Chapter 2…
The music for this chapter is "sparkle me" by the buffseeds! Boy do I love them
Yes I know you guys want me to write about cris/burke.. but I can't think of anything… any ides would be appreciated! Maybe the next chapter will be about them
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Meredith went upstairs and took a quick shower to freshen herself up. She hadn't slept in a while… and was not looking forward to seeing Derek at work. She planned on just ignoring Derek and only talking to him if she had to.
Izzie and George were already prepped and ready to go when Meredith came down the stairs.
"Try not to mention anything about the whole McDreamy thing will you? Please be nice towards her" George whispered to Izzie on their way out the front door.
"Oh come on George, why do you always think so low of me?" Izzie retorted sarcastically.
"I don't, its just… Meredith is… she's our friend and friends… oh forget it. Let's just go and try having a normal day."
Meredith heard the last part of what George said. Humph. "Since when did we have a 'normal' day at Seattle Grace?...come on, we're gonna be late."
All three of them we're walking towards the elevator when they spotted Derek headed for them. "Umm, I'll catch up with you guys later." And Meredith changed directions to the stairs instead.
"Hold it, please" Derek called out to the people in the elevator, mainly George and Izzie. "Thank you." The whole elevator was awkwardly silent. No one said anything, no one moved a muscle. It was an extremely tense setting.
Ding. And they all rushed to step out.
"Izzie! Patient down in the pit says he has major headaches at least 4 times a day, I want you to check up on him. O'Malley, I want you to do post op notes on all the residents on level 4, I want all this done before 6! Let's go people!" Bailey yelled out.
"Boy oh boy is the Nazi moody today" Alex said coming in behind them.
"Alex, just go away."
"Why do you all hate me so much? No need to fight over me?" he answered smugly.
"HAHA! Us 'fighting' over YOU? You gotta be kidding." Izzie, George, and Meredith answered back.
"That leaves you Karev… I guess you're sticking with me today." Bailey said in a somewhat unfortunate tone. "Aww man!.. I mean…what a wonderful opportunity to learn me some science!" Alex added.
"Don't worry, I hate you too." Bailey replied. Izzie, George, and Meredith all sniggered.
"Anyone seen Yang at all today?" Dr. Burke asked as he came out the OR washing his hands.
"I think she called in with the flu again." George answered. "Why? You need something doctor?"
"Oh no. I was just you know…wondering." And with that he…wondered off.
"WELL GET GOING!" Bailey yelled. "Oh, and Grey, Shepherd needs you in room 2833, some patient has anaphylaxis shock and he needs assistance."
This is PERFECT… Meredith thought. "I'm on it."
Beep beep beep.
"Alex, follow me and hurry." Bailey called out behind her as she ran off. "Lady in 1187 is pregnant and the baby needs to be evacuated immediately. Get prepped for a c-section."
Out of all the people. I am the one that gets to deliver a freaking baby! BOY AM I LUCKY! Alex was thinking. The Nazi REALLY does hate me. "Going Dr. Bailey…" and he trotted off angrily.
Meanwhile, Meredith is on her way down to room 2833, she notices that people are calling out orders and running around, covering the room. Oh crap!
"Meredith! Joyce Schneider, 41 year old female. Come help me. I think she may have something going on in her thyroid glands. Get her down to CT and just GO now!" Derek yelled at her right as she came running out of breath into the room.
"Right. I'm going." This is not the time to get mad at him and talk the talk, this lady's life is on the line. She thought. Meredith had never come across any thyroid scenarios in med school, nor anywhere else. "Cristina should be doing this." She mumbled to herself.
Meredith arrived at CT in all's well time, quickly prepped up the patient. "You're gonna be fine Mrs. Schneider, we've got you. We think you may have thyroid cancer, and that's probably what's causing the allergic reactions. The CT will tell us."
"Am I gonna die?" Mrs.Schneider asked nervously, her whole body shaking.
"Oh um there is a very small chance of that Mrs. Schneider, but I assure you its going to be fine." And with that a comforting smile from Meredith. "Now I need you to relax, and I'm going to put you in the scanner. I'll be over there watching." She said pointing to the glass windows.
"Alright then." Joyce replied, not so convinced, but caved in and agreed.
"OK. This won't take much time. Then we'll see if you need anything." Meredith nodded, pushed the button for the table and walked towards the windows.
"Whew. She's a tough one…" She exclaimed to the technical guy conducting the scan.
"Uh doctor! You better come see this." He gasped, pointing at the screen, which showed a perfectly healthy larynx, until you got down to the thyroid gland. The gland was almost totally destroyed.
"We need to give her a thyroid scan right away, and can you page Dr. Shepherd?" Meredith immediately ran over to poor Mrs. Schneider and got her out of the CT. "We're gonna have to give you a thyroid scan. Now. So get off the table and follow me if you would. You have what is called medullary thyroid cancer, and I think we've caught the cancer early enough to treat it. But we still need a scan."
"So I am going to die? I mean, this is CANCER. I HAVE CANCER!" Schneider yelled.
"No ma'm, I'm pretty sure you're gonna pull through this. Now please, we need to do the thyroid scan." Meredith replied, trying to calm her down. She led her into the scanning room.
"OK, I need you to swallow this radioactive iodine for the scan, and then just lay back while I take an image of your gland."
This time, Joyce obeyed without any questions and second thoughts.
"Joyce I'm terribly sorry, but you have medullary cancer and we need to operate on you immediately. So I need you to sign this consent form before we proceed with the operation." As Meredith pushed the forms on the clipboard towards the panic strucken Joyce with tears in her eyes.
Meredith then paged Dr. Shepherd, and prepped Joyce for the OR.
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Alex was in room 1187 talking to the pregnant lady, Sarah Bennett, trying to calm her and break her the news. "Mrs. Bennett, I'm afraid we're gonna have to perform a C-Section to get the baby out. Now this surgery is almost risk free and most likely you both will survive so there's nothing to worry about." And he gave her his cocky smile.
"Oh I'm sure." Sarah answered with a heavy sigh.
"OK then, let's get you ready!" Alex groaned without a hint of enthusiasm. He wanted to be scrubbing in on some big shot brain surgery, or heart surgery. Just something other than standing here doing a minor procedure. Boy was he agitated.
"AHH! Uhhh doctor!" Sarah screamed.
"What! What?"
"I….think…..I'm……. going….into….LABOR!" she yelled between gasps of breath.
"Oh crap…" Alex actually started panicking. He paged Bailey but couldn't get a hold of her. So decided to go find Burke or Shepherd or even maybe the Chief. "OK. Umm Sarah, just..breathe, I'll be back with someone." And he ran off trying to find someone. ANYONE.
Izzie was doing post op notes on all the floor patients when she saw Alex come sprinting down around the corner. "Whoa, whoa. Slow down man!"
"Stevens! I need help with this patient. She's going into labor and I don't know ANYTHING about delivering babies." He panted out.
"Well GO! Lead the way if you want my help then. I'm not going anywhere." She laughed. And followed Alex to room 1187.
