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AN: Sorry it is taking me so long to update! I typed a ton of chapters and then they all somehow deleted or something. (I am really bad with computers and I wish I could do this on my ipad!) anyway I am so overwhelmed with all of the things going on right now but I will try to post as much as I can. Also my school will start soon so that means the story will sadly have to updated a little less. I will at least be able to update once a week probably more. Also I try as hard as possible to get all of the medical terminology right but I am not a doctor as much as I wish I were. Anyway here is a drama filled chapter.
Chapter 12
Arizona's POV
Arizona wakes up to find April sitting next to her bed writing in patent charts. "Hey, how long have you been here?" She asks clearing her throat to try to shake her horse morning voice she always has when she first wakes up. April looks up with a smile on her face. She had decided to try to stay positive and cheery to make Arizona feel better. "I'm not sure, a little less then an hour. Callie and Mark went to go eat breakfast and Callie didn't want u here alone. Then she got paged to do a surgery on Shepard. Would you like me to text her that you are awake?"
A wave of light-headedness washes over her all of a sudden and she feels her face flush. "No don't bother her." The blond chocks out. "Arizona are you ok?" She goes to nod her head, planning to act like she is fine but before she can she feels like she is going to be sick. April, who has learned that look after years of being puked on by patents runs to get a basin. The second it is in Arizona's lap she throws up in it. Then again…and again. Once she is confident she is done losing her stomach contents she takes the tissue April is offering her and wipes her chapped lips. April takes it, washes it out and returns it to her friend whose health seems to be declining by the second. She is now pale as a ghost, sweating and shivering.
"Arizona let me take your temperature. You are not looking so good." April grabs a thermometer for the drawer and sticks it in Arizona's mouth. When it reads 103 degrees and climbing the red head lets it fall from Arizona's lips before it has a final read and grabs her pager. She pages Richard 911, knowing she needs help fast. She grabs a cup of water off of the tray holding Arizona's untouched breakfast. "Drink this. You have a really high fever." Aprils phone rings loudly, the sound bouncing off of the room's walls. "Hello, Richard is that you? You have to come to Arizona's room now! What? How can you not be at the hospital? Well how far are you? No she's in surgery. Ok ill do that." The frantic red head grabs her pager from her pocket and sends the same message she had sent to Richard to Alex. Less then a minute later Alex bursts through the door. "What wrong?"
By this time Arizona has started breathing heavily. "I don't know. She just started throwing up and has a really high fever. Oh and she just started that breathing thing. I don't know if it is because she is nervous or if the infection has something to do with it. I, I just don't know what's going on." Aprils voice is shaky and she looks to be on the verge of a panic attack. "Calm down ill take care of it." Alex says as he walks over to Arizona.
"Just let me listen to your heart. I'm going to find out what's wrong." Alex puts his ice-cold stethoscope to her chest but has to pull it back abruptly when she vomits again. "Page Callie. It's the leg." Alex says without breaking his concentration on the quickly worsening patient who he calls his friend. She does as she is told and a minute later her phone rings. "Oh Callie, thanks god its you! Well she is not doing so well right now. Pretty bad. Yes I know you're in surgery. Can you come? That's ok I understand. Its the leg. She is becoming unstable. A high fever, vomiting, the chills, shortness of breath-" Just then the heart monitor that just minutes ago showed little to no irregularity was now beeping wildly.
"Talk to me April! What does she say we do?" "What should we-" The line on the monitor goes flat; a blaring alarm assaults the two doctors ears. "We are losing her, Callie!" He says loud enough to be heard through the phone. "Put her on speaker." Alex huffs out between breaths as he starts chest compressions. "Take the leg Alex! Now!" At those words Alex takes control. "Page OR1 and tell them we are on our way and to be ready with a crash cart." "Callie, I have to go help. Yes I will call you back when we get there." "Ok I paged them. What would you like me to do?" She was relived to see that Alex had taken control and she was happy to take order instead of lead. "Get on the bed and continue chest compressions while I unhook her from everything that needs to stay here. Then we move." He runs around disconnecting wires and unplugging machines.
"We are moving." He says as he pushes the bed out of the room in the direction of the elevators. "Out! We need to get to the OR now!" A few people rush out leaving them alone. "How long has she been down?" April says as she pushes the heel of her hand into a chest which is no longer rising and falling with breaths. Alex tares his eyes away for the numbers telling him what floor they are on to look in her direction. "Not long and I plan on keeping it that way."
The doors slide open and they come bursting out, making a few people jump out of their path. On the way to the OR they see Owen. "Hunt, we need you." Alex says, not slowing down in the slightest to talk to him. Owen does as he is told and follows him into the OR when he realizes it is not just another one of their patents, its one of their own. "Call Dr. Torres." He says giving his phone to one of the waiting scrub nurses. "Ill take over compressions. You two go scrub in." Alex grabs April off of Arizona's lifeless body and they run to scrub.
"Callie talk to me!" Owen says when the nurse holds the phone to his ear. "She has an open femur fracture that is really infected." Knowing the nurse could also hear what she was saying he signaled for her to pull back the covers to let him see what they were dealing with. "Oh wow, that's really bed."
Alex and April jog into the sterile room ready to operate. Alex goes over to her IV and pushes one milligram of Epinephrine. He also gives her some Anastasia not wanting to have to wait for the anesthesiologist. A loud sound rings through the room. "She's in V Fib! Grab the AED we need to shock her!" April grabs the paddles and rubs them together to spread the clear jelly like substance covering them. "Charge to 200! Clear! Charge to 300! Clear!" The monitor beeps normally showing off a perfectly rhythmic heartbeat. "We have her back Torres. Do I still take the leg because it could stop her heart again if we leave it?" Alex asks. "No take it now! I would come but the longer I leave Derek's hand like this the worse it gets." Callie says in a not so clam and collected voice. "Don't worry Cal, ill do it. I will take care of your girl. I promise."
April, Owen and a few nurses scramble to prep for the surgery that was coming momentarily. Once it is all set up Alex walks up to the now propped and draped leg ready to do his most careful surgery yet knowing there was not place for mistakes. "Scalpel." He says in a confident tone.
As they wheel her to post ops a frantic looking Callie runs up to them. "How is she doing?" Callie kisses Arizona's cheek and pushes a lock of blond hair off of her closed eyes. "She is doing better. It was hard to keep her stable at first but once we got that leg off she did fine." Callie goes over and hugs April and Alex at the same time. "Thank you!" Callie sits in post ops waiting for Arizona to wake up.
Alex walks back a few hours after the surgery to check on her. "You are free to leave post ops. Would you like me to help you bring her wheel her to her room?" "Yah, sure, that would be great. When do you think she will wake up? It seems like she has been out for a long time." Alex starts prepping her to move. "I'm not sure, maybe another few hours. She needs all of the rest she can get to keep fighting that infection. I also could have given her a little to much Anastasia. I didn't know exactly how much she weighed so I guessed. It wont hurt her, it'll just keep her sleeping." Alex pushes the bed into the empty elevator. "Do you think I made a bad dissuasion to try to save the leg? Should I have taken it the second I got here?" Alex looks up at her."I mean maybe. We could have avoided her getting this sick. But to tell you the truth if she were my wife I would have done the same thing. Now you know you tried everything not just gave away her limb because it was the easiest option."
The doors open and they go to her room. Once she is settled she takes her phone out of her pocket and sees that she has ten missed calls from Mark. "Damn it!" She says as she jumps to her feet. She immediately calls him back. "Hey Mark I'm sorry Arizona was having…some trouble. Are you ok? Well where are you? Yes, of course you can use my car. See you then." Callie tries to pass the time until Arizona wakes up or Mark gets there. She plays a few games on her phone, sings a few songs in Spanish, brushes out Arizona's hair and re braids it.
Just as she thinks she will surly die of boredom Marks walks in. She jumps up to hug him nearly knocking everything he is holding from his arms. As they melt into each other's embrace they realize how much they both needed it. Mark then pulls a gurney piled high with stuff in behind him. "Essentials only?" Callie asks with a smirk. "We needed a lot." Mark says trying to defend himself. She sees things like Sophia's playpen and a bag full of bathroom supplies like their toothbrushes. She thinks that is was lucky that he went to get all of their things because she would have forgotten all of those things.
Mark collapses on the little couch in the corner, not large enough for more then two people and Callie does the same. "What happened to her?" He asks lifting his leg to point with the toe of his shoe at Arizona. "The infection stopped her heart, they took the leg." Mark shoots up for his slouched position to face her. "Really? Are you ok?" Tears spring to Callie's eyes. "Yah, I just hope that she doesn't hate me for letting them take it." "How could she hate you for saving her life. You and I both know that she would rather be alive and disabled then dead." "Your right. Do you mind staying with her while I grab Sophia from daycare? I could use a walk." "Yah, no problem. Just hurry back because I brought diner."
Callie walks slowly thinking about all of the different ways Arizona could take the life altering news. She could be understanding and get why Callie did what she did, she could be sad and just cry about it, she could be mad and yell. There were so many ways she could take it. How could she possible prepare herself for this conversation?
When she gets back to the room almost half an hour later with her baby in her arms she finds the place set up with things from her apartment. Sophia's high chair is by the couch, there is a vase of pink flowers on the counter by the sink, and the little bed is gone. There is also Chinese food on the coffee table. "Wow this place looks great!" "I'm not done yet. I thought if I made it a little homier and a little less like a hospital room it would make Arizona feel better. I just figured she would be here for a while and this generic set up gets old fast." He goes over to her and covers her with a blue blanket from their bed back home. "That's so sweet! Thank you!" "No problem. Now lets eat. I was going to have us wait for her to wake up but it is almost 8:30 and the cafeteria people brought her food. "I'm up for that. I'm starving!"
Mark takes Sophia from Callie and puts her in her high chair. He puts some cut up fruit and Cheerios on her tray as a snack and goes over to sit next to his already eating friend. "So today I go a call from Thatcher Grey." He tries to say it in a casual way but fails. Callie nearly spits out her food. "What did he have to says?" "He was talking about a funeral. He wants me to help plan it since she told him I was 'The One'. He also wants me to speak at it." He sniffles a bit but does not let any tears fall. "Oh Mark, I'm sorry. That must have been difficult." "It was a little awkward, you know because I never thought he really liked me or liked that I was with Lex. But in a way I'm grateful that I get to be included. He also asked me when the funeral should be and I said a little less then a month, when all of the doctors are out of the hospital." "Yah, that's a great idea."
From the other side of the room they hear a light grunt. "Ill take Sophia for a walk so you two can talk." Callie walks over to Arizona's bed prepared to tell her what would undoubtedly be the worst news of her life.
AN: so I hope you liked that chapter! Kind of sad. Anyway I thought I would just explain some things said in the chapter for those of you who do not know. AED means automatic external defibrillator and Epinephrine (adrenalin)is a hormone and a neurotransmitter that stimulates your heart and is given when people flat line and V Fib (Ventricular Fibrillation) is when your heart beat is really abnormal. I thought you would just like to know some of these if you were wondering. Again I am not a doc just a teenage girl wishing she was one so it may not be perfect but it is the best I can do. (But I am not saying it will be wrong! I talked mostly about things I had back round knowledge about) anyway keep reviewing!