Disclaimer: I don't own the characters of Coyote Ugly just the ones I make up in the story.
Chapter 13: An Uncertain Future
St. Luke's Medical Center
December 13, 2000
4:00am
All I remember was coming to in the ambulance and looking at Kevin before my world became black again. Then everything after that was a blur.
When we arrived at the hospital the doctors were asking Kevin a dozen of questions as they wheeled me to a trauma room where they had a x ray machine right in the room. They started taking x ray after x ray and pressing on my stomach. When they hit the spot that hurt I screamed bloody murder.
"Doctor looks like she has a severely ruptured appendix," the radiologist said.
"We need a surgical consult stat!" the doctor said to the nurse as she made a call to the surgery unit and minutes later a surgeon appeared and looked me over then he gave the order to have me wheeled to surgery. The nurses escorted Kevin to the surgery waiting room and he started making calls first to my dad, then to everyone else.
"Hello?" Bill answered the phone.
"Mr. Sanford, it's Kevin. Violet's at St. Luke's Medical Center and she's not doing good. The doctors say she has a severely ruptured appendix and they're operating on her now. You're going to be on your way? Okay see you soon. Bye." Kevin said as he hung up the phone.
Kevin then called the rest of my family and all our friends then he sat down and waited for my dad.
8:00am
The sun was starting to come up when the surgeon came into the waiting room.
"Is this the family of Violet Sanford?" the surgeon asked.
"Yes this is. How is she?" Kevin asked.
"Well I'm not going to lie to you but her appendix didn't rupture it burst doing some extensive damage to her colon and one of her ovaries. We had to remove the damaged ovary and repair some arterial damage and do a colostomy. She's going to be on a ventilator for about 48 hours and then will be in a lot of pain just to let you know." the surgeon said.
"When can we see her?" Kevin asked.
"As soon as they get her settled into the SICU then a nurse will come and get you and take you back to see her," the surgeon said as he left the room.
Fifteen minutes later the nurse came into the waiting room.
"Mr. O'Donnell? Hi, I'm Julie one of your fiancé's nurses in the SICU. I can take you and her father back to see her now," the nurse said.
Kevin and my Dad got up and followed the nurse to my room. I was hooked up to IV's and monitors and a ventilator. Kevin took one look at me and he fell to his knees, crying hard. My dad and a nurse helped him off the floor and walked him over to a chair at my side. He looked at me again and took my hand in his.
"Hey baby, I hate seeing you like this. You have to get better, you have to!" he said as my dad patted him on the back.
After 10 minutes Kevin left the room so my dad could be alone with me. He went to talk to our family and friends.
"How is she?" Keith asked.
"She's in serious but stable condition. She'll be on the ventilator for a couple of days then they'll take her off it to see if she can breathe on her own. Then they said that she'll have a lot of pain after she's off the ventilator," Kevin said.
"We'll be praying for her Kevin," Lil said hugging a crying Cammie, along with Rachel.
Just then my dad came out and sat down next to Judy who gave him a huge hug as he cried. Kevin went over and hugged him too. It was going to be a long 48 hours for all of us.