I Own nothing from the suite life of Zack and Cody.
"She's gone, isn't she Marion?" Carey was finally able to ask
"Yes" Was the short reply she received, it was so hard for him to say it, saying it out loud meant he had to accept it. A tear rolled down Carey's face, she had loved Maddie, but she loved Cody more so he had had to be firm and guide Zack into at least trying to save Cody, but at that moment it wasn't certain that Zack or Cody would survive.
"How are Zack and Cody? Have they started?" Moesby asked
"Only Just, I was about to go in and watch, it's going to take a long time" Carey replied with her sadness at Maddie's death very evident in her voice.
"I'm sorry Carey, I know you must be feeling like you are in some way responsible for Maddie's death, I want you to know that I don't blame you, I never could, you did what was expected of you, no one can fault you for wanting your son to survive" Moesby had noticed her newly depressed demeanour, and caring about her as much as he did he was not going to let her blame herself.
"Thank you, but it doesn't help...I know I did the right thing, but I feel awful, I condemned her to death...and I don't even want to think about how I'm going to tell Zack, he's just going to die"
"You're the strongest woman I know Carey, you'll find a way."
Zack and Cody's surgery began uneventfully; two surgical teams were working in tandem, one on Cody, removing his destroyed Kidneys and the other on Zack, removing one of his for transplantation into Cody.
"The patient is weak, so let's go carefully guys, we don't need any unwanted incidents" the surgeon in charge of Cody said. It was decided that Cody would be cut open first on the right, it was determined that the accident had done the least damage to the structures surrounding that kidney, so the chances of successful transplantation to that side was highest.
Carey, Kurt and Moesby watched Cody being cut open, clutched in quiet hope, a desperate hope that nothing would go wrong. There looked to be so much blood that oozed out when Cody was cut into, the doctors very apprehensive given his incredibly weak state
"His blood pressure is dropping" one doctor exclaimed, Cody's blood pressure had been unstable since his crash, and it had just dropped but stabilised, so the surgery could continue, but it was just another thing weighing on everyone's minds.
Eventually the surgeons reached Cody's destroyed right kidney, it was bruised and blackened, obviously useless and surrounded by severed veins, ligaments and torn fleshy tissue.
"This trauma is intense, how is this kid alive" one surgeon exclaimed upon seeing the mess
"I don't know, but let's keep it that way" The lead surgeon orders and the work began on extricating the useless organ from its tangled mess.
Meanwhile Zack's surgery was going along at regular pace; there was recognition that Cody required a Kidney as soon as possible, and his drop in blood pressure was just something else to remind them of that. Zack however needed to be treated with upmost care, anything happening to him could be a disaster for everyone involved.
Zack was cut along the line that had been marked on his stomach off to the right of his body slightly, blood oozed out as the wound was cut. Carey gasped when she saw the blood pour from Zack, it was moving faster than it had from Cody admittedly, she felt someone squeezing her hand, she expected it was Kurt but when she looked down she realised it was Marion Moesby.
Carey's attention was suddenly and horribly dragged back to the operating theatre, alarms had begun going off all around Zack and the blood flow was now just that, a flow, and a strong one too, not spraying out quite but was running at quite a rate.
"His blood pressure is dropping, his O2 sats are down" a nurse yelled
"Where the hell is this bleeding coming from?" One of the doctor's yelled "suction" he commanded and a nurse began frantically trying to suction the blood pouring out of Zack. Carey, Kurt and Moesby just looked on in horror, desperately hoping Zack would be alright.
"It's a burst vein and some vessels, put up a transfusion, how is his pulse rate?" The lead surgeon yelled to his team who immediately followed his instruction "Pulse is going through the roof, his heart is going to stop soon" was the frantic reply.
"We need to stop this bleeding, I need more suction, I can barely see it" The surgeon yelled, two more nurses came over and now three were trying to desperately suction the fast flow of blood out of Zack's abdominal cavity.
"He's not getting enough oxygen" A doctor yelled "Turn up ventilator flow".
"It's not working, we need to clamp this bleeding or we're going to lose him" The scene was chaotic and Cody lay on the bed next to Zack, most of his doctors having already run over to assist with Zack leaving his surgery on standby and the Martin Family along with Mr. Moesby in absolute terror.
Eventually they were able to successfully stem Zack's bleeding, but he had gone a significant amount of time with substandard oxygen flow, and defibrillation was needed to shock his heart back into the proper rhythm, but at least he was alive.
"Can we go on with the surgery?" Cody's lead surgeon asked Zacks
"I think so we'll just have to be careful, can someone have another OR cleared for us to move Zack into when we've got the Kidney, and make sure ICU is ready for him" The surgeon ordered.
Zack's life was now hanging in a similar balance to Cody, he had become weak from the incident and it seemed as if that maybe he wouldn't survive either, it was a horrible prospect for Carey, Kurt and Mr. Moesby. For Moesby the worst thing was that Carey was upset, he loved her so much, and he couldn't understand the cruelty she had to endure as a mother, to see her sons going through this.
Both surgeries were now back on track, with Cody's traumatised abdomen causing some difficulties with the need to remove and change some previously stemmed bleeding spots, but no major bleeding occurred and Cody's breathing remained at a tolerable level. Eventually it got to the point where the major arteries and veins connecting Cody's useless Kidney needed to be removed and the connections tied off in preparation to be connected to Zack's donor Kidney. As the surgeon moved to make a cut on one of the veins for some reason a jolt shot down Cody's body, like a seizure almost, his body shook as if an electrical pulse had gone through him, but never the less it was enough for the scalpel to slip and inadvertently slice an artery, sending blood all over the room.
"SHIT!" The doctors all yelled "Clamp it. Clamp it!" was the yell from the chief surgeon
"O2 sats are down, blood pressure is dropping, pulse is skyrocketing" someone yelled. Again the occupants of the viewing area were again devastated in their shock, it was horrible to see Cody dying they thought.
"OH god Kurt, we've lost them, Cody's dying, and Zack will go too" Carey cried.
"They'll be fine" Moesby tried to comfort her but it was no use, Kurt couldn't say anything at all, he was just shocked and looked white as a ghost, his focus squarely on Cody.
Meanwhile Zack's surgeons were close to removing his Kidney when Cody had crashed, sending some running to help and others to watch Zack.
"Even if we stabilize him now, he won't last surgery if we can't transplant soon" Cody's surgeon yelled as he worked frantically to stop Cody's bleeding and save his life "Take Zack out into the next room and get his kidney, bring it in here, we'll ice it" he yelled and his counterpart agreed and Zack was moved out of the room frantically, into the OR next door. The efforts to save Cody frantically continued and with Zack's crash not long before there were real worried that neither of the Martin Twins would survive the surgery.
Well there we go guys- I apologise for not updating much anymore, but I've just gone back to Uni (college for all you Americans) so it's been incredibly taxing on my time and I just can't update anywhere near as much as I'd like, but I do what I can so I hope you can appreciate that and enjoy the story anyway. I also apologise for the last chapter, it didn't go as well as I'd liked, I don't feel it was that well received by my readers and overall I'm not that proud of it. I'm sorry if Killing Maddie was a bad thing for me to do, but I do feel that aspect of the chapter was needed. Anyways, hope you enjoyed this chapter, hope your enjoying the story- stay tuned!
P.S: I have absolutely no medical expertise, so pretty much anything medical I say is either inspired by ER or made up lol. Just thought I'd mention that.