NOTE: I know nothing about medicine, so if there is no way in heck Lucy would ever survive the PE, forgive me, I am only a teen writer, trying to write a story. I don't claim a medical background or any knowledge whatsoever. Please do not get upset at any medical inaccuracies or inconsistencies with the plotline of the two stabbing episodes, Nor do I own, etc. the ER characters. Enjoy the story! Also, there is one part in this chapter where we hear Lucy's POV through her thoughts, in order to understand what she is going through.
The stabbing was all that John dreamed that night, mostly the sight of finding Lucy on the floor, nearly lifeless. He kept mumbling her name, "Lucy, Lucy, Lucy" through out the night. Clearly the stabbing (understandably) was all he could think and dream about.
That night, John woke up at four in the morning to the sight of a nurse above his bed. He rubbed his eyes. The nurse smiled.
"I'm taking your vitals, Dr. Carter" the kind nurse said, as she took his blood pressure.
"Mhhmm,"
he managed.
John tried to shift in his bed, but felt the stabbing
pain fill his entire body. He remembered.
"Dr.
Carter you should try to stay still. It's going to be uncomfortable
for a while."
John nodded. "Yeah," he mumbled.
Soon, however he was back asleep.
Later, at a more, yet not quite, sane hour, a voice woke John up. It was a different nurse.
"Dr. Carter, Dr. Benton and his team will be up at any minute to check on you. Sorry to wake you."
John nodded. "Yeah, I know."
The nurse nodded. "I forgot I'm Jana, your nurse today."
John's vision had turned from bed eye to relatively focused eye. He saw that the nurse was one he had seen before in the ER. "I know you…you were in the ER one..ouch…day."
Jana
nodded. "That hurt?"
John nodded.
After a quick examination, Jana was about to leave when Dr. Benton and his team came up.
"Carter! You look good,." Peter said.
Peter
looked around at John's wounds and such, and finally said goodbye,
as his team left.
"Take care, Carter," Peter said.
Dr. Corday came in that day, for the sole purpose of checking in on one patient: Lucy. Late that morning, she headed across the parking lot, and looked at the ER ambulance bay, which just the night before, had been covered in police cars and yellow tape. Now, only a strip of yellow tape remained on the ground, the only remnant of the terror less than 24 hours before.
She
headed into Lucy's room ten minutes later.
"Lucy! You look
great!"
Lucy was limp, but had her eyes open in her bed, half smiling, which was as much as she could manage with the tracheotomy tube in her throat.
"How is her breathing?" Dr. Corday asked the nurse. The nurse handed her the chart, which was growing.
"Here, Dr. Corday."
Dr.
Corday nodded. "Good, Lucy. The trach may come out by the end of
the week. How are you feeling?"
Dr. Corday handed her a pad of
paper. Lucy slowly wrote out how she was feeling: fine.
Dr.
Corday nodded. "Good. Are you in pain?"
Lucy nodded her weak
nod.
Dr. Corday looked at Lucy's chart again. "What is your
pain on the one to ten scale?"
Dr. Corday shook her head. "Right, I'll read out the numbers and if it is the number you feel the pain is then nod. Remember ten is the worst pain you've ever felt, one the least."
Lucy shook her head.
"One? Two? Three? Four? Five? Six? Seven? Eight? Nine?" Dr. Corday stopped as Lucy nodded.
"Alright,
Lucy, that's compared to last night?"
Lucy nodded again.
"Up
her pain meds Martha Jo, the order is right here."
Martha
Jo nodded.
"Alright Lucy, I'll be letting you rest, but let
your nurse know if the pain gets ANY worse, Lucy. Goodbye and rest."
Dr. Corday left the room, as Lucy closed her eyes and began to
fall asleep.
Inside Lucy's Head………………………………………………….
I can't believe that I was stabbed…I should have….I could have….No….Damn Carter! I knew something was wrong with Paul. I knew it! If only he had listened….Wait….No….Carter was busy……Why place blame: oh yeah, I was stabbed….Oh, that pain medicine is kicking in, God bless narcotics….I can't believe it was only last night….I feel sleepy….I think I'll go to sleep.
