Hey all,
Sorry I haven't updated in a few days. Just been off days. We all get them from time to time. Apologise in advance for any medical mistakes.
As Ethan approached resus, he could hear shouting from within the room.
"I told you, we should of pulled over!" Grace scream at a very tired Connie.
"Grace." Connie whispered.
"No, you've always got to prove you're right somehow." Grace continued to shout as Ethan walked in to resus. "You could of killed us!" Grace finished her rant then stormed past Ethan and out of Resus.
"Grace." Connie sat up quickly but became breathless. Ethan looked at Connie's ECG and saw it speeding. Connie fell back into the bed, unconscious once more. Ethan, going into doctor mode and dashed by Connie's side and lowered her bed.
"She's tachycardic." Ethan stated to Charlie. "You're not going after a Grace?" Ethan quickly asked him.
"Let's let her calm down." Charlie answered. Ethan stared at Charlie then turned his attention back to Connie as he assessed her.
"I don't get it. What's wrong?" Ethan asked. His mind has gone blank. Then he remembered; He was taken back to that day. Back to when he had a pneumothorax
and it was Connie and Cal there saving him, now the roles had reversed. He felt Connie's chest: Blunt. He put on his stethoscope and placed it on the left side of her chest; Muffled heartbeat. Charlie read Ethan's lost face.
"Ethan? What is it?" Charlie asked.
"She has a tamponade." Ethan stated. Charlie knew what this meant.
"What do you need?" Charlie asked, getting ready.
"There's no time to go echo so we need to go blind. I need fifteen engage cannula on a twenty mill syringe." Ethan quickly spoke. Charlie nodded then went to get the equipment. He came back with it quickly and Ethan prepared to insert the syringe.
Ethan rested the syringe on the skin of Connie's chest then looked at her unconscious face. Is this what they had to do to him? For a split second, Ethan could see himself in Connie's position. Cal didn't go into details about the procedure done in him, he just gloated about how much he saved Ethan's life.
"Ethan?" Charlie called to Ethan, who was still thinking but stopped when he heard Charlie. "We need to do this now or we are going to lose her." Charlie stated. Ethan took in Charlie's words. Ethan inhaled a deep breath and inserted the syringe into Connie's skin as he drew the blood from the internal bleeding. Charlie looked up at the screen and smiled.
"SATS are stabilising." Charlie exhaled a breath. Ethan's muscles relaxed a little as he removed the syringe. Cal stood and watched the whole thing without Ethan realising. Charlie then looked at Cal then back at Ethan. "I'll go find Grace." Charlie told Ethan then left. Ethan then finally noticed Cal.
Ethan placed the syringe in a bowl before walking over to his brother.
"You okay?" Cal placed a hand on the shoulder of his tense brother. Ethan nodded before turning back to Connie as he removed his gloves. "You know, for a while there: I saw you laying on that trolley again. Ethan looked at Cal.
"Me too." Ethan sighed.
"Is she going to be okay?" Cal asked.
"She's no longer critical. She should make a full recovery. No head trauma or spinal injuries. Mrs Beauchamp and Grace were lucky." Ethan spoke. Cal smiled. His brother was an outstanding doctor.
"Why don't you go wash your face? I'll get Connie comfortable again. Maybe talk to someone about getting her moved to some place quiet?" Cal suggested. Ethan nodded in agreement then left resus. Cal walked over to Connie's bed where he bandaged her chest then raised the head of her bed a little and put a blanket over her.
A little while later, Ethan was still not back when he left resus the first time but Connie was moved to a quiet, private side room. Cal sat by Connie's side. She woke up once again. Cal looked at her.
"Hey you, finished giving us all a scare?" Cal asked. Connie chuckled quietly. "How you feeling?"
"Numb. Sore." Connie answered.
"Yeah, you had a pneumothorax." Cal stated. Connie took in Cal's words. "Ethan performed the procedure."
"Ethan?" Connie asked. Cal nodded. "Wow, tables turned." Connie smiled.
"He also pulled you from the car." Cal said.
"Yeah. Grace told me that." Connie sighed sadly. "She's so mad at me."
"She'll calm down eventually." Cal smiled. "I think Charlie's talking to her now."
At this point, Ethan heard that Connie was actually moved, he entered the room where he looked up and noticed Connie was awake.
"Mrs Beauchamp." Ethan smiled as he picked up a file. "You moved." Ethan chuckled.
"I managed to persuade the ward and floor manager." Cal smirked.
"Right." Ethan looked at Cal then back at Connie. "How you feeling?"
"Chest is sore." Connie coughed a little.
"Okay, I'll sort out some medication." Ethan smiled.
"I'll leave you to it. Now your real doctor is here." Cal smirked. "Get better soon." Cal said to Connie who smiled back at him. He walked past Ethan. "See you downstairs." Ethan nodded at Cal, who then left.
"Right, how bad is the pain? Scaled 1 to 10." Ethan asked.
"About seven." Connie answered. It felt weird that she was answering these questions, when it's usually her asking them.
"Okay. I'll start you off on a small dose of morphine and we will see where we go from there." Ethan smiled as he turned up a dial on the morphine and it made its way into Connie's arm. "There we go. I'll come check on you later." Ethan was about to leave the room but was stopped by Connie's voice.
"Ethan." Connie called him, quietly. Ethan turned around to face her. "Thank you." Ethan looked at her, confused. "Grace and Cal told me what you did. Thank you. I really owe you a lot." Connie spoke.
"I'm just doing my job." Ethan smiled.
"Performing the procedure was your job. Pulling me away from a giant rock was a whole new meaning. I will not forget this, Ethan. I mean it." Connie smiled at Ethan, who smiled back then shut the door after he left the room. He exhaled a large breathe, smiled then walked downstairs.
Bit of a weird chapter here so hope it wasn't boring. Thought I would flashback to the Born Lucky episode since I watched it yesterday and thought about using some bits in this from that.
Also, I love how this was originally meant to be about Connie but it aimed towards Ethan and Cal (some of you may know that I'm like that.) Whoops. Anyway, see you all in the last chapter.