Chapter 2
Beep–
The heart mentior Batlined with his shrill alarm, and I felt my soul thing away from my body.]
I watched nurses frantically calling for the attending white rushing a rash cart toward my room. I felt a pang of guit
I know death reports are a real pain toll out. Now you have to write another one because of me []
I drifted upward, floating into the operating room
Elias had just scrubbed in and was putting on his surgical |
After all those Eights we’d had. I finally got a chance to take a fresh look at this guy I’d been with for seven years.
Honestly. Ells was still absolutely gorgeous.
fack in med school, it was the way he looked–so focused, so sharp–when he made that first cut during dissection. I guess that was when I decided to pursue him.
Who knew he had a childhood sweetheart waiting in the wings?||
1 Doated behind him and poked his shoulder blade
“You know, I had plenty of people chasing after me too. If you’d just told me about her from the start, I wouldn’t have Insisted on being with you.”
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Els couldn’t hear me. He finished putting on his surgical gloves and walked right through my soul, making me jump.]
was about to snap at him, then deflated
Whatever. He can’t hear me anyway.
The OR doors swung open as a circulating nurse entered with a phone]
“Dr. Shaw, your departmem called about a code blue. Do you need to go check it out?
Elas didn’t even pause while gowning up
“They can handle in themselves. Can’t you see I’m already scrubbed in?
Taghed. That was Elias–surgery trumped everything
Though today, I’d really recommend you check it out. After all, the one they’re coding is me–your girlfriend []
turned and caught a glimpse of Zora’s face beneath the surgical frame, and suddenly, I wasn’t so sure anymore.]]
Between the dead me and the living her, who mattered more to Elias, really wasn’t so easy to say
Zora’s fracture was tricky, and my resuscitation wasn’t going well either
As has frowned while plecing together bone fragments, the OR doors opened again.
“Dr. Shaw, they’re asking if Dr. Adrian Cole can come down to intubate the patient they’re working on.”
The Ok Funa o
I runs on favors and connections too. A purgeon a skilled as Ellas naturally got paired with the beat anesthesiologist
From my ghouly perspective, I figured I was probably a goner–that’s why they were specifically asking for Dr. Cole, the best in anesthesiology
But Ellas refused firmly
“I never nstich anéisgists mid–operation.”
Fire, fine. Zora’s surgery was top priority–mure Important than my life.
I was getting pissed off and made a face th
when the doors opened for the third time, Zora’s surgery was nearly complete
“Dr. Shaw, they’ve been doing CFR for thirty minutes. They’re asking if you want them to contine
Elas slammed his drill onto the instrument tray and finally lost i
“Do you people have any common sense? Call her parents and ask them! If you want my medical opinion, I’d call in-
Inodded in agreement]
Only family can authorize stopping resuscitation–asking Ellas was pretty pointless.]]
After thirty minutes of CPS, from a medical standpoint, my chances were basically zero-
After all, no one’s willing to exhaust every option chasing a miracle–except for the people who truly love you]
