Just a quick Jessica piece I write.
The Secret Life Of Casualty.
Chapter 329.
It's peaceful when she feels herself falling. She's not in pain. At least not at first. It's when her body hits the cold water, she realises she's drowning and there's nobody around to help her. She has to fight to save both her and Harry. But how? She's trapped and the water is raising, she's going to suffocate. She tries to bang on the door, but the car is abandoned deep in the water.
The door opens and Jessica feels a glimmer of hope as she see Adam, whose dived back down to save her and their baby. She reaches out, but she's stuck, it transpires her foot is caught in a seatbelt. Adam frees her foot and pushes her out, but as she does, her arms that had felt heavy with the weight of Harry in them, feel empty. It's then she realises she's dropped him.
Tucking an arm around his wife's waist so he can drag her to safety, he's hit by force, she is pushing him away, so she can find their son. He grabs her by waist so he can pull her to safety, their son forgotten.
She's now lying on a RESUS bed, an oxygen mask on her face, doctors surrounding her bed.
"Temps still down at 28. 9. " Charlie mentions
"I know it hasn't come up much, but it's still come up right?" Adam questions, desperately.
"It's come up much, but it's just too slow the peritoneal lavage just isn't working, it's soon, going to affect her heart. "
He can't watch her slip away, not after braving cold waters to save her. Nick Jordan takes Adam aside and mentions they could put her on cardiac bypass. Adam agrees.
Nick Jordan performs the life changing surgery.
After the operation, she's sent up to ITU where she will be put in to a coma where she can rest.
It's been a few weeks and Jessica's made no sign's of coming out of the coma. Adam looks at Jessica lying on the bed. She's got a tube up her nose, a pulse oximeter on her finger. A ventilator breathes for her, as she's unable to do the task of bringing air in to her own body, a body which has been battered and needs to recover.
The doctor starts to talk about taking Jessica off the ventilator to see if she can start breathing for herself.
Adam's paged when it's time to turn the ventilator off.
"Are you ready?" The doctor asks when Adam reaches her side room.
"Yep, " He responds bluntly.
The doctor disconnects the tube and then places his stethoscope on her chest. There's nothing for a few moments before she takes small breathes, Adam has never felt so relieved.
"It's ok, " Adam says, popping an oxygen mask over her face to help her breath.
She tries to remove the oxygen mask, but Adam puts a hand over hers. "Jess, don't. " He says quietly. He sits on the edge of the bed.
"Harry?" She whispers.
He shakes his head.
She turns away from him as tears fall down her cheeks. One thought is in her mind:
"It should have been me"
Thanks for reading.
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