Yellow Ledbetter

30/90

They had gotten into Switzerland at 7:30 that night. JD had Jane in the OR to place the L-Vad by 8:30. Maura was awake the entire time, pacing as she waited to hear if the L-Vad was working.

Amelia had sat with Maura for a few hours before falling asleep in the arrangement of chairs.

It was around midnight when JD came into the waiting room. Maura had caved in and had fallen asleep around ten. He squatted down and gently shook her.

Maura opened her eyes and saw the Stanford football scrub cap before seeing a smirking JD. She looked over the tattooed black man, looking for any signs of excess blood.

"Hey there." JD horsley said, "Everything went well and I have her in the CCICU. Doctor Yang, Amelia and I are going to have a little war counsel in the morning and in the afternoon we'll come and talk with you about the plan. Is your family on their way?"

"Yeah, they'll be in around noon tomorrow." Maura stretched. "I can take you to her now." JD slowly stood up. Maura nodded before JD woke Amelia up.

JD took them up and led Maura to Jane's room. Maura went straight to Jane's bedside. JD closed the door before turning to Amelia, "I still don't understand how she managed to go all those years with that hole in her heart."

"Is it bad?" "It's huge, a hell of a lot larger than what the MRI said. I saved it to the digital cloud, but now Cristina and I are looking at least five and a half to six hours now than the two we thought we'd need." JD pulled his scrub cap off.

"Shit." Amelia looked over the shorter man and into the room where Maura was stroking Jane's hand, "Are you thinking...?" "Yeah, I don't want to say it, but I have a feeling that Cristina will agree." "Nobody needs to know until after the surgery." Amelia began to walk off causing him to jog to catch up.

"I think they deserve to know, we're operating tomorrow night and if Jane falls under the 30/90 category they need to be prepared." "Damn it Jason!" Amelia snapped, turning around, "Enough. You cannot say anything until after the surgery, her family is already stressed and worried enough we don't need to say anything else."

She stormed off.

***
The rest of the family arrived at the hospital around one had had each taken a turn to see Jane. Normally, the hospital only allowed two family members in a room, but Cristina had made an exception since they hadn't seen Jane in nearly four years.

Around 5:30, Amelia and JD, along with Cristina, showed up at the door. "Hey y'all, this is Doctor Yang, head of Cardio and the lead surgeon for Jane's heart surgery." JD says as Cristina went to read Jane's charts.

"As you all are aware, her surgery is tomorrow morning at seven and we are prepared. Doctor Rizzoli-Isles, may I speak with you in private?" Cristina looked up from the chart, "JD, take the family out to the waiting room please?"

JD led everyone out, but Angela stayed put. "Ma'am, I think it would be best if-" "I'm sorry Doctor Yang, but she is my daughter and anything you have to say to Maura you can say to me." Angela cuts Cristina off.

Cristina looked to Amelia, who nodded in agreement.

"Alright. Now Doctor Shepherd has the easiest part." "Yes, now the tumor is large, yes, but small in comparison to several I have done in the past. I'll make my incision around her scalp and remove the tumor. I'll call the head of plastic surgery here and he'll stitch her up so good you wouldn't have guessed that she had brain surgery." Amelia smiled.

"For Doctor Burr-Montgomery and I, our work is a little bit tougher than we expected. Last night when he was placing the L-Vad, Doctor Burr-Montgomery discovered that the hole was a lot larger than what the MRI showed. Our part went from two hours to almost six. We'll take around an hour to remove the L-Vad and wait for around ten minutes for her heart to beat normally.

"After it beats on its own for ten minutes, we'll put her on bypass and wait for fifteen minutes before placing the mesh. We'll wait for the mesh to pink up which takes no more than a couple minutes before placing the stent and seeing if it takes. Once it does, we'll take her off of bypass and wait ten minutes to make sure there isn't any excessive bleeding before closing her up." Cristina explained.

"How long will it take for her to wake up?" Angela asked. "It depends more on how her brain heals." Amelia said, "We'll have her under 24 hour surveillance."

"Are there any more questions for us?"

***
Back in the waiting room, JD had given the kids cash to raid the vending machine before leading them to a private cubicle. He started to leave when Frankie and Tommy stopped him.

"Doctor Burr, is it alright if we talk in private?" Frankie asked.

JD nodded before leading them into the hallway, "What's up?" "When we were leaving, I noticed a niece put up a sign on the door. It was uh..." Tommy snapped his fingers, trying to remember.

"Thirty-Ninety." Frankie said. JD sighed, "I'm not really supposed to say anything, but it means that she has a good chance of surviving the surgery. She has a ninety percent chance of survival which is amazing considering what all had happened." JD looked at his ring.

"The thirty?" Tommy questioned. "If you'll excuse me." JD started to walk away before Frankie grabbed his shoulder and spun him around. "What does the thirty mean?" He growled.

JD sighed, "Thirty means that she has a thirty percent survival rate after if she decides she doesn't want to fight. If she gives up then thirty percent is what she has."

Frankie and Tommy stared at him in shock. JD went to say something when the over com came on.

"Code Blue CCICU 117. Code Blue CCICU 117."

"Shit!" JD booked it to the room, pulling his scrub cap. "What happened?!" He yells, switching Cristina who was straddling Jane doing chest compressions.

"Her heart began to fight the L-Vad and I have a feeling that if we wait anymore she'll go into heart failure." Cristina turned to a nurse, "Escort Mrs. Rizzoli and Doctor Rizzoli-Isles to the waiting room and call the OR and let them know we're coming down!"

They began to move. Amelia turned around, "Don't worry, we've got her."

Maura stood in the hallway, tears streaming down her face as she watched the love of her life fight to stay alive.