THE DAY JUST WENT FROM BAD TO WORSE
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Chapter 12
The ambulances responded quickly and got to the park within ten minutes. Once they got to the teens location and found them laying on the ground next to each other unresponsive the men went stright to work on getting them loaded and transported to the hospital. Once the teens were taken there Kimberly was immeaditely taken into the trauma area as it was clear that her injuries were serious. Tommy was taken to a regular hospital room to be treated.
Tommy woke up in his hospital room a few hours later. Right away he called his parents and then the other rangers. Everyone seemed to be on their way. Needing information on Kimberly, Tommy pressed the call button beside his bed.
As the nurse came in she seemed surprised to actually find him awake. "Well hi young man. Did you need something?"
"Yes I do. The young woman I came in with, Kimberly Heart, how is she? Where is she?" he demanded. It both calmed and frightened him to wake up and not find her beside him. Calm because he knew they were at the hospital and she was being treated with whatever her body was experiencing and fightened because he didn't know where she was. If something happened to her he wouldn't be there to help her.
"Mr.." she started
"Oliver. My name is Tommy Oliver. Now where is she?" Tommy asked again
"I am not sure where she is in the hospital right now. I can call around but you must understand this may take time. If the doctors are still treating her than their focus will be her and not to stop just to answer my questions."
"But you will try?" he asked
"I will. I just don't know how long it will take to get the information for you. It may be for family only. Are you family?"
Feeling insulted he said "That girl will be my wife in the near future. If that doesn't make me family I don't know what will."
"Well that is good enough for me. I will return when I have the information for you." She turned to leave but she heard Tommy ask. "Is everything okay with me?"
She turned around once more and smiled "Yes sir. You have some brusing on your one side but that should heal quickly and if everything goes good you should be out of here within the next day or two." At that she left the room.
It was then that everyone entered his room. His parents and the fellow rangers. Tommy told them what he could. Making up the story that he didn't know why but he had been kidnapped with Kim and somehow escaped. His parents were worried but didn't press for more information.
"How is Kim" asked Jason
All eyes seemed to be on Tommy as everyone in that room was desperate to hear the information on her condition. All he could say is "I don't know Jase. But I pray she makes it as she didn't look good. She kept throwing up blood and she was in so much pain I'm surprised she tried as hard as she did to try to hide it from me."
"Well I am staying here until I find out how she is" said Kat. Everyone quickly agreed and they all found a place to sit and wait for the news.
A few hours later a doctor came into Tommy's room breaking up the easy conversation that was going on between everyone. Tommy all at once got annoyed with the doctor when he saw him and said "I don't want any medicine or anything. I want to know how Kimberly Heart is doing."
"Well that is good" said the doctor. "I am not here to treat you. I was told that you wanted that information on Miss Heart and I am the one who can give you that. I'm her doctor. Dr. Gene Benson."
He held out his hand for Tommy to shake and once they did shake hands the doctor started to disclose Kim's information. What they were about to hear was going to truly shock them. "I treated Miss Heart for a condition called a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. This is a serious condition and since she was not brought in when it happened it increased the severe pain she was already in and also caused the dizziness and the vomiting. She also had some internal bleeding which is probably why she was vomiting up blood."
In a small voice Tommy asked "What exactly is an ruptured ectopic pregnancy?"
"A ectopic pregnancy is a pregnancy that occurs outside a woman't uterus. In Miss Hearts case her's was in her fallopian tube. Since it ruptured and she was unable to come in right away when it happened she needed surgery to remove the entire fallopian tube because it was damaged. This condition is extremely life threatening but I am happy to say she was brought in before it needed to come to that. While we were in there we were also able to repair the internal bleeding. She is in recovery right now but you all need to hold off on visiting for the next few hours. I will have someone come in and let you know when you can see her."
"How far along was she doctor?" asked Mrs. Oliver
"Six weeks" said Tommy
Both the doctor and Tommy's mom looked right over at Tommy. "That is correct Mr. Oliver. How did you know?"
"Because that was they only time we were together and that baby could not have been anyone elses but mine" said Tommy sadly.