Sub- acute 2
The atmosphere in the ED was chaotic and full of strained relationships, but for Zoe Gallagher her life was chaotic and stressful, she lay on the uncomfortable trolley with her head resting against the cold lumpy hospital designer pillows, she closed her eyes trying to push the thought of her baby growing up without a dad, she looks down at her now flat stomach and runs her palm across her belly like protecting her unborn child from the world.
Charlotte sat at the nurse's station filling out paperwork on her pregnant boss, she never got on with Zoe since the first day she arrived, and when Sean died she resented her due to Zoe being his girlfriend, but on the other hand she felt compelled and sorry for her since Sean died.
He died and left her with a reminder of him something that no one else has, Charlotte feels compelled to help the pregnant doctor since her baby is the Emergency department's only last connection to Sean.
Charlotte finished her paperwork and then she remembered that Zoe didn't have a head CT scan to rule out a concussion, she goes against her patients request and orders the necessary test.
Charlotte was relieved to hear that her patient had been placed at the top of the list and is next to be scanned, Charlotte got up out of her seat and walked passed all the nurses and headed straight to the cubicle where her injured boss was placed when she was injured.
Frank walked out of his office with a smile plastered on his face, he just got off the phone with the police and the young boy's mother has just been arrested for child neglect and assault of a miner, so the father is in the clear, he walks up to Charlotte hoping to continue the trail of good news continuing.
"Hey Beaumont how is Zoey?" asks frank
"Resting the last time I checked on her but you can ask Dan he just did her vitals about ten minutes ago" says Charlotte
"Ok" says Frank
"Oh I have just ordered a head CT for Zoey and they should be ready for her know" says Charlotte glancing at her watch checking the time.
Charlotte mimed to Dan telling him to come over and help her escort Zoey to radiology, they enter the cubicle together since there boss was too eager in not having the scan.
"Hey Zoey we are here to take you for your scan" says Dan in a joyful tone.
"Look Dan I already told Charlotte that I don't need a scan" exclaims Zoe
" I know I heard you the first time but since you are a doctor and considering you other issues I have decided to override your demands and Frank agrees with me on this" says Charlotte appearing inside the cubicle standing next to Dan in an authorative stance.
" look Charlotte I am fine know I only have a headache and some nausea but we both know that could be a symptom of something else, so I say I don't need a scan on my head" theorises Zoe.
"Zoey if this was one of your patients, what would you do?" asks Charlotte stepping in to doctor mode.
"Come on Zoe just do it, if not for you then for the baby, Sean's baby" says Dan.
" fine I will do it, if it stops you two from badgering me, so you can leave me alone to sleep and get rid of this headache" says Zoe pointing to Charlotte and Dan.
"Good because radiology are waiting for us" says Charlotte moving the trolley with the help of Dan
Nurse's station
Gabrielle stood at the nurse's station filling out paperwork while the other doctors and nurses sat there gossiping, the chatter was about 3 main things one: Zoey's pregnancy two: the young boy being neglected by his mom and her pinning it on the father and three: Zoe being injured in front of the ED.
Looking around seeing all her busy hard working nurses talking about patients and life in the A&E department, she then lip reads Erica and Dan's conversation about Zoe, she saunters over to get a load of the hot juicy gossip and gets I on the conversation.
"Hey do you know we have patients waiting to be seen" says Gabrielle waving her arms pointing to the patients sat on the trolleys.
"Err yeah we were just having a chat about Zoe, and we were wondering how is she" replies Erica.
"well am sure Dan can fill you I on her condition once he has done her vitals again and checked with Charlotte for anything else that needs to be done" says Gabrielle.
"Ok am off" shouts Dan walking to Zoe's cubicle
Dan enters Zoe's cubicle, he looks to her and sees that she is asleep, he slowly walks around the bed, he places the equipment appliances on the relevant part of her upper body then he does her normal observations, after a few minutes he hears a groan coming from Zoe, he looks up and sees her eyes fluttering open.
"Hey you feeling ok Zoe" asks Dan
"Yeah just tired and nauseous" replies Zoe
"I am sorry that I woke you up I know you need your sleep but I will leave you alone in a minute" says Dan
"Oh your fine Dan I woke up because I felt like throwing up" replies Zoe in a tired voice.
"Is there anything else you want to complain about while I am here" asks Dan
"No" replies Zoe rubbing her temples trying to soothe the pain in her head.
"Are you sure" prompts Dan
"Yes and why" asks Zoe curiously.
"You are rubbing your head" says Dan pointing to her hands on her head.
"Fine I have a headache" admits Zoe
"I will find Charlotte and ask her to write up an order for some pain meds" says Dan.
"Ok" says Zoe laying her head into the warm fluffy pillows.
Dan leaves the cubicle and lets Zoe fall back into her dreamless and hopefully pain free sleep, she wishes, he heads over to the nurses station and spots charlotte at the X ray board looking at scan results.
"Hey Charlotte are they Zoe's" asks Dan
"Yeah they are clear, so she has a mild concussion and needs rest and observing "replies Charlotte.
"Can you write up some pain relief for Zoe, she is complaining of a head ache" asks Dan
"Yeah sure can you get 5 mg of paracetamol please "orders Charlotte
Dan gets the paracetamol and administers it to Zoe, he leaves her to sleep, since her boyfriend passed away everyone noticed how Zoe's behaviour had changed, she started to become emotional on some cases, and they discovered she had lack of sleep and she came into work with bags under her eyes, so sleeping for her was good and the less she was disturbed would keep cranky frank from having ago at them.