Heartbreak Hotel

A New Rodriquez

Jose Jr
Kate definitely knows how to scream and she did just that as her contractions hit her like crazy. Of course it was during one of my dreams involving us enjoying a sexual fantasy. Talk about raking the winds out of my sails that scream sure did. I look at the bed and call 911 immediately and go try to get towels I need to check her over and see what is going on. Ray and dad taught me a few things just in case this kind of thing might happen. I go unlock the front door and leave it open for the EMT's. The blood is too much and I know that. I try to see the position the baby is in and I can't see it's head. I am trying to remain calm for Kate but I guess the look on my face has given me away. The housekeeper leads the EMT's in and they have to deliver the baby here and now. It is going to be very painful for Kate. I do as told and get a cold cloth and put it on her forehead and I get her her squeeze balls to get through the pain. They are going to need to reposition the baby so they can deliver him or her.

Kate
I wake up screaming in severe pain. I feel fluids between my legs and under my back. It feels sticky Jose is awake now and running around he grabbed towels and checked me to see if he could see the baby yet, he dialed his phone and I heard the 911 operator. He left to go somewhere and he spoke to someone and I couldn't hear what he said because the contraction hit me hard again and a gush of fluid come out again. He got a cool wash cloth and my squeeze balls for my hands so I could use them as a distraction from the real pain. The housekeep is leading EMT's into the room and Jose is trying to comfort me while they ask to examine me. They tell me they might need to deliver my baby right now, but it is going to be uncomfortable and they can't give me anything for the pain. They need to turn my baby around and I need to be held down so they can safely do it. I give an okay and Jose holds me down from one side and another person from the other side while two others are working to turn the baby around. I don't know how long I was passed out but I heard a crying baby and I was on my way to the hospital and feeling drowsy. I black out again.

Enid
Jose called us frantic and on the way to the hospital with Kate in an ambulance the baby and her are in distress. I wake up Eamon and we get our clothing on and head to the hospital. Jose had to answer questions so he needed to get off the phone he asked that we call his dad and her brother.

Eamon
I watch as we finally get to the ER and I let Enid out and I go park. I see Ethan and Ariana park and they join me on the walk to the ER entrance. I tell them what Enid was told by Jose about both mother and baby are in distress.

Grace
I am pulling a overnight shift when the call came for me to check over a newborn baby that was just born and they had to resuscitate him after he was born. He was turned the wrong way and they had to relocate him. He wasn't breathing when he was born and his mother passed out from blood loss. They have him intubated now and his mother is on oxygen and IV's they are transfusing blood as well. I am finally looking at the name and it is Kate Rodriguez and I run even faster to check on the baby first. I want to assure we don't need to operate on him. Soon I see he is stable and I order a series of tests and head to look Kate over. Her OB/GYN is on her way Dr Greene is an excellent doctor. I see how pale she is and they are watching her very closely. She is in the ICU and monitors are on her. She looks bad.

Jose
I am pacing back and forth waiting for word on my son and wife. Dad arrives and Ariana and Ethan walk in with Eamon and Enid came from somewhere else. Dr Greene approaches me and says she will go check on Kate and the baby and will be back when she can. I must look bad because a nurse gives me a change of clothes and shows me where to change into them at and gives me a hazmat bag for my bloody clothing. I follow her and she has me take a shower and put the clothes in the hazmat bag. Lucky for me the scrubs are loose fitting and the top covers up my below my privates. The underwear was bloody as well. I finally get out and the nurse meets me at the door and has me sign for surgery on Kate. Dr Greene arrives and explains why she needs surgery is because she is still bleeding and they need to stop it immediately. I sign it and they are both off and running. It must be pretty bad if they are running.

Grace
I am waiting with the family and explaining that the baby is stable but in the NICU. I will take you guys to see him if you want to. We head up to see the baby and we stand and look at him. I go in and move him to where they can get a closer look at him. He is a full term baby weighing 7 pounds 8 ounces and 23 inches long. He is pinking up and he might be getting off the intubation soon, very soon. The nurse comes just then and takes him to do just that and take him to the regular nursery. All of us follow her to his new location. His father is given first chance to hold him. Enid next and they let the others go in one at a time.