Dislaimer: the usual thing applies, but hopefully if I am good I can get it for summer.
Chapter 4: "To help me sleep"
He walked briskly to the men's bathroom, he made sure the door was closed and no-one was around, rolled up his sleeve, placed the tourniquet around his forearm, waited what could only be the longest moments of his life until a vein came up, and injected the narcotic, just as he had been doing since they had been taken from him.
Luka exited the men's bathroom; he quickly deposited the used needle and tourniquet into the nearest bin, careful that no one had seen him. He walked briskly to the admit desk, feeling slightly calmer as the narcotic began to take effect in his system.
"Have the labs come back on the boy in exam 2?" Luka asked Randi. She popped her gum and handed him the page he was looking for.
"Thanks" he said as he scanned the results.
"Brilliant" he said in a sarcastic tone, the young boy had lung cancer, if they were lucky they could start him with treatment within the next few days.
"Good afternoon", Luka shook hands with Mrs. Burrow, "I have the results of Andrew's tests", Luka took a deep breath, "The x-rays showed some dark patches on his lungs, this indicated that Andrew has Lung Cancer", Mrs. Burrow let out a cry and grabbed Andrews hand as he began to cry, "I believe that we have caught it early and with treatment he should make a full recovery, I'm very sorry, someone from oncology should be down to speak with you about treatment soon", with that said Luka got up and left the exam room, he made it about 2 feet from the door when Mrs. Burrows came up behind him.
"Excuse me, Doctor" Luka turned around and was about to ask if she had any questions the doctor from oncology would be down soon when, right on the jaw that got punched earlier, she bitch-slapped him in front of everyone and admit, and all the patients at triage.
"You've made a mistake, Andy never gets sick!" she shouted before she fell to the ground crying hysterically to which Mark Greene came over.
"I am very sorry mam, come over here and try and relax" Mark said as he guided her back into exam 2 while giving Luka a look that meant, Don't ever do that again!
Luka rubbed his sore jaw and just walked over to admit and picked up a new chart.
Luka was just suturing a drunks head lac when, Mark Greene came through the door.
"Hey, I was wondering if I could talk to you about what happened earlier today"
"She just found out her son had lung cancer and…" Luka was interrupted by Mark;
"No…I mean in the trauma earlier today with the little girl" at this statement Luka face went pale and he dropped the instruments her was using to the floor.
"Are you Okay?" ask Mark now clearly concerned, he took a step forward and laid a hand of Luka's shoulder, feeling a slight tremble.
"Ah…ah…yeah, yeah…I need to get another suture kit" with that he brushed past Mark and went out the door, Mark following close behind.
"You know you can tell me what it is, it will stay between the two of us?"
"There's nothing to tell" with that Luka walked back inside the suture room. Mark thought about going after him and demanding to know what it was, but decided to leave it for now.
When Luka's shift was over he let out a sigh of relief, it had been a stressful day, all he wanted to do was go home, fall on his bed and not wake up until his alarm the next morning; of course he knew this was going to be impossible, so he went to the lounge grabbed his coat out of his locker and left through the ambulance bay doors.
He was walking along, about to go up the steps to the El platform when a thought hit him,
I could just take some pills; help me get a few hours rest…but no I've already left, if I go back now they'll get suspicious.
It only occurred to Luka now that he was standing outside of a bar, he hesitated a moment and then pushed the door open and stepped inside.
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