I forgot my Spoilers yesterday, sorry.
Oh and thanks for you lovely reviews last week. :o)
SPOLIERS - this week - Erica and Marissa talk, Scott is allowed to visit Madison in Oak Haven and the deadline to save Chandler is fast approaching.
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Griffin escorted Scott to a cubical down in ER and laid the bawling Holly carefully down onto the exam table.
"Can you tell me what happened?" He asked as he loosened the baby's cardigan.
"She just won't stop crying." said Scott panic in his eyes. "She's not hungry; she didn't need changing; she won't settle or sleep. She's going to make herself sick… I don't know what to do!"
"She's a little hot." said Griffin as he examined the baby's skin for any sign of a rash. "But I don't think it's a temperature."
He next felt around the baby's belly. It felt a little distended.
"When you say she's not hungry, how long ago did she have a bottle?"
"Half an hour or so." said Scott.
"And did you wind her?"
"What?"
Griffin sat the baby up, cupping her chin with one hand and patted her back with the other. After a moment, the baby's tears were interrupted by a rather impressive belch. Holly stopped crying in sheer surprise. A second smaller burp followed the first, although this one was accompanied by a little vomit.
"She had gas?" said Scott now completely embarrassed by his panic.
"Hey, it happens to the best of us." said Griffin, giving him a sympathetic smile. "It must be hard for you and Holly now that Madison is in Oak Haven?"
"I guess I've got still got a lot to learn. Babies take a lot of looking after."
"Yes they do." said Griffin. He fastened Holly's buttons back up and handed the now quiet baby back into her father's arms. "Have you anyone to talk to about this?"
"Not really." said Scott quietly.
Griffin patted his back.
"Well luckily I know just the person you can share horror stories with."
Griffin poked his head out of the cubical curtain and spotted his sister walking past.
"Hey sis," he called. "Have you got a moment?"
Cara smiled back.
"For you, Doctor Castillio, of course."
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Cara spent a good fifteen minute talking to Scott about child care. She recommended he talked to Bianca about the nursery facilities at the Miranda Centre if he was thinking about returning to work. Madison's condition surely qualified Holly for the Centre's support.
Scott thanked her gratefully.
"Why don't I come round with Charlie on Saturday? We can go through a few things." Cara offered. "You've got a good routine but I might be able to make a few more suggestions. It can get overwhelming very quickly."
"That would be wonderful." said Scott. "Hopefully it will stop me panicking at every little unknown."
Cara tickled Holly under her chin.
"You'll be fine. And trust me this pretty little madam is an Angel… My Charlie could scream the house down, and not just for a little while, he could scream for hours…"
"Is he better now?"
"He still screams. I guess I just got a better grip on the fact that his screams don't mean it's the end of the world. Then it just gets harder for the other people."
Scott laughed.
"You could be right but I guess I should take her home now."
"Well you both take care." she said. "And call if you need anything."
"Thank you." said Scott with real gratitude in his eyes.
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After treating Holly, Griffin had gone off to find Bianca in the X-ray department. He came back to ER barely ten minutes later and walked up to Cara looking a little confused.
"Have you seen David?" he asked.
Cara had been trying to keep on the lookout for David all day, after the promise she had made to her brother by the lockers. David hadn't come by ER though, that morning, which was quite unusual. He usual found a moment to pop down and ask about Charlie.
"I haven't." she said. "Did you miss him at X-ray?"
"I must have." said Griffin with a frown. "I was hoping to check up on Bianca's knee results but the radiologist said David took them. Apparently nothing's broken..."
"You could page him, if you want to check." Cara suggested.
Griffin sighed. As much as he didn't trust David there was only so much a doctor could do when faced with a sprained knee. If David wasn't here, it was likely he was taking Bianca back home. He was probably worrying about nothing.
"I'll wait until I see him." said Griffin, He checked his watch and sighed. "I need back to surgery anyway, I've a hip replacement at three."
"Well then, break a leg." called Cara with a grin. "And don't worry I'll let David know you want to talk to him if I see him."
"Thank you." said Griff, before heading off in the direction of the elevator.
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In the end Cara found David quite by accident. A boy had been brought in with a possible concussion so Cara accompanied him for a head CT only to find the booth occupied by David Hayward.
"I have an emergency patient." said Cara, surprised to see him. The log book said the scanner wasn't in use.
"I won't be much longer." said David, bringing up an image on screen of slice of spinal column.
"Who's in there?" Cara asked, and then she realised the truth. "It's Bianca, isn't it? I thought her X-ray was clear?"
"I just wanted to be sure." said David, flicking to a new image on the screen.
Cara leant closer and pointed the view of Bianca's insides David was now examining.
"Really? Because that looks very much like a shoulder and not a knee!"
"I thought it would make sense to do a full body scan as the fall impacted her arms as well as her hip and knee."
Cara gave him a hard look, who was he trying to kid?
"And did you find anything?"
"Not yet." said David. "Maybe nerve mapping…"
"Not cool." said Cara shaking her head in disappointment. "Not cool at all. Let the poor woman go home. Hasn't she been through enough? Especially if there's nothing wrong with her."
"But there is something wrong!" said David thumping a fist on the desk in frustration. "That one nerve cluster! Just forty-eight hours, that's all I need to synthesise a new serum to treat her paralysis. I'm so close!"
"Will that help her sprained knee? It is just sprain isn't it?"
"Yes it's sprain." said David.
"So will Orpheus help heal that?"
"No." said David.
"Then let her home before you get yourself stuck off again. If she doesn't want the treatment you can't force her! Griffin is already looking for you to talk about Bianca's X-ray. What's he going to do when he finds out about this?"
David scowled.
"I just want to help her!" he insisted.
"Then you need to find a better way to do it." said Cara. "Come on I need this scanner for a real emergency."
David sighed in defeat.
"I'll take her home."
"Good." said Cara her voice coming across as a motherly scold. "Make sure you do!"
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