Age of the Werecats: The Beginning

Chapter 4

There was a knock at the door and in walked Dr Campbell. “Hi Kiara, how are you feeling?” Dr Campbell asked me. “A bit sore but that’s about it.” “Ok let’s get started,” Dr Campbell said as he set his bag on the table and started to get the equipment he would need to fix my leg.

Another knock on the door and in came two of my other brothers, Josh and Trent. They were carrying an x-ray machine. Dr Campbell went over to them and whispered instructions to them. They started towards me and placed the machine on the bottom left side of my bed.

After placing the machine down Josh and Trent left my room and Dr Campbell came to stand next to me with a needle. “Kiara this is a dose of morphine it will help with the pain. He slid the needle into my arm and squeezed the trigger.

“I am going to have a look before I put you through the x-ray machine.” Dr Campbell said to me. He lifted the blankets off my legs, took one look at my leg and whistled. “You did a great job on it,” Dr Campbell laughed. I groaned “I know it looks terrible. Hopefully I won’t have it when I go back to school.” “I’m sorry Kiara but your leg will take about 6 weeks to heal if not more due to how the break just under your knee is.”

Dr Campbell moved to his laptop and hooked it up to his x-ray machine. There was another knock at the door and Trent walked in carrying a pair of crutches. “Set them over there. Lean them on the desk please Trent,” Dr Campbell said without looking up from his laptop. He kept typing for the next ten minutes. “Ok let’s get this x-ray over,” Dr Campbell said moving the x-ray machine closer to the bed. He placed it over my leg and put the sheet under my leg gently lifting my leg to slip it under.

Dr Campbell walked toward the door with the x-ray button. “Ok Kiara just keep still for me and I’ll take this x-ray. Then we will take a few more the same way but in different positions so we can get a good look at your leg.” “Ok keeping still I can handle,” I told the doc.

Dr Campbell closed the door. He must have pressed the button because the x-ray machine started to make noise. As fast as the noise started it had stopped and Dr Campbell walked into my room again. “Ok now I’ll get you to lay on your side with your broken leg in front of the other one and place the pillow under your knee.” He placed the screen under my knee and walked out my door again. “Ok still for me Kiara.”

The noise came and went again. Dr Campbell took five more x-rays and took a quick look at them on his laptop. “Kiara there are two breaks and three hairline fractures. You will have to keep of that leg for at least eight weeks. I’ll take another lot of x-rays in two weeks to make sure everything is healing right but now I'm going to have to but that bone in your knee into place. It will hurt but it needs to be done,” Dr Campbell told me as he handed me a piece of dall wood. “Put this in your mouth while I do it.”

Dr Campbell pulled my leg straight towards the end of my bed; I bit into the dall wood and stifled a scream. After putting my leg back into position he grabbed two rolls of plaster out of his bag and started to wrap it around my leg.

An hour later my leg was plastered half way up my thigh and had a bottle of little white pills. They had instructions to take them every two hours as pain permits. Dr Campbell left me instructions to stay off my leg and use the crutches if I wanted to go anywhere. I was supposed to stay in bed for at least a week.

After three days of being bed bound I was going crazy with boredom, I had watched all the in the house and couldn’t go out to buy or hire more. I got up with the help of the crutches and walked to my door.

“Kiara get back into bed Dr Campbell said you had to stay there for at least a week, so get back in and I don't want to hear you up for another two hours,” my father called from down stairs. “Yes dad.”