Then Lucy came with a doctor and also sat on one of the chairs "right, what happened here then?" the doctor said while hooking Maddie up to a couple of machines "well doctor, the other day she was attacked by a boy and his friends and today she was attacked by her ex-boyfriend, we don't really know what happened because when we got there Maddie was beaten up and was almost unconscious then she did become unconscious" Peter said.
The four children were starting to tear up and were trying not to cry but in the situation that they were in it was very hard. "okay, here a have all of the injuries that she had are you sure you want to hear all of them?" Doctor said, making sure that they were ready "yes" Peter said reluctantly.
"okay well she has a broken ankle, bad concussion, sprained wrist, internal bleeding, major blood loss, three broken ribs and one of the discs in her spine has moved out of place" the doctor said. Now all of the children were crying and wanted nothing more than to kill Rodrick and Thomas.
"when will she wake up?" Edmund said, shakily "a bit after surgery, I hope" the doctor said "surgery?" Lucy asked, still crying like everyone else "yes, she will have to have three different surgeries one for internal bleeding, one for the broken ribs and one for her back" the doctor replied, they nodded and Lucy started to cry a little more and hugged Susan and buried her face in Susan's chest.
"doctor, what did you mean when you said I hope" Susan asked, Peter and Edmund also wondering the same "well there is a chance that after surgery she could be in a coma or…." The doctor said then took a deep breath "she could die, if the surgery goes wrong or she isn't strong enough then she could die I am very sorry"
"okay, thankyou doctor" Peter said, he was crying a bit more now as well as everyone else but him, Edmund and Susan were trying to be strong. "well, if you would like I could go and find some nurses and the equipment to do the surgeries now" the doctor said "yes, that would be great" Susan said wanting this to be over as soon as possible.
"okay I will be back soon with everything" the doctor said then walked off to go and get what he needed. They all moved their chairs closer to Maddies bed with Susan, Edmund and Lucy on one side and Peter on the other side. Lucy was on Susan's lap and she had fallen asleep because she was crying so much. Edmund grabbed Maddies hand and tried to stop crying.
Peter put his head in his hands and started crying a little "I've been a terrible big brother" Peter said "me too" Edmund said "guys, don't beat yourselves up about it we all could have been better siblings" Susan said. The boys both nodded "from now on we should be better older siblings and stop Maddie from getting hurt okay" Peter said Edmund and Susan nodded.
Then the doctor came back in with two nurses and a trolley full of medical things "right we are ready to start so if you wouldn't mind just sitting in those chairs over there please" the doctor said pointing to some chair the other side of the curtain they all reluctantly stood up and moved over to the chairs.
Thank you for reading. So those are some pretty bad injuries and surgery :o
Hannah x