"Dr. Green! How is your sister doing? Is the baby doing alright?" Addison questions me as she walks into the elevator. It had been just over three weeks since Louise had given birth. Louise and Tom were staying in a hotel for a couple of weeks and everybody else flew back to San Francisco a few days after the baby was born, except for my Mother who is going tonight.
"Louise is good, she's resting a lot. They're waiting for another week or so before they fly back out. They called her Alana Maria. Alana Maria Wright." I tell her. "She's adorable, she's smiling and laughing and she sleeps a lot. Is it bad that I'm kind of jealous of a baby?" I laugh.
"Aren't we all." She laughs too before stepping off the elevator on the third floor. My pager begins beeping like crazy and I sigh, stepping back on to the elevator to head up to the fifth floor. Bailey is filling out a form and Karev is stood not too far away from her.
"Alright you two, this should be interesting." She says, raising her eyebrows. We both follow her in to a room and she hands me his chart. "Matt Walters, age 25. He's been complaining of headaches, dizziness and nausea and also has a priapism." Alex stifles a laugh which earns him a glare from Bailey. "It's down to you two to find out exactly how it it happened and fix it."
I close the door behind Bailey and sigh as Alex takes a seat. I stand at the end of the bed and look at his chart while Alex begins to talk to him.
"Come on, man, what did you do? The sooner you tell us, the sooner we can fix your...problem, and the sooner you get to go home." He says.
"Alright I'm going to give you some blood thinners, hopefully that will reduce your, uh, hopefully it will reduce some of the blood." I tell Matt as I begin to fill an injection with a thinner that was on the tray Bailey left us.
"Actually, I'd prefer it if he did it." Matt intervenes and I frown. "It's just that this... this isn't really an ideal situation to have a woman near...you know." I nod and hand the injection to Alex.
"I get it, that's fine." I say and sit where Alex was previously sitting. "But while you're at it, do you mind telling me how exactly this happened? Did you take something?"
"No! No - it just wouldn't go down, it's been like this all morning." I sigh and take another look at his chart. It's nearing the end of the afternoon and he decides to come in now.
"It's not working." Alex frowns and pulls the covers back over him. "Looks like we're going to have to do some research."
After we did a little research, we decided to try a saline IV drip to reduce the blood in the area. I sit in the chair, looking at his chart again.
"Mr. Walters, what symptoms other than nausea, dizziness and headaches did you or are you experiencing? Any pains?" I question him and he nods.
"Yeah, yes! My back aches, I had some flushing and my vision went blurry for a little bit, but I don't think that's anything to do with it. I threw up three times this morning but I think that was just a hangover." He replies and I sigh, writing it all down on his chart.
"So, nausea, dizziness, headaches, back ache, blushing and blurred vision." I repeat.
"Yeah, that's right." He nods. I snap the chart shut and stand at the end of the bed.
"Mr. Walters, did you or did you not take sildenafil citrate last night?" I ask and he looks down at the sheets.
"What? Viagra?" He laughs a little but after I shake my head at him, he stops. "I think the saline IV is working, it looks like it's reducing."
"Yes." Matt says. "I took viagra."
"Alright, I'll get somebody to page Bailey." Alex says and leaves me to sort out the saline drip.
"I don't suppose there's any chance of me getting a date out of this, right?" Matt asks and I shake my head, chewing my lip to avoid laughing. Maybe it was a little unprofessional, but the whole situation was hilarious.
"Sorry, I don't and can't fraternise with patients." I reply, and Bailey walks in a few seconds later.
"Viagra, huh? Interesting. Nice job you two. I'll sign his discharge forms, you two finish up in here and then meet me downstairs with Yang. We have an emergency coming in." She orders.
"An emergency? What kind of emergency?" Alex questions.
"I have no idea. We don't have a lot of time, so hurry."
"I wonder what's going on?" I question Alex as we walk down the stairwell. He shrugs and I begin to tie my hair back. "I wonder if it's surgical."
"Whatever it is, it doesn't sound good." He says and I agree with him. It's almost never good if somebody is rushed to the ER and we don't know why or what happened to them until they get here. "How did you know that he was taking viagra?"
"I don't know, I think the symptoms just all came together and something clicked. That was weird, though. He asked me if there was any chance I'd go on a date with him." I laugh and Alex smirks.
"What did you tell him?" He asks and I shrug, beginning to pull the plastic overalls and gloves that they require we wear whenever somebody comes in.
"I told him that I can't and don't fraternise with patients." I reply and Cristina comes rushing down the hallway, joining us.
"Does anybody have any idea what's going on? Was it an accident?" She questions and I shake my head.
"We know just as much as you do." We stand outside with Bailey and soon enough, the ambulance rings become closer and closer before an ambulance pulls up and the doors are flung open and the paramedics begin talking.
"Female, mid fifties, unconcious..." He kept talking and talking but I didn't hear anything once I saw who they were wheeling inside. My breath caught in my throat and my entire body began to hurt and I'd never felt so helpless in my entire life.
"Mom?" I ask, reaching out towards her as they kept wheeling her down the hallway.
"Take her into any available trauma room, I'll come and find you. Just get her out of here."