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Chapter 9 The Recovery continues:

from this chapter on Hank and Booth have know been honorary discharged from the army and will be known by there names.

I also have no medical knowledge what so ever, anything that happens from this chapter on will be from me . Just remember this is fiction so anything can happen .

So on with the story

Two weeks later Washington DC Military hospital

Seeley Booth & Hank letrell were going through the pre-assessment examinations to be admitted the the hospital, Booth was on a gurney and sitting up as best as he could with the bed bars up so he would not fall out and Hank was in his wheelchair next to him. Off in the distance a doctor was in conversation with a nurse beside her.

When Booth and Hank spotted her walking towards them they had a big grin on both there faces.

She was very tall and had long brown auburn hair and crystal blue eyes.

When the doctor arrived in front of them she introduced herself.

"Hi you must be Seeley Booth and Hank letrell my name is Dr Temperance Brennan I will be in-charge of you care while you are at this hospital and this is nurse Trudy she will be doing your daily checks".

Dr Temperance Brennan was only a intern at this hospital so she could get her doctorate for her true passion which was forensic anthropology so she was only going to be there for another year so Booth and Hank was her last case.

The nurse was now getting Booth and Hank settled into there new room,Booth still had his monitoring equipment and Iv's which were administering his pain killers and antibiotics and Hank had the same,when they were settled Dr Brennan came into the room.

"hello again gentle men have you settled in fine"

"Yes Dr Brennan " Booth replied with a smirk on his face.

"Yes Dr Brennan " replied Hank with a smile on his face because at the time he was looking at Booth.

Just then Booth spoke up.

"hey Doc do they have pudding cups in this joint"asked Booth

beside him Hank was laughing.

"I'm sorry Booth but you are not well enough for solids at the moment maybe in a couple of weeks, then we shall see how's that".

With that Booth sulk for the rest of the day.

A couple of hours later Hank and Booth got bored and decided to play cards.

"hey Booth fancy a game of poker"

"h3ll yeah, it will break this damn boredom I have, where did you get the cards from anyway," " I brought them with me from the camp".

So Hank threw his blankets back from his bed and manoeuvred himself to the edge of the bed and very carefully lowered himself into his chair as he was not used to it yet.

Hank was now in his chair and pushing himself over to Booth's bed and lowered the bed table so he could reach , then started to deal the cards for him and Booth.

Just then the Dr Brennan and nurse Trudy walked into the room.

"Mr Letrell what are you doing out of bed" "come on doc I was only playing cards with Booth " "back in your bed now" "spoilsport"

beside him Booth started laughing at him.

" I don't know what your laughing at Mr Booth ,you shouldn't be encouraging him " ," I can see I am going to have problems with you too, perhaps I should separate you ." come on doc we'll behave "

"right nurse Trudy can you do Mr Letrell vitals check while I will Mr Booths. a few minutes later all the examinations were done.

" well Mr Booth your vitals are stable enough , so I think we can remove all the monitoring equipment now and everything is looking fine , I want to do a x-ray so I can see how your legs and feet are healing." Dr Brennan told Booth.

" thanks Dr Brennan , when do you think I can start eating solid foods " Dr Brennan knew were this was going.

"I'm sorry Booth you are still not ready for solids yet"

With that said Booth was again in a sulking mood.

A few hours later an orderly came and wheeled Booth to the x-ray department, it took about half an

hour to get all the x-rays done that Dr Brennan requested , when they were finished the orderly came back to take Booth back to his room.

Dr Brennan was now looking at the x-rays on her computer, she could see some of the repair work the doctors did back at his base camp on his legs, but with the limited resources they had they did not line up probably and she also noticed some tendon damage on his calf muscles in both legs. she was now looking at the x-rays of his feet both feet showed some healing but not what she hoped.

Dr Brennan was now leaving her office and making her way to Booth and Hanks room. She was now at there room and entering and walked straight over to Booths bed.

"well Booth I have some good news and bad news which do you want first "she asked.

"good news " Booth replied

" well the x-rays on you feet are quit good there is some healing but it is very slow going by the last x-rays we did of them" she told Booth, "what is the bad news then" he asked.

"The x-rays on your legs have me worried, there seems to be no healing what so ever I think it is because when they were repaired your legs at your base camp they did not line them up correctly which basically means I will have to operate on them, I will have to re-break both fibula bones on both legs then re-line them and pin them so they can heal correctly. I'm sorry Booth I wish I had better news for you."

The following week Booth was scheduled for his surgery it took Dr Brennan about 4 hours to repair and pin Booths legs back in-line and close him up .

Booth was now in recovery but something was wrong he was not waking up it seems he had slipped into a coma. Dr Brennan went to check Booth medical records to see if there any mention of any problems with anesthesia but she found nothing, she could only guess at the time he was at the base camp he was not under for very long for his repairs. So Dr Brennan had Booth moved to ICU. Now Brennan had another new problem to contend with, she had to wait for Booth to wake up.

To be continued:

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