Ambulance chapter 5
After radiology had finished the mri scan of cate's whole body, they removed the led sheet that covered her abdomen, then they handed her back over to the staff of the emergency department, as the porters wheeled her out of the scan room, Gabrielle and frank stood waiting for the scans to be finished, soon the door to the room opens and the porters wheel out the trolley with cate lay flat on her back with a collar around her neck and sand bags under her head keeping her as still as possible.
Frank and Gabrielle grab the rails of the trolley while a porter is at either end of the trolley pushing the patient through the busy corridors of all saints, soon the four have cate settle back into the resus bay, where she tries to rest since trying to talk is boring since she has to look to the white ceiling.
"Did radiology say how long the results of the MRI will be" asks Frank talking to Gabrielle?
"They said to give them 20 minutes to process the films and look at the results" answers Gabrielle.
"Okay good and how is our VIP patient at the moment" asks Frank?
"still in pain but I gave her some pain relief before the scan to help her relax a bit and that seemed to help, I also managed to get her to rest for a little while so if she is a sleep, even though we know it will be difficult sleeping flat on your back, so please don't disturb her" explains Gabrielle.
"I won't I promise, has she asked for anything else like maybe the father of the baby, or has she asked about heath" asks Frank?
"not about the father but she has enquired about heath and the young lad, she told me how she know feels sorry for the lad, she also told me how the father wanted to kill the lad" explains Gabrielle.
"Then why didn't he" asks Frank?
"Cate jumped in front of the lad when the father fired the gun, and she took the bullet for the young lad, she saved his life" answers Gabrielle.
"okay well keep me posted on cate, oh and keep an eye on her breathing, soon enough we will need to put in a chest tube but I don't know when, if needs be get zoe to put one in before the scan results come back" says Frank walking off in the direction of the office to catch up on paper work.
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Ambulance
Heath sat in the driver's seat of the hijacked ambulance, all he can hear from the man with the gun in the back is shouting and verbal abuse aimed at his son, Jim didn't like his son he thought he was a waste of space, and at first heath thought the same when he recognized dean dealing drugs and badgering young teenagers to deal drugs and buy them from him, after witnessing that heath made his mind up about dean he didn't want anything to do with him, but know he is stuck in an ambulance with a gun held to his head and driving round in circles.
After listening to the whole story from top to bottom, heath learned a great deal about the family currently in the back of his ambulance, he learned that the mother is collateral damage and she was injured for some known reason and know she is slowly dying at the hands of her own husband, then dean the only son is a drug dealer but not by choice he got forced into dealing at a young age by his father, once dean turned sixteen he didn't get a chance to go to college once he left school, he got thrown out of his house, and soon one of his father's friends forced him into drug dealing.
Months went by and dean turned into a bad lad, a sweet young lad from a young age goes from being a good boy and a grade a student to being a sixteen year old drug dealer, once his dad turfed him out for no reason, he was left homeless, moneyless and no food to feed himself, so when a man turned up and forced him to deal drugs and answer to a mysterious and unknown boss he had no choice as he needed the money from what he sold to stay alive, until nearly 5 months later and lots of kids ended up in hospitals with overdoses dean realized who was behind the whole operation, and so did cate and heath.
Dean sat in the corner of the ambulance while heath drove the van, he sat there listening to his dad snarl rude remarks about him and his mum, heath heard this and he hated what he heard know he knew why cate threw herself in front of dean, she knew that dean was a good lad and she didn't want him to get hurt, so she protected him and took the bullet for the young bad lad who in fact was a victim just like heath and cate and his mother, heath new he had to do something so he turns around and speaks to the foul mouthed man who was in a mid-rant at his son.
"Jim hey buddy I need you to stop with the yelling" shouts heath trying to get Jim's attention.
"Why would I stop shouting even when you ask me too, all I am doing is telling my son he is bad and what he is doing is bad, and I am also making him learn a lesson" explains Jim still shouting at heath.
"Really well at the moment your son isn't the bad person here, the bad person is you" snarls heath back to Jim.
"Why you sticking up for him" shouts Jim.
"I am sticking up for him because someone has too, since you the man who claims to be his father has a gun aimed at his head and know shouting abuse at him" answers Heath.
"Really well this boy needs to be taught a lesson, and how not to talk to his elders, and he should do as he is told and not tell lies to people" shouts Jim.
"okay I get you want to teach him a lesson but why with a gun, and what are the lessons you want to teach him, like not to deal drugs to kids or keeping dealing drugs to young kids and who cares if they die from a drug overdose" says heath standing up to the mad man.
"What is your problem with me, and the way I speak to my son" asks Jim.
"the problem I have is that you are picking on your son for no reason, and I don't think he is a bad lad I think he is a good lad and when he told you he wanted to stop dealing your product for you and your mates you got angry, and hurt your wife and know you are blaming everything on other people and hurting anyone who comes in your way" snarls heath.
"Wow you and your blonde slag of a partner are really good, but soon the two of you will be dead along with my wife and I will be the hero" laughs Jim.
"so what you going to do know have me keep driving round in circles until I run out of petrol, then you going to shoot us both like you shot my partner" says Heath,
"Maybe now do as I say or my wife or my son gets it, so turn into that warehouse there" orders Jim pointing to the warehouse.
Heath does as he is told he drives the ambulance into the disused warehouse, as he drives in slowly he comes to a complete stop and waits for Jim to shout his next orders, he looks to dean and he sees the scared look in his eyes, heath knew that a sixteen-year-old lad shouldn't be messed up in stuff like this, so he thinks to himself that he is going to do what cate intended to do for the boy and protect him from his evil father.
20 yards away a police car spotted the hijacked ambulance, they radioed it into the bosses at the nearest police station, and unbeknown to Jim the ambulance had been spotted and knows it was a waiting game.
Jim order heath and his son to get the trolley off the ambulance with his wife lay on it, once the trolley is out of the ambulance heath checked the wife's vitals and he noticed something she was slowly deteriorating and he knew if she didn't get to a hospital soon she would be dead, all heath could do is sit with dean waiting for a miracle while Jim sat in a corner with the gun in his hand thinking of what sick thing to do next.
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Emergency department
In the emergency department all the staff were waiting for news on two of their friends, the first one lay flat on her back not moving because she may have a bullet near her spine, and her partner is outside somewhere either hurt or okay and alone with no help, all the staff were scared, but then there was good news for cate.
"Frank radiology has got the results and they gave me the report on cate's injuries" says Gabrielle handing over the file with papers in containing the results from cate's MRI.
"Oh good let's see if we can get some good news for us all" says Frank grabbing the file from Gabrielle's hands and opens the file and reads them.
Zoe walks to the nurses station after she had finished putting a chest tube into cate's chest, as the broken ribs eventually punctured her lung, as she is filling out paperwork at the desk she looks up to see frank reading some results, she figures out who the results are for.
"Hey are those cate's scanning results" enquires Zoe.
"Yep frank just reading them how is she now after the chest tube is in" answers Gabrielle asking how her friend is.
"Chest tube went in ok, and she is breathing comfortably, but she may need a top up of pain relief soon, but I would hold off until surgery come down and assess her" says Zoe.
"Okay I will pop in and check on her soon" reply's Gabrielle.
"and the good news is the bullet hadn't damaged her spine, it is just near her spine probably pressing on the nerves and that's what causing the pain in her back, inform mike and get a spinal surgeon down here" explains frank.
Half an hour later mike and a spinal surgeon come down and assess cate's injuries, luckily for her they can remove the bullet and she may not lose the use of her legs, but then her other problem is the baby, but then mike came up with an idea which all the team and cate agreed on, soon cate was on her way up to have the operation on her back.