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Chapter 27



“Let me look at you – how are you kitten, how’s the foot, hmm?”

Buffy grinned and gave him a peck on the lips

“Nuh-uh, no doctor William, not today! I’m great thanks”

“Yes, you are, aren’t you” Buffy blushed and was pleased when he homed in for another kiss, giving her a gentle squeeze

Tactfully again, Joyce came down stairs saying,

“Would you like some tea or coffee?” They broke apart and grinned at Joyce

“Great, please, anything that’s going, I’m not fussy”

“Morning coffee coming up – now you two go and sit down”

“Are you sure there’s nothing I can do to help – I must have set you back at least half an hour” William asked Joyce

“No, honestly, everything is under control – just you sit and relax!”

“Mom has everything arranged with military precision in there!” Buffy said, hobbling back to the sofa.

While waiting for the coffee machine, Joyce saved time and whipped the cream for the trifle, and then when the coffee was ready, she took it in on a tray, and sat with them

“Presents, I think!” She announced and stood and went to the tree

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After watching the black SUV pull out into traffic forlornly Dru turned to her desk and sat down, she splashed another quadruple measure of vodka into her coffee mug and let the tears stream down her face for what COULD have been.

She took a couple of gulps of vodka and closed her eyes.

Next thing she knew, somebody was knocking urgently on her office door, but as the blind was down and she hadn’t put the light on, they couldn’t see in, and she had had the presence of mind to lock it…

“Dr Tate…Dr Tate, are you there, Dr Tate, there’s an emergency coming in…oh god where are you…”

Whoever it was left and Dru stood she swayed a little, yawned and thought she’d better go and splash her face with cold water.

After splashing her face she went to the elevator and pressed.

A woman, one of the admin secretaries came through the fire doors and looked relieved

“THERE you are! Your beeper must be off – I’ve been looking for you, there’s an emergency coming in, a road traffic accident”

The sirens of the ambulances could be heard as they got into the lift

Dru made two attempts to press for ground, missing the button the first time.

The secretary studied Dru and said

“It sounds bad, first reports say four vehicles have been involved”

Dru mumbled something about being all she needed, and had to really push herself forward off her shoulder to get out of the lift.

The first paramedics were through the doors, holding up drips and trying to staunch blood as they trotted in with the first gurney’s having the worst injured patients

Unsteadily Dru looked down the waiting line of doctors and nurses waiting to take the casualties to the cubicles.

She made her way to the end.

When it got to her turn, the paramedic said,

“This is Nicola, she’s been in and out of consciousness since we picked her up, she has trauma to the head and stomach crush injuries, administered two units of cross match blood at the scene, and 10CC adrenalin – her blood pressure is low, barely 75 over 50”

Dru stood there impassively the paramedic frowned

“Did you hear me – “

“OKAY, what do we have here…” one of the big male nurses pulled the gurney into one of the cubicles and said

“Shall I order more blood, Dr?”

“What – oh yes, yes, carry on…um”

“I’ll get the blood, you set up the IV”

“Right, IV, IV, um…” Dru looked at the girl, and began to fumble with a syringe packet off the emergency trolley

The curtain swished open and a young nurse was literally horrified with what she saw – Dr Tate trying to stick the needle into the back of the girls hand, after clumsily sticking it into her own finger first, blood poured out of the needle injury on Dru’s finger and just ignored it

“DOCTOR – NO! DOCTOR – Gloves – where are your rubber gloves, you’ve stuck yourself with that needle, you can’t –

“What’s going on?” Another Dr, a Dr Rae swished open the curtain. Dru was swaying all over the place, and suddenly the patient went into crash and flat-lined, all the alarms went off. Dr Rae quickly swung into action; he shoved Dru out of the way towards a passing orderly

“Get her out of here – you get me four pints of cross match, you tell me her systolic number and you all stand back…”

The doctor administered the shock pads to the girl’s chest, and jolted her.

They all watched as the girl was still flat-lining……

“130 this time…ready, stand clear” – he jolted the pads again and the girl’s body jumped and the beep started again to show they had got her heart started. Four people worked on the girl, they managed to source the bleeding and staunch it, give her some pain relief and her blood pressure systolic number crept back up.

The orderly had sat Dru down on a chair by the office

She felt really drunk and could barely sit up straight

Dr Rae could be heard saying,

“………And she needs to be operated on immediately, she has a ruptured spleen and a crushed liver – her kidney’s will need to be checked too…” He clicked off his pen and put it in his pocket, swishing open the curtains; he stared angrily at Dr Tate

“What the HELL do you think you’re playing at?”

Dru looked up at him swaying, her face crumpled and she whined out something unintelligible.

Dr Rae frowned and was quickly joined by Dr Gupta and the big male nurse

“Get her OUT of here – the state she’s in she’s a COMPLETE MENACE”

“Come on Dr, lets get you-“ The male nurse took her arm, but Dru pulled away frowning and crying

“No, I won’t…I won’t go…I mean go where…I don’t want to be on my own…” the rest was unintelligible again as Dru’s tears, drool and snot ran down her face. She sniffed and tried to wipe her face on the back of her arm, but she felt a rushing sensation and she realised that they’d put her in a wheelchair.

After putting her in an empty private room, the nurse put her in the recovery position so she wouldn’t choke if she was sick, and locked the room door. He went down to the ER and one of the secretaries told him that Dr Rae wanted to see him

“I want a full report on what happened, but you can just tell me now, okay?”

“Yes Dr Rae. The medic came to us and told us the girls status, she was obviously critical, with head trauma and stomach crush injuries, he told us he’d administered cross match blood at the scene and her blood-pressure was dangerously low, I pulled the gurney into the cubicle and thought that Dr Tate would immediately call for more blood and would be setting up an IV for it”

“So what happened?”

“Well Dr, she just looked at the patient like she didn’t know what to do, so I said, shall I call for some cross match while you set up the IV”

“Then what happened?” Dr Rae asked

The male nurse shrugged and said,

“I don’t know Dr, I left immediately to get the blood, I knew it was vital”

“Thankyou Nurse?”

“Collins, Dr. Rae, Jeff Collins”

He left the office and one of the secretaries had her hands on the shoulder’s of another nurse, the one who tried to stop Dru sticking the needle into the girl’s hand after Dru had stuck it in her own finger.

“This is Sally Parfit Dr Rae”

“Come in, now there’s no need to be worried or scared, you did a very good thing here today and I want you to tell me in detail, okay?” The nurse smiled and went inside the office to give her account of things.


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“Perfect fit – how did you know my size?” William marvelled at the fit of the cashmere sweater, holding out his arms and looking at the body of it fitting perfectly.

“I have an eye for these things! Now…this one!” Joyce said

“Oh no, it’s YOUR turn…here this one’s for you and this ones for…hold on…no that’s right, yellow and gold stripped for Joyce, pink an silver for Buffy” William handed the two women the prettily wrapped packages

“You must have spent HOURS wrapping these – it’s almost a shame to rip it!” Joyce said

Buffy had no such qualms and tore open the paper. She took the pure white box out of the wrapper, tore off the cellophane and opened the box

Taking out the perfume she took off the top, sprayed and sniffed

“Oh WOW – THAT is BEAUTIFUL!” Buffy sniffed again, instantly loving the fragrance

“Actually, it IS, look!” William showed her that’s what it was called and they all laughed

“Your turn mom!” Buffy said and Joyce was far more carefully than Buffy took out her perfume and sprayed

“Oh – oh William, it’s lovely – delightful – I can smell freesias…lily-of-the-valley – oh it’s so lovely – thankyou!”

“Next there’s this, but it’s a kind of present for all of us – you DO like champagne, don’t you?”

William drew out the magnum of Dom Perignon and handed it to Joyce

“Oh my goodness! I’ll go put it in a bucket of ice immediately!” Joyce stood and took the double sized bottle out with her.

“Champagne! I LOVE Champagne ! Buffy said grinning.

“Good, but no dancing around on that foot now!”

“I know…here it’s your turn, open this one!” Buffy handed him a small box

“You have me spoiled!





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