Racing Desires

46. Security

Dean's POV:

Dr Pierce is the one to speak to me, the other two keep in the background. "Well the surgents have finished on Kiara as you can probably guess. At this point they have managed to save her life. Her spleen has been taken out. The metal is out and both her legs are still attached to her.

What so ever, the blood loss was huge. And the damage done to her legs were massive. The blood hadn't been flowing into her legs for a whole while. Besides the bone crashes, we can't say if her legs will ever fully function again. Nerves were trapped and not supplied by blood. And within the next few hours her legs are going to swell up due to the damage too. This might cause the main blood vessels and nerves to be trapped again.

And then there's another issue we wanted to talk to you about. With this massive amount of injuries she has to recover from now, we would usually keep her in an artificial coma. But with the babies", he breathes in deeply before heading on.

"They already are at a very high risk. The whole trauma caused to the body, is stress for the babies, all the medication and painkillers Kiara needs. And it being the first trimester...", he trails off.

"Dr Pierce talk to me. What do I need to know, or do? Do I need to decide whose life to save or what is this about?", I'm getting impatient and anxious.

"Kiara's still under narcotics right now. If we keep her in coma it means more narcotics and Kiara could heal better without enduring all the pain. At the same time it could harm the babies. Waking Kiara up on the other hand would lead to much more pain for her and stress to the body. Stress to the body could cause her to lose the babies too."

"So you want me to decide whether to keep her in narcotics or not? Because either way we could lose our babies, do I understand this right?"

"Yes."

How the hell do I decide on this one? Either way I could be killing our twins and what about Kiara? Could she deal with being awake and enduring the pain?

"When do I have to decide this?"

"I'm afraid now. The narcotics are already starting to wear off."

"I need at least a couple of minutes to think this through. What about Kiara? She's out of life danger now though, right? There's just the question how much damage is left behind, right?"

"I'm afraid it's more complicated than that. We don't know what other issues might occur within the next couple of hours or days. This wasn't just a small accident. Hidden injuries could still come up or problems due to the surgery or problems with the healing. So many risks, you know I've always been honest with you and I'm not going to start hiding things now. This is still very critical and things can change from one moment to the next but from what we can say for the moment, she has passed the worst."

So this means I could still lose her. I'm unable to take the decission what to do next.

"Is there anything we can do in between coma and her being totally awake?"

"This wouldn't be the normal procedure, but I guess we could keep her slightly sedated. So she's not fully gone, but her body wouldn't be quite so stressed. It would probably mean more painkillers though. And yet I think this is a possibility to try for the safety of both mother and babies."

"What if it doesn't work, if it's too much stress to her body?", I don't know where all these questions are coming from, but I need to know all of my options and what risks come with it. No way I'm going into this blindsided.

"We could always go back to the first option and put her into coma."

"Ok, then we'll go with the path in between."