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Connie returned to the ward a little while later with Dylan and they began discussing Emma's condition.
"Pregnant? UTI?" Asked Dylan
"The urine dip test was an AD and HTG was negative" Connie told him
"So it could be ectopic?" Dylan said and Connie nodded
"Okay let's scan her" Dylan said.
"Great that's why I was thinking, Thankyou Dylan" Connie said
Dylan left the room and Connie walked over to Emma's bed.
"What does all that mean" Emma asked
"Just that we need to run some more tests" Connie told her
"You little lady I can't believe how tall you've gotten and you look so grown up with that makeup on" Connie said smiling at Anna and Anna gave her a smile back.
"And Gracie you look fantastic in that outfit" Connie said to her younger daughter.
Grace smiled and turned to Emma
"Em bought it for me" Grace said and Emma smiled at her.
"Lovely" Connie said trying not to sound annoyed.
"And you still haven't told me what your doing here in holby"
The girls looked at each other awkwardly before Grace spoke.
"Daddy's giving a talk" Grace said.
"There's a three day medical conference" Emma said to Connie.
"Yes the cardiotharasics of course" Connie said
"Grace have you told daddy we're here?" Emma asked and Grace and Anna looked up from their phones.
"I forgot to call him" Grace said
"Why don't you go do that now Angel we wouldn't want him tow worry, Anna will go with you" said Emma and the girls nodded before getting up and leaving.
"Mums being so nice I don't get it" Grace said to her sister as they walked to reception.
"What do you mean" Anna asked
"Well she hates us doesn't she" Grace said
"No she doesn't why would you think that" Anna asked though she had a feeling she knew the answer
"Well she sent us to New York which means she didn't want us"
"It's doesn't mean she didn't want us, she just wanted us to be happy I guess" Anna said trying to convince her sister to stop her hate campaign on her mum.
"Well you've suddenly started to like mum, I thought you hated her too?" Grace said getting annoyed at her big sister.
"I never hated her Grace not really, and our shouldn't hate her either" Anna said before walking away, trying to stop Grace hating Connie seemed to be a lot tougher than she thought.
Anna walked outside and sat down an on the bench. She knew she was mostly to blame for Grace hating Connie, Grace was right she had hated Connie at some point but in the year she had been away from her mum that hate had disappeared and now she just wanted to be with her mum. However now Grace hated Connie and Anna had no idea how she was going to make Grace's hate disappear.
Anna sighed before getting up and heading back inside. When she walked in Grace came running over to her.
"I'm sorry for getting annoyed at you" Grace said sweetly.
"It's fine, I'm your big sister your meant to get annoyed with me" Anna said jokingly and Grace laughed.
"Did you phone your dad?" Anna asked and Grace nodded.
"You know I love you" Grace said hugging her big sister
"I love you too" Anna said putting her arm round Grace and the two walked back to the ward.
They arrived back at the ward where they found Emma getting a scan done. Connie looked at her girls as they walked in before turning her attention back to the scan.
"Your uterus and tubes are good and there's no sign of an ectopic pregnancy" Connie said to Emma and she nodded.
"Are you generally fit and well, no run of disease in the family ?" Connie asked Emma.
"No, although my mother maybe, she died when I was little so I don't know much about her side of the family if I'm honest" Emma said and Grace held Emma's hand
"Bps 189 over 187" Robyn said to Connie.
"Have you ever been told you have high blood pressure" Connie said to Emma and Emma shook her head.
"Well you should have, sorry I need to examine you again"
"Are you a smoker?" Asked Connie
"Off and on, usually when IBS flares up" Emma said
Connie turned to look at Jacob
"I can feel a pulsatile mass" she said to him.
She turned back to Emma and felt her fingers before turning back to Jacob.
"No sign of a collective tissue disorders but heavy sign of an abdominal aortic aneurysm" Connie said to him concerned
"A triple A?" He said surprised
"What is that" Emma asked looking confused
"Something someone of your age shouldn't have" said Connie and Emma looked nervous
"I suspect the artery in your abdomen is enlarged and possibly leaking" Connie told her
"But she's feeling better" said Grace and Anna out her arm round her sister.
"That's because we're helping her sweetheart, we just need to find out what's making her sick" Connie said softly as she could see her little girls were scared.
Connie turned back to Jacob
"Let's send her off for a CT" but she was cut short by someone at the door.
"Thankyou but that won't be necessary" Sam said walking in.
"Dad" Grace said as she ran towards him but Anna stayed put.
"Hello darling" Sam said hugging his daughter
"Connie" Sam said
Sam and Connie began clashing heads not long after about Emma's treatment, Sam didn't want his girlfriend being treated under the NHS and so left to go and phone a private ambulance. However this was Connie's patient and she wasn't going to let Sam come in and push her around so continued on with her treatment while Sam went and made his phone call.
Connie and Jacob left taking Emma up to her CT and Anna and Grace stayed in the hospital room. A little while later Sam returned to find Anna and Grace alone.
"Where is everyone?" He asked.
"They took Emma for a scan" Anna said.
"What they can't do that" Sam said annoyed.
"All ready did your heinous" Jacob said as he returned into the room followed by Emma and the rest of the staff treating her.
"Connie I have an ambulance on its way" Sam said
"She's not going anywhere" Connie told him handing him the scan.
Sam looked at the scan before walking over to Emma and taking her hand
"They're going to have to operated darling" he told her
"How soon can you get her into surgery" Sam asked
"Soon as we can" Connie told him.
Not long later jac Naylor arrived having heard Sam was back and it was shortly after that Emma started to deteriorate. Sam was loosing patience so decided to try and phone some operating friends to come and operate on Emma but his luck was out.
"Can't you do it?" Anna said.
" I can't operate on my own girlfriend darling, besides I'm a heart surgeon" Sam said
Anna sighed before getting up out the chair
" I wasn't talking to you I was talking to mum" Anna said looking hopefully at Connie.
"I'm at heart surgeon sweetheart like Sam, we can't do this is we make a mistake"
"You won't make a mistake" Anna said cutting her short
"Look sweetheart I just can't take the risk" Connie said walking over to her daughter.
"Please mum, I never ask your for anything" Anna pleaded
"We're just going to have to wait" Connie said stroking her daughters hair.
"She can't wait any longer" Grace shouted before Anna had a chance to reply and Connie sighed.
"You don't care that she's in pain" Grace said
"That's not true" said Connie
"All you care about is your precious job that's why we didn't want you to know we were here, it wasn't dads decision or Emma's it was ours, we don't want to see you because we hate you" shouted Grace.
"Grace that's enough" Anna told her sister and Grace turned away from Connie.
"I'm sorry" Connie said before leaving the room.
Her little girls hated her and Connie had no idea how to fix that, no idea at all.
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