "Scalpel." he demanded. A backup nurse handed it to him. His assistant wasn't there yet.
As the doctor began to make his first cut to give Erik higher eyebrows, just so he wouldn't look so tired. When that was finished he inspected his work and nodded with a grin that said it was good.
"Where is m new assistant? I need that… where is the new girl? WHERE IS HIL—" he began to exclaim.
"Sorry. I'm here. Traffic was terrible…" Hilary paused. Under her breath, she said, "And my book was wonderful!"
"Alright Hilary. Hand me the chin implant over there." Dr. Perlman said.
"Right-o." Hilary picked up the package with the chin implant in it and ripped it open. "Ohhh… its squishy!" she giggled.
"Just give it to me." Perlman sighed.
Hilary handed him the implant. Dr. Perlman made a neat cut right under Erik's chin. He slid the small implant up under the skin. Hilary used a special little vacuum to suck away the excess blood that was oozing out of Erik's cut chin. Dr. Perlman stitched up the man's new chin and smiled. The doctor tilted Erik's head, so that he could see how the implant looked. "There we go. I think our Phantom is going to be quite pleased by this."
"Yay! I think it looks great!" Hilary sighed.
Next was Erik's total forehead and cheek replacement. Dr. Perlman had planned ahead and before Erik had even gotten to Los Angeles, he'd begun to grow some skin from a sample Christine had given him. The doctor now had enough to fill in Erik's forehead. The skin for his cheeks would come from his hips.
As Dr. Perlman went about replacing the skin on Erik's cheeks and forehead, Hilary aided by holding a container for the Doctor to put the old skin in. "This shouldn't leave much scarring at all. He should look normal."
"I'm so happy for him." Hilary added as she set the container of Erik's old scarred skin back onto the cart.
Perlman carefully cut some of the skin from Erik's hip off and prepared it to put into place on his cheeks. After the hip had been sewed up, Perlman used a special type of stitching that reduced scarring to nothing to adhere on the new skin. The doctor was very pleased with the way this came out. You couldn't even tell that Erik's cheeks had used to be part of his hip.
"All right, we're almost done here. Erik said that he wants a butt lift too. So, lets flip him over." Dr. Perlman said.
Three men came into the OR and helped Perlman flip the sleeping Phantom over. Perlman then did the butt lift, Hilary watched eagerly. "Gosh." She thought. "He had a cute butt before, now its going to be REALLY cute!"
It was three hours into the surgery when Perlman announced that he was finished, and all had gone well. "I'm so glad I didn't have any problems. Cheek and forehead replacements can be tough."
"You did them before?" Hilary asked.
"Yeah." Perlman paused. Then he whispered. "Ever hear of Michael Jackson?"
Hilary nodded. "Ewwwww…" she stuck her tongue out and made a look of disgust.
- - - - - -
As Erik sat in the recovery room, he dreamed…
"Christine, forget about Raoul, forget about everything you two ever had together. I love you more than he EVER could." Erik smiled in his sleep.
"Erik! How could you say such things! I love Raoul… but now that you have that new look, I don't know anymore. Maybe I should just leave with you." Christine seemed to ponder this.
"Please, Christine. My life is nothing without you. My MUSIC is nothing without you. I've done this for you." Erik touched his now smooth face.
"Oh, Erik! Yes, yes, I'll marry you and we'll live happily ever after. Right, Erik?"
Erik?
Erik?
Erik?
Erik awoke from his wonderful dream with a shout.
"Erik?" a blurry face prodded his side. "Erik? Erik?"
He opened his eyes and groaned. Hilary. It was Hilary not Christine. "Ow. I hurt all over. I can barely see… ohhhhhhh… the pain! The pain!" Erik screamed in agony.
"It's alright. I got my nursing degree way back when I was 18, so I can help you. Just roll over on your side, I've heard that helps." Hilary gave Erik a push.
With a bang, Erik landed on the hospital floor.
"Whoops." Hilary began to try to look innocent, but then gave up and rang the bell for the nurse. When the nurse arrived, her eyes widened.
"What happened?" the nurse exclaimed.
"He woke up and rolled over, I swear." Hilary blubbered.
"All right."
With Hilary's, and a passing doctor's help, the nurse helped get Erik back onto the bed, where he promptly passed out.
"Just leave him alone for a while. He'll wake up soon."
It turned out that it was hard for Hilary to leave anyone alone "for a while". Within a few minutes, she was slowly dripping ice water onto Erik so he'd wake up.
"Okay." Hilary sighed. "Stay that way then."
For many hours Hilary sat in the chair beside Erik's bed as Erik faked sleeping to get Hilary to let him alone.
Teeheehee. I like this repost.
-Kara