fire watch - episode 003 - The Delilah fire mystery

part 38 The medical issues

A few minutes later.
Tom came back in looking worried "okay, I explained that Delilah is hurt and in a bad condition, they said this is awful which is obvious, they're deciding to bring in people from different parks from all over the world to really speed up the operation. They might be able to send someone in 2 weeks, maybe, possibly a little longer which I am pissed off about they need to come and get her now however they said they couldn't, they said they had to keep fighting the fire and get to us as soon as they can" Oswin shook her head "they are just so fucking stupid, someone here has a serious medical emergency and they can't come and get her, but hopefully they'll be moving faster now" Tom nodded "I really hope so. Now we all need to sleep it's been one hell of a day, and it's changed our lives forever in the worst of ways" Delilah asked "question, am I sleeping on this bed? Or am I being lifted downstairs? I don't mind which one, I just thought I should ask because you know... I can't move" "oh sorry, I'll lift you downstairs, or do you want to stay up here" "well downstairs would be easier for you 2" he lifted her downstairs, Oswin took the I.V with her putting it next to the bed. Delilah looked at Tom "night dad" "night Delilah, love you, sorry for what happened today, I'll get him I swear to God" he kissed her on the forehead she smiled "love you dad" "love you monkey" she turned to Oswin "night Oswin, thanks for the nice chat, and for dressing me. I can't be bothered to get into my nightwear" Oswin nodded "fair enough, good night" while they were trying to get to sleep, Oswin whispered "Tom... hey, are you awake?" he whispered "yeah" "I can't sleep" "neither can I, knowing that Delilah has suffered a lot today" "yeah, do you want to go on the balcony and have a small convo? That will probably go on for over an hour" he nodded. They got up and went to the balcony drinking beers, Oswin said "I bet you're wishing you'd never come out here" "no" "why?" "Well" he took a sip of his beer "because I met you" she smiled "thanks" "by the way, do you always sleep in those clothes" she nodded "yeah" he shrugged "fair enough?" she was just wearing black underwear. After a long pause, Tom asked "can you get a gun?" she turned to him, then slowly nodded "yes, yes I can but, if you kill him I want to be there with you" he nodded "okay then that's agreed we need to kill him and I have to be the one to do it he tried to kill my daughter and has crippled her for life so I am going to kill him" Oswin nodded "I'll get the gun, I'll get it for you soon" "thank you"
When it was day 141.
Oswin woke up and got Delilah a coffee, Delilah frowned taking it "thank you, I don't think I've ever had a coffee before" "well here's the thing, this happening to you might cause you to start drinking from all the stress, so if you feel like drinking then I'll make you a coffee because it does something" "yeah, I'm not going to lie I was thinking about it yesterday, but this won't break me... I can't even reach the booze anyway, and please don't get them for me, this is not going to break me" Oswin gave her some breakfast looking a little concerned and worried "okay I need to explain something very important to you, I'm warning you now that you need to go to the bathroom for a number 1 or a number 2 it is going to hurt a lot, and it doesn't matter how much pain medication I give it is going to hurt, and there is nothing I can do until we get out of here" Delilah nodded "yeah, I actually do need to go to the toilet now, and I can tell it's going to hurt, and I'm... scared" "I'm scared as well however if we have to do it, I'm sorry but yes you've cracked your pelvis and spine into 4 pieces it's not going to be simple it will really hurt, and it will take a very long time" Delilah thought for a second "holding it will hurt more right? Will it" Oswin paused trying to be delicate then nodded "yeah, it'll hurt either way" Delilah nodded sweat going down her head "alright then... I need it out, let's do it" so Oswin took her downstairs to the outhouse. She waited outside while Delilah went, and it was hard to listen to, Delilah was screaming in pain, Tom woke up from the screaming echoing through place, he came down Oswin explained what was going on in there. She had now been in there for half an hour and hadn't stopped screaming "the more she tries and the further it got, the harder it will be and the more painful and slower it will be, but she's got to do it" Tom stood on the other side of the outhouse supporting her, Tom and Oswin kept saying things like "you're doing really well" they knew that her being in there meant, there was no going back if so she could cause even more damage, and they were there for the long run because they aren't going to leave her for anything.
After three agonizing hours.
She was still screaming in pain louder than anything they had ever heard like she was giving birth, but she yelled that she had finally finished and there was blood everywhere, she had to wait about 15 minutes until the bleeding from her behind stopped. Tom went in and helped her clean up, Tom lifted her back to her bed. She was not in a good way at all, she looked exhausted, and her eyes were puffy like she had been crying, she was completely red, she was sweating a lot, her legs were also violently shaking a lot now which wasn't a good sign at all because she couldn't control it or even feel it at all. She only knew it was happening because it was shaking the entire frame of the bed. Tom looked at Oswin stroking Delilah's hair "Oswin, you're the most qualified person with like medical stuff out of all of us. What do you think we can do?" "Well I think I need to increase the medication, but we do have a problem with that" Delilah had a hand on her sweaty head "what is the problem?" she simply asked trying to concentrate on her breathing "Well, if I increase it by double now, yes she won't feel pain at all, then if I increase it by 6 when she's in the bathroom which should be enough it will be an easier process, but we will run out of medication in a week, so I don't want to run it out, and you suddenly feel the worse pain known to man kind, but it's your decision, do you want to have less pain for 3 weeks, or have no pain for a week than 2 weeks of living hell?" Delilah nodded "okay... keep it as it is, I can do this the pain isn't that bad it's only when I have to go to the bathroom when it kind of... burns really bad" Oswin nodded "okay, now you need to get a lot of sleep because that will relax the body and hopefully the pain will go way, way down" they went upstairs.
Oswin looked very worried.
She leaned against the wall below the window trying to think "I feel bad" Tom sat next to her holding her hand "Oswin, trust me, this wasn't your fault, I don't think it's your fault and Delilah doesn't think it's your fault, no one blames you" she shook her head "no, no it's not that, I just lied to Delilah" "How? What did you lie about?" "Well I said hopefully the pain will not go up, and it will stay the same... but it won't, it's going to so much worse the more time moves on, we haven't got enough pain meds to keep up with the pain levels she is going to have. I don't want her feeling pain, but I can't give her the rising amount of pain meds to compensate for her rising pain because if I do then we will run out then she will feel all the pain from everything which will be bad because I believe her sciatic nerve which is the longest nerve in the body and the most sensitive nerve and I believe it's been torn in half just above her knee and if she feels that pain it will be so bad she won't even be able to think, now the doctors can reconstruct it but until then it will hurt, then on top of that she will feel double that pain because of her pelvis which is in 4 parts, then her spine has been bent at a bad angle, the doctors can fix all that, but they can't fix the walking, we have to get meds from somewhere... wait a minute" her eyes opened wide as she sprang up nearly tripping over Tom's chair, Tom caught her before she hit the ground "what is it, Oswin?" "I know where there might be more pain medication?" She began looking through files on the desk. Tom went to her side "where can we get more?" she moved her hair out of her face still skimming through papers "well, when they delivered the last care packages, they apparently weren't thinking because of all the stress, so they delivered a box for camp Northgate which is of course not there any more, but the report didn't say anything about them taking it... oh my God" she lifted a piece of paper "yeah, it says here they delivered the wrong box, but the report never stated they took it away again, so it might still be over there. For camp Northgate they always give them double Med packs because the camp was full of children who are sick, if it's still over there we will be saved, it's literally the only way that Delilah is going to survive it's our only hope" "and if it isn't over there" Oswin paused "I don't know, she'll have to go through hell"