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Chapter 9: New Year Emergency

Chandler lay on his bed bundled up in the comforter as he lay curled up on his side. He had been feeling horrible from the moment that he had awoken that morning. It was New Years Eve and they had planned a small party with a few friends and some of their co-workers while Daniel spent the night with Monica's parents. When he woke up with a severe stomach ache though, Monica wanted to cancel it. He convinced her not to; he was sure that he could get through the night.

Chandler slowly opened his eyes when he heard the bedroom door open. He tried to smile when he saw Daniel slowly creeping towards the bed.

"Daddy," he whispered.

"Hey, buddy." He smiled at him as he climbed up beside him.

"Are you feeling better?"

"A little bit. Where's your mom?"

"She's packing my bag for tonight. She told me not to come in here, but I wanted to read to you." He opened a book that he had brought in with him.

"You're going to read that whole book to me?"

"I know a few words." Daniel started reading and stumbling through the pages as Chandler fought to keep his eyes open.

Chandler awoke when he felt someone gently shaking him. He blinked his eyes open as he saw Monica standing over him. She smiled at him as she felt his forehead and he saw Daniel climbing off the bed.

"You're hot." Monica told him.

"Well thank you." Chandler mumbled.

"I'm glad to see that your sense of humor isn't gone." She smiled at him. "Ross and I are leaving to take Daniel to my parents' now. Joey's out in the living room if you need anything."

"All right."

"Bye, daddy." Daniel told him.

"Bye, buddy. Have fun tonight."

"Just try to stay in bed while we're gone." Monica told him. "We'll see how you're doing when we get back."

"Ok." Chandler mumbled as Monica walked out with Daniel, shutting the door behind her.

She walked out and saw that Phoebe and Rachel had joined Joey in the living room. They were all watching TV as they had some snacks.

"How is he?" Ross asked from the kitchen.

"Not any better." Monica told him as she grabbed Daniel's overnight bag. "Just please keep an eye on him while we're gone, guys."

"Not a problem." Phoebe told her. "Are we cancelling the party?"

"He says that he'll be fine, but I don't think he will. I'll see how he is when I get back." Monica walked out with Ross and Daniel.

The three of them had only been gone for ten minutes when the others heard a loud noise coming from Monica and Chandler's bedroom. Joey went to investigate and opened the door to find Chandler on the floor writhing in pain.

"Dude, what's the matter?" Joey knelt down beside him.

"God, this hurts so much!" Chandler yelled out and Rachel and Phoebe came in behind Joey.

"Ok. I'm taking you to the hospital." Joey started to stand him up with Phoebe's help.

"I'll go with you." Phoebe told him.

"I'll stay here." Rachel told them. "I'll call everyone and let them know that the party is cancelled and try to get a hold of Monica. Call me when you know what's going on."

"We need to go now." Joey said as Chandler screamed out again.

The drive to Long Island seemed to last forever for Monica. She wanted to get back to Chandler; she knew there was more wrong with him than a simple stomach ache. Ross started to knock on their parents' door when it burst open and Jack pulled them inside.

"You need to call home." He looked at Monica. "Rachel's been calling here the last hour."

"Is it Chandler?" Monica went to the phone and dialed her number as Ross took Daniel to see Judy and some of their relatives that were there.

"She didn't tell me anything. She just said you had to call as soon as you got here."

"Rachel, what's going on?" Monica spoke into the phone. "Do they know what's wrong with him? All right. We're on our way back now."

"What's going on?" Ross came up to her as she hung up the phone.

"Joey and Phoebe took Chandler to the hospital. They're still running tests to find out what's wrong with him."

"Ok. Let's go." Ross went to tell his mom good bye as Monica went to Daniel.

"Honey, I have to go now." She kissed his forehead.

"Is daddy ok?"

"The doctors are fixing him up. I'm going to stay with him, and you're going to stay here with everyone."

"But I want to go with you."

"You'll be very bored waiting around the hospital with us." She told him as she picked him up. "But if you stay here, you'll get to stay up late watching the ball drop on TV, and Grandpa might even let you try some grown up champagne."

"We'll have fun." Jack came over to them. "And I'm sure once they know what's wrong with your dad, your mom will call and let us know. And once you're able to visit him, we'll take you down to see him." Jack told him.

"Ok." Daniel reluctantly went to Jack.

"Besides, Auntie May is here." Jack told him. "She made your favorite cookies, and I think she brought you a little something."

"Oh," Daniel got down and ran into the living room.

"Come on. Let's go." Ross started to pull her towards the door again.

"Call as soon as you know what's going on." Jack told them. "No matter what time it is."

"We will." Monica told him as they rushed out of the house and back out to the car.

Chandler lay curled on his side in a private exam room as he tried to ease the pain in his stomach. Joey and Phoebe stood off to the side as a doctor came in.

"Mr. Bing," he opened a chart. "How are you feeling?"

"He's getting worse." Joey stated. "Can you help him at all?"

"I need to ask him some questions first."

"He's in too much pain to answer them." Phoebe stated. "We might be able to answer them for him."

"Ok. Do you know when this started?"

"He woke up with a stomach ache this morning. It got steadily worse that last few hours."

"Mr. Bing, what are your symptoms right now?"

"Nauseous." Chandler managed to get out.

"I need to examine you now. You need to lie on your back."

"It hurts too much," he mumbled.

"Chandler, you need to do this." Joey told him. "Just let him examine you."

"Fine," Chandler slowly rolled onto his back and screamed out as the doctor pressed onto his lower stomach.

"What's wrong with him?" Joey demanded.

"It could be a number of things; kidney stone, an ulcer, appendicitis…"

"Well, find out what it is. Run some tests or something."

"We'll take him down for a CT scan so we can find out for certain what's wrong with him."

A nurse came in and started to help push the bed out of the room. Joey and Phoebe slowly followed as they saw Rachel rushing down the hall.

"Monica's on her way back." She told them. "I left a note on the door for all the party guests. What's going on?"

"They're taking him down for a CT scan to find out what's wrong." Phoebe told her.

Monica and Ross rushed into the hospital and ran to the nearest nurses' station. Monica had demanded that she drive back and went well over the speed limit to make it back sooner rather than later. Monica got one of the nurses' attention and she came over to them.

"Can I help you?"

"My husband is here. He was brought in with stomach pains. His name is Chandler Bing."

"Yes. He's right down this hall. They're prepping him for surgery."

"Surgery?" Monica gasped. "Why does he need surgery?"

"The doctor will explain everything. Just go down this hall, through the double doors and talk to the nurses there."

"Thank you." They rushed down the hall and through the double doors, where they saw another nurses station.

"Monica," they turned and saw Phoebe, Rachel, and Joey coming down the hall.

"Where's Chandler? What's wrong with him?" she demanded.

"His appendix burst. They're getting him ready for surgery." Joey told her.

"Am I able to see him before he goes in?"

"I think the doctor is still in prepping him. He's in the first room down the hall."

Monica rushed down the hall and into the room that Joey told her. She walked in and saw Chandler on the bed as she spotted a doctor standing nearby and a nurse hooking him up to an IV.

"Can I help you?" the nurse looked at her.

"That's my husband. Can I see him before he goes down to surgery?"

"He's not very coherent. We just administered some antibiotics."

"We're getting ready to take him down." The doctor turned to face her. "I'm Dr. Parker. I'll be performing the surgery."

"Chandler?" she took his hand in hers and touched the side of his face.

"Monica?" he mumbled as his eyes opened to slits.

"Hey," she smiled at him. "They're going to take you down now, but I'll be there when you wake up."

"Ok." He mumbled again. "Love you."

"I love you, too."

"Ok. We need to take him now." Dr. Parker told her.

"I'll see you when you wake up." Monica softly kissed his cheek before letting go of his hand and they pushed him out of the room.

Monica returned to the waiting room where she found the others sitting in the chairs waiting for her to return.

"How is he?" Ross asked.

"They just took him down." She told them. "He was very out of it."

"I'll call dad and let him know what's going on." Ross went to the pay phones.

"Did he just get worse after we left?" Monica asked the others.

"You were gone maybe five minutes when I heard a noise from the bedroom." Joey explained to her. "He had fallen off the bed and was screaming his head off."

"I helped them get here while Rachel stayed behind to try to get a hold of you guys and let the guests know that the party was cancelled." Phoebe added.

"I'm glad you guys were there to help him." Monica told them as a nurse approached them with a clipboard of papers.

"Mrs. Bing, we need you to fill out all your husbands' information." She told her.

"No problem," she took the papers from her. "Do you know about how long the surgery will last?"

"It shouldn't be more than a couple hours." She assured them all.

Monica started filling out the many pages of paperwork as Ross came back to them, telling Monica that Jack and Judy would be bringing Daniel by first thing in the morning. They all settled in for a long wait, picking up magazines to pass the time or taking to pacing their area of the waiting room.

"Mrs. Bing?" the doctor finally came out and approached them and they all stood up to face him.

"How is he?" Monica demanded.

"We're getting him into a recovery room." He told them. "Once the anesthesia wears off fully, we can transfer him to a private room."

"Can I see him?"

"Of course. He's a little woozy still, but you can see him for a minute."

"We'll wait right here." Ross told her as she started to follow the doctor.

They reached a door and Monica pushed it open and spotted a motionless form lying on a table in the middle of the room. She approached him and took Chandler's hand in hers. His eyes blinked open and he saw her smiling down at him.

"Hey." She smiled at him.

"What-" he looked around in confusion.

"Everything is fine." She assured him. "You just got out of surgery and they're going to get you in a room soon."

"I feel weird."

"It's probably all the medication."

"We're going to move him now." A nurse came in to them. "You'll have to wait out in the hall while we get him ready."

"I'll see you soon, honey." Monica told him, but he had already fallen back asleep.

The next time that Chandler awoke it was to find himself in a darkened room. He looked around and spotted a figure curled up on a nearby chair. He was asleep again within seconds.

He awoke again when he heard soft voices near him. He slowly opened his eyes and saw Monica sitting across the room with her dad as they talked softly. Monica looked over at him as he tried to sit up by himself.

"Hey," she went to him. "Good morning, Sleepyhead."

"Is it still morning?" he asked softly.

"Technically. It's a little after 11:30." She sat beside him. "They had a little trouble waking you up. They think that you might've had a reaction to the anesthesia that they used."

"Like an allergic reaction?"

"Kind of."

"We were starting to worry about you." Jack approached the bed. "I'm glad you're finally awake."

"Hello, sir." Chandler looked at him. "Did you bring Daniel with you?"

"He's down in the cafeteria with my mom and Ross." Monica told him.

"They should be coming back soon." Jack told him.

"Daniel wanted to stay in here with you, but I convinced him to go get something to eat." Monica told him as they all heard the door slowly open.

"Daddy!" Daniel ran to the bed and Monica caught him before he could climb up.

"He's still sore. You can't sit there." She told him.

"He can sit on my other side." Chandler said softly as he looked down at Daniel.

"All right, but be careful." Monica lifted Daniel onto the other side of the bed, careful of all the wires and tubes connected to Chandler and leading to the machine behind the hospital bed.

"Are you ok, daddy?" Daniel looked at him.

"I'm feeling a lot better now that you're here." Chandler smiled at him. "Did you have fun at Grandma and Grandpa Gellar's last night?"

"I stayed up until one!"

"He snuck some sweets after we told him that he couldn't have anymore." Judy told them.

"He has a sweet tooth." Chandler told her. "All kids do."

Daniel spent the next hour telling them all about the party the night before. Chandler drifted off to sleep again after the nurse came in to check on him and to administer his pain killers. Monica sent Daniel home with Ross, but stayed by Chandler's side throughout the day as he dozed on and off.

Chandler awoke again when he saw that it was dark out. He turned his head when he heard movement and saw Jack sitting up from the chair across the room.

"Hey." He approached the bed. "I sent Monica home for awhile. She needed to get some rest, a shower…"

"Thanks." Chandler said softly.

"So I heard the good news."

"What news?" Chandler looked at him confused.

"You proposed to my daughter for a second time. You guys are planning on renewing your wedding vows."

"I'm giving your daughter the wedding she deserved to have the first time. She deserves to feel like a queen for a day. She actually deserves to feel like one every day, but I'm giving her this day."

"I agree with you." Jack smiled at him. "I'm glad you guys will be getting the wedding that you deserved to have all those years ago."

"Thank you, sir." Chandler smiled at him. "I hope you'll be able to help with it."

"I'll help with what I can." Jack told him as Chandler drifted off into oblivion again.

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