Chapter 1 Jan 1st 2013 2:32 am

Troy wakes up he feels awful Jake stumbles out of his room half asleep and the looks at Troy and sees he is sick,

Jake- Troy are you ok bro

Troy- no not really, I feel awful, oh!!!!!!

Troy groans in pain, Jake feels Troy's forehead it is warm to the touch

Jake- Troy I'm taking you to the hospital,

Troy- I'm cold Jake turn the heat up please I'm freezing

Jake gets his cell phone out and calls Kim's house Rocky picks up he is awake with Kim and Gia helping with the quads when the phone rings

Rocky- (walks down the stairs) who is calling at near 3 o clock in the damn morning, (picks up the phone) Hello?

Jake- is Kim there,

Rocky- Jake, do you know what time it is

Jake- Rocky, Troy is very ill

Rocky- Kim!!!

Kim hurries down the stairs in her pajamas she takes the phone

Rocky- it's Jake, Troy is sick

Kim- Jake what's wrong with Troy?

Jake- he has a fever, and he said he is cold he is shivering he is wrapped up in a blanket, and he is sweating, I am going to take...

Kim- me and Rocky are on the way there now (hangs up phone) c'mon Rocky grab the keys

Rocky and Kim get in Rocky's truck and they race over to Troy and see that Troy is in very bad shape

Kim- Troy,

she rushes with her medical bag and quickly takes his temperature with a ear thermometer, it reads 104.6 F

Kim- 104.6!!!!!!!

Rocky- we better get him to the hospital now we'll take him by my truck

Rocky and Jake carry Troy to Rocky's Truck Kim gets in the backseat with him, Rocky gets in the driver's seat and they drive to Amber Beach Memorial Medical Center Kim calls Kat who is on the night shift she is asleep at the E.R. desk when her cell phone rings

Kat- hello,

Kim- Kat, get a trauma team ready stat! Troy is violently ill, I am just entering the hospital parking lot

Kat- ok Kim,

Kat hangs up and rouses Dr. Susan Lewis, Lauren and Cristy, and they head out to the ambulance bay where Rocky has just pulled

up, they get the stretcher out and Troy is getting worse by the second,

Kat- Troy, can you hear me?

Troy throws up, he is shivering

Troy- I... so... cold...

they rush Troy to trauma 1 where they feverishly work to get his temperature down, Kim still on maternity leave waits with Rocky on the E.R. waiting room

Cristy- Temp is 105.1!!!

Kat- ok do a full alcohol rubdown, and start pumping I.V. fluids now!!!

they quickly draw blood for the lab and put I.V.s in and in a few minutes his temperature went down to 103.9 but it's still too high as far as Kat is concerned, she orders the bloodwork to be done stat as the results are brought to her Dr. Jesse Travis rushes in to help

Dr. Travis- Kat what do we got, oh no

Kat- labs are coming in now, Temp was 105.1 but we knocked it down to 103.8

the lab reports come in and the diagnosis is made

Kat- severe viral infection, ok start him on antibiotics now and...

then Troy starts having trouble breathing he is gasping for braleath I'll

Dr. Travis- 15 liters Oxygen now!

Troy is put on a oxygen mask and his pulse ox level stableizes quickly

Kat- Ok let's get him to I.C.U. stat!!!!!!!

as Dr. Travis and them get Troy to I.C.U. Kat goes to the waiting room where Kim and Rocky await with anxiety,

Kat- guys

Rocky- how is Troy

Kat- he has a severe viral infection, we are taking him to I.C.U. we started him on antibiotics and it's in the the early stages so we caught it so...

Kim- ok Kat, can we see Troy.

Kat- sure,

Kat, Kim, and Rocky go to I.C.U. and head to Troy's room, they are shocked when they find him on a ventilator

Kim- Cristy, what happened?

Cristy- we had to protect his airway, Dr. Travis did it as a precaution,

Troy is unconscious, but he is stable, for the antibiotics to work the desicion is made is to put him in a medically induced coma, for the first 5 days of 2013 Troy is closely monitored by the I.C.U team on the 6th day Troy shows signs of improvement, on the the seventh day the antibiotics have knocked out the viral infection, Troy is off the ventilator and breathing on his own

Day 8, 11:59 AM Kim and Rocky have took the Quads to their 1 month check up they enter Troy's room, seeing that Troy is still asleep

Kim- he's still asleep,

Rocky- well he beat the infection

as Rocky gets the quads in with their stroller Kim grabs Troy's hand and when she grabs his hand he grips it

Kim- honey, Troy grabbed my hand

Rocky- Troy, buddy grab my hand

Troy grabs Rocky's hand, as Noah, Jake, Emma and Orion get off the elevator and find Kat running to Troy's room,

Noah- uh oh,

Jake- please no

they start running to Troy's room, thinking Troy is dying and when they get there Noah,Jake and Orion stop but Emma can't because she is wearing roller skates, them and enters Troy's room, he sees Troy has just woke up from his coma

Kat- Troy, welcome back

Troy- what happened to me?

Kim- you had a viral infection Troy, we had to put you in a medically induced coma,

Troy- today's new years eve,

Rocky- Troy today is January 8th

Troy- January 8th? i missed New Year's

Kat- you are lucky to be alive, Jake saved your life

Troy- Jake saved my life, that makes

Jake- i just called Kim and she and Rocky got there and they took you to the hospital,

Kim- you saved him Jake,

Jake- i can't take all the credit,

Then a huge crash happens outside,

Troy- what was that?

Orion looks outside,

Orion- Emma just wiped out on her roller skates

Troy- roller skates, oh boy

the end