When Izzie was admitted, Hayley, being a top surgeon at that hospital, pulled some strings and managed to get her a CT scan and get her blood work done very quickly. When she was finished with her labs, Hayley took Izzie straight up to radiology for her CT.
Just before Izzie and Hayley went into radiology, someone came running up to them shouting Izzie's name. It was Mike.
"Mike! Oh I'm so glad you're here!"Izzie said, hugging Mike over the edge of her gurney.
"I'm sorry, I got here as soon as I heard! How's Taylor?"Mike asked stroking Izzie's head in compassion.
"Oh he'll be okay, as long as we get this surgery over and done with soon enough!"Izzie said to Mike who looked extremely concerned.
"Well that's good! I'm so proud of you for doing this for him! You're amazing you know that?"Mike said kissing Izzie on the forehead.
"Thanks, but I know that Tay'd do the same thing for me so it's really not a big deal!"Izzie said giggling.
"Okay, we've gotta get going in here, and I'm sorry but you can't come in. Feel free to get some coffee or whatever you want and I'll let you know when were finished! Okay?"Hayley said as she wheeled Izzie into radiology, and Mike nodded in agreement and started down the hall towards the elevators.
Mike went down to the cafeteria, got some coffee and then sat with Taylor until Izzie was done upstairs.
A few hours later, Hayley had cleared Izzie for surgery and she and Taylor had been admitted to the surgical wing and been booked in for surgery the next day.
"Wow. I still can't believe that tomorrow I'm gonna be going through major surgery! But I guess it's totally worth it if it means that Taylor's gonna be okay." Izzie had been saying the same thing for the last half hour and Hayley and Mike were getting a bit sick of hearing it.
"Iz, sweetie, we know you're a bit overwhelmed and all but could you please stop going on about it?!?" Mike told Izzie, who didn't look happy.
"Fine then! But it's just so ..."Izzie stopped herself quite suddenly when she saw the piercing look that Hayley and Mike were giving her.
Hayley and Mike both exploded with laughter when they saw the terrified look on Izzie's face, even the nurse that was taking her blood pressure giggled a little. They were all in fits of laughter when suddenly...
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
Taylor was crashing.
Nurse Olivia jumped up and pressed the code button while Hayley went outside to help the code team with the crash trolley.
"CHARGE TO 200, CLEAR!" BOMF!
"What's happening? Why are you doing that? What's wrong, WHAT'S WRONG!?!?!?!?!" Izzie started to cry again and Mike tried to comfort her while Hayley and Olivia continued to shock Taylor.
"CHARGE TO 360, CLEAR!" BOMF!... BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP ...
"Okay, he should be stable for now. Thank you everyone." Hayley told the code team as they wheeled out the crash trolley.
"Iz, Izzie, he's okay now!" Hayley told Izzie who was crying harder than ever.
"He ...he almost d...died! He c...can't die!" Izzie said, trying hard to string any kind of words together.
" Izzie, listen to me! He's okay, you hear me? He's okay!" Hayley explained repeatedly until Izzie started to calm down.
"Iz listen to me, he's in really bad shape so nurse Olivia has called an emergency OR and if you'll agree, we need to get you and Taylor to surgery right now."Hayley explained to Izzie who looked terrified at the thought.
"Will he die if I don't?"Izzie asked Hayley while trembling with fear.
"Yeah Iz, he'll die."Izzie started to cry again but nodded insecurely, which Hayley took as a yes to the surgery.
"Izzie, you're making the right decision. Olivia, page Dr Karev and Dr Bailey and tell them to get up here and prep these two patients for surgery right now."Hayley instructed nurse Olivia who rushed to the nurse's station and began paging the surgical team.