Hope Shepherd

Flight

Flying in an airplane is known to mess with your senses. They say that you can get itchy more or more emotional. The oxygen in your blood drops on an airplane, so much that if you were at an hospital doctors would administer more oxygen. If you've done your research no one should really be trusted in the air.

We're at the airport, Amelia and Owen are taking me to a conference with them. Planes make me kinda nervous because my Aunt Lexie died of a plane crash, any minor turbulence disturbes me. Unfortunately this plane ride there was turbulence. The plane swayed and I gripped the arms of the seat. " Hey are you okay?" asked Amelia. " I'm fine... I think," I replied. Suddenly the plane jerked to the side and a guy flew out of his seat and hit the top of the plane.

The plane slowed down a little bit. "I'm a doctor are you ok?" Amelia asked the guy who fell. Amelia got up and carefully walked towards him. "Hope do you mind seeing if anyone else needs help?" she asked me. "Sure," I replied. I slowly got up and walked to the flight attendant. " My mom over there and her friend is a doctor who can help anyone who needs immediate medical assistance I can help to." It's always weird when I have to refer to Amelia as my mom.

On the intercom the flight attendant broadcasted, " If anyone is in need of immediate medical assistance please press the button with the person on it" Another man came over " Hey I'm also a doctor who can help." " thank you guys for all your help" thanked the flight attendant.

" What kind of doctor are you?" I asked. "I'm an oncologist my name is Sean by the way" " Nice to meet you I'm Hope." I replied. " Aren't you a bit young to be helping with medicine." " My mom is a surgeon and I volunteer at the hospital." Owen was waving at me. "I gotta go now bye," I waved. "bye Hope," he said.

" What do you need Owen?" I asked. "This guy has a head lac from what looks like a some metal rod." he reported. The guy was very bloody I wonder where the rod came from. As if reading my mind Owen told me, " The rod flew off the cabin door and impaled his head." " We have to remove it but how do we do it without a head CT?" I asked. "The rod is acting as a tamponade so we can't remove it without him bleeding out but it hit near the brain stem so if we don't remove it he could become paralyzed."

I felt a flashback was about to hit me.

I was on a plane with my mom and dad. There was another man sitting next to my mom who I didn't recognize. He was holding her hand as she was sobbing and my dad was no where to be found. The plane was completely empty just me, my mom, dad, and the strange man. My dad came back holding a file folder with some kind of important seal on it. He told me to go to sleep so I did.

<<End Flashback>>

Someone started sobbing then a baby started to cry which snapped me out of my flashback. Like I said in the air equals more emotional who's to say that the pilot should even be trusted. It's gonna be a long flight.