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Chapter 2:
Carter then woke up the next morning, looked at the clock which read 10 A.M. and then he popped right up out of bed, scrambled with his clothes and work bag in a major hurry cause he had overslept and was now a hour late to work.
Once ready and racing out the door without breakfast and no time to eat, he also noticed that the dull throbbing pain was still in his back and left side but he tried to ignore it as he drove his jeep to the hospital parking lot, while Carter was on his way he'd thought of calling the E.R. to tell Kerry Weaver why he was so late for shift but decided not to because he figured that whether over the phone or face to face Kerry would chew him out either way no matter what the excuse he said of the situation.
When he pulled into the hospital parking lot, grabbed his stuff locked the car and ran through the ambulance bay to the E.R. entrance doors, he stops at the front desk with nobody around except for Dr. Deb Chen treating a patient near the desk, she looks up sees him then back helping the patient. Carter bag in hand starts to head to the lounge to put his stuff away when he starts to suddenly get lightheaded and dizzy but still continues walking not noticing the wet floor when taking his next step, loosing footing he slips on the shiny surface and falls down hard flat on his back and once again the searing, excruciating back and left back side pain along with fire sensation returns. He can feel his head hit the floor, he then lays there not moving, eyes closed hoping the pain to stop and after a few seconds it then lessens to a painful constant throbbing in his back. Carter still on the floor his eyes closed for a bit, and then he opens them and sees her above him.
Deb: "John, are you okay?"
Deb: "John don't move, Malik can I get a gurney over here" she says to him who's standing near by, he starts to go get one.
The pain still hurts but isn't bad enough, and he thinks that he could try to stand and start walking like nothing happened, still in terrible pain and not telling anyone. As Carter is getting up to stand as well as he can, he then begins walking away from the admin. desk but only after he gets a few steps away.
Deb: "Carter, wait you shouldn't be moving yet until..." she yells to him. Carter ignores her yelling and continues walking away.
Deb starts to quickly follow him, trying to get him to talk to her, she then catches up and stops in front of him, she looks at him and he looks at her and says.
Carter: "No, Deb I'm okay" "I just slipped on the wet floor" "Nothing broken, I'm good" he says still standing and then beginning to walk to the lounge, while hiding the pain he's in at this time.
Deb: "Are you sure you're okay?" "You should probably get checked over"
Carter: "I'm really okay" he yells back to her over his shoulder. Then she walks again to catch up with him to talk while he is walking down the hall. Now she is walking beside him at the same pace.
Deb: "Really?"
Carter: "Yeah, I'm fine" he says lying. And they begin walking together as she starts a conversation about a patient while Carter is on his way to the lounge.
Deb: "So I have this patient and..."
She is now telling him about a patient's case she has. She continues talking and then Carter gets the dizzy feeling again, but before he can say anything he collapses, falling to the floor motionless. Deb is still walking and talking not knowing that he's not right by her. Then she says something to him.
Deb: "So Carter what do you think?" she says and gets no response back so she then looks behind her and sees Carter not moving, lying on the floor, his eyes closed but still breathing. Deb rushes over to Carter kneeling down to check him over.
Deb: "Carter?" no response, she shines her penlight in his eyes and they respond to it. Susan then walks out of an near by exam room, and she sees Deb Chen on the floor near someone and doesn't think anything of it until she then looks over and sees that it's John.
Susan: "Carter" she says to herself. She then decides to go over to Deb and help with John on the floor.
Susan: "What happened?"
Deb: "He fell down near the admin. desk a few minutes ago, hit his back hard on the floor and his eyes were closed for a few minutes, then he opened them and started to get up and stand, he seemed like he was fine." "I asked him if he was okay." "He said he was fine, he got up and then started walking with me" "We were talking about a patient and I asked him something, he didn't respond so I turned around, he was a few feet behind me and lying on the floor." "After the first fall he said he didn't need a check over, that he was fine then just now he collapsed, he's breathing, not moving, but pupils are responsive to light."
Susan: "Alright let's get him on a gurney into a trauma room" "Malik, I need a backboard, neck brace and gurney over here"
Malik: "Got it" he comes over to them with everything that was asked for.
Malik: "Carter?" He says looking concerned the same as his fellow doctor colleagues.
Deb: "He just dropped to the floor..."
She looks up at Frank, while positioning the gurney to put Carter on it.
Deb: "Frank, what's open?"
Frank: "Trauma 1"
Frank: "What happened to Carter?"he says seeing Carter lying unconscious on the floor.
Susan, Deb and Malik help lift Carter onto the gurney, and then heads down the hall
Deb: "We don't no Frank?" "Don't know?" "We're heading to Trauma 1"
Susan: "Frank, page Kovac, Lockhart and Weaver STAT to Trauma 1" she says over her shoulder to Frank at the admin. desk. While Malik, herself on Carter's right side and Deb the left are all running and pushing the gurney to the awaiting trauma room.
Frank: "Got it, paging them now" he yells to them as their leaving.