Tiny Little Details
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Chapter 7
"Derek wake up we're going to be late!" shouted Meredith.
"I don't get in trouble for being late," answered Derek.
"But I'm the intern I do," answered Meredith "And we came in your car."
"Ok I'm up," mumbled Derek.
"And I'm in the shower!" she called.
"Oh I defiantly up now!" he shouted, jumping out of bed to join her.
Derek was quickly out of bed ad in the shower but all to soon they had to leave there bubble and head to work.
In a rush to get out of the trailer that morning – due to there long shower – Meredith had forgone her thirst for caffeine but now it was back and she'd need it before she saw Bailey.
"We made it," said Derek, as he pulled into a parking space on the other side of the car park.
"Yeah," she said. "Listen I have to go to the nursing home tomorrow morning. Do you want to come?" asked Meredith.
"If you want me to come," replied Derek.
"I wouldn't be asking if I didn't want you to come," smiled Meredith.
"Then I'll come I have surgery at nine though," smiled Derek.
"Maybe some other time then," smiled Meredith.
"You're going at nine?" asked Derek.
"That's when visiting time starts," answered Meredith, resting her head on his shoulder.
"You know just for you I'll push my surgery back half an hour. It's all I have tomorrow anyway until one and it's a routine operation the patient isn't in any danger," smiled Derek.
"You'd do that for me?" asked Meredith.
Derek nodded. "I care about you."
"I gotta go I'm on Burke's service today," said Meredith.
"Oh yeah it's the CABG today," said Derek. "Good luck. Hope you get hold the heart."
"Yeah me too," answered Meredith.
She was tired, she nodded for a second and she squeezed. Then surgery was over with no complications and she had a hole in her glove. Tiredness fogged her brain, she scrubbed out and settled the patient into recovery and she headed to an on call room for half an hours kip.
She woke with a start and saw Derek next to her.
"Hey," he whispered, before he handed her a coffee.
"Thanks," she answered.
"How was it?" he asked.
"Good," she answered, with a frown.
"What?" he said. "Come on out with it."
"My finger nail popped a glove," she said.
"Tell Burke," he said. "Chances are it means nothing."
"But it could mean something?" she asked.
He nodded. "If you don't speak up now and something happens then you'll be liable especially if the family find out. Then your looking at a law suit."
She nodded. "I'm going to go find Burke."
She headed out of the on call room coffee in hand. As she spotted the dark surgeon her phone rang. Redbridge Nursing Home.
"Hello," she answered, as Burke walked off.
"Dr Grey hi," answered a lady. "We need to talk to about your mother's assets."
Meredith inwardly signed this was going to be a long conversation. "Can I phone you back in ten minutes. It just I have a patient I need to get to them."
"Sure," answered the voice.
Meredith headed off in the direction Dr Burke had gone and then her pager sounded. Mrs Patterson. She broke into a run.
"What happened?" she asked, as she reached the bed.
"She started bleeding though her incision," said a nurse. "She's going back to surgery."
The headed in that direction not noticing the Mr Patterson heading after them.
"Dr Burke," said Meredith.
"What happened Grey?"
"She started bleeding though her incision," she said.
"Why do you think this?" he asked, as they headed though the door to the OR's.
"This morning my finger nail popped a glove," she said. "Could that?"
"The heart is a pretty tough muscle Grey," he said. "But yes it could."
Ten minutes later. "See this Grey?" he asked.
She stepped closer and nodded. A large tear in the heart wall.
"A nick with a finger nail doesn't cause a large tear like that Grey. Go and get a second patient history," said Burke.
Meredith nodded, scrubbed out and headed to find Mr Patterson. She found him in the waiting room.
"Is she ok?" he asked.
"There is tear in her heart wall. Dr Burke is repairing it now," she answered. "He can tell you more."
"My lawyer says I shouldn't talk to you," he said.
"Pardon?" she asked.
"You popped a glove," he said. "This is your fault."
"How has your wife's health been recently?" she asked.
"No you don't blame this on my wife's health. This was your fault. She was in the best shape of her life she had lost hundred pounds just last year," he answered. "I have nothing more to say to you."
Mr Patterson walked off and Meredith headed in the other direction, while walking across the cat walk to the chief's office her phone rang again.
"Hi sorry," she apologized.
"Dr Grey this is a serious matter," said the lady.
"Yes I'm listening," she said.
Meredith was stood on the catwalk on the phone.
"And the notary can be there at 6:30 too? And the home's physician will be there attest to her mental competency. Okay, is there anything else I need to bring besides my license? My chequebook. 6:30, I'll be there." She hung up as Derek walked up to her.
"Hey I heard," said Derek
"Its a notary thing, a thing to get notarized," said Meredith, thinking Derek had heard her conversation.
"What? The heart thing," he said. "What thing to get notarised?"
"While my mother is still lucid she needs to sign everything over to me," answered Meredith. "Tonight."
"I'm free if you need someone."
"Yeah. That would be nice," she answered.
"So when?" asked Derek.
"6.30?" asked Meredith.
"I'll be there," smiled Derek. "You don't want to talk about the heart thing?"
"At dinner after the notary," smiled Meredith.
"I have some leverage for you as well. Walk with me," he smiled.
"Leverage," she said.
"Cristina and Burke," he said.
"What?" she asked.
He nodded. "Saw them going into an on call room."
"Wow," she said.
"Yeah now go do whatever you have to do," he said.
"I'm going finding Burke," she answered. "I had no idea the patients husband was behind us."
"Go," he said. "I'll see you in a few hours."
The next couple of hours were filled with reviewing patient history and talking to Burke and the chief. Tomorrow she would have a meeting with the hospital lawyers.
With a tired head and weary eyes, Derek drove them to the nursing home.
"I have a surgery I have to go," said Ellis.
"Dr Grey your going to have to come back tomorrow. When's she lucid," said someone. "You should have come earlier in the day."
"I couldn't come earlier in the day I have a life and work and patients," said Meredith. "Why did she put this off for so long? Why did everyone let her?"
Then she took her leave.
Derek goes after her. "Meredith hey, hey."
She turned around and Derek pulled her towards him.
"Why don't we get some pizza and you can come and sleep at mine," said Derek.
"I can sleep at mine," said Meredith.
"With that party going on?" asked Derek.
"Your right. But only sleeping no sex," said Meredith.
"You need clothes for tomorrow?" asked Derek.
"Yeah," said Meredith.
"Stop at yours. I'll get the pizza and meet you there," he smiled.
Next morning. Derek got Meredith to sit down and have a proper breakfast.
"When's your meeting with the chief?" asked Derek.
"In an hour," answered Meredith.
"You have any answers yet?" he asked.
"That heart wall shouldn't have torn," said Meredith.
"Anything in the patient's history?" asked Derek.
"Husband says she was in the best shape of her life. She lost 100 pounds last year," said Meredith.
"100 pounds in a year, how's her muscle mass?" asked Derek.
"Hmm?" she asked.
"Well if she lost 100 pounds in a year. As well as losing weight she would have lost muscle," said Derek.
"And her heart is a muscle so what could be a small tear could become a big one," said Meredith.
"There you go," said Derek. "I think you have your answer. Just execute a better way of telling it next time."
"Thank you," she smiled.
"No problem. Now lets get you to the hospital or your going to be late," said Derek.
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