Dakota Elise Green
July 4
10:40 pm
"Thank you for staying over for me Dakota. This hospital has been busy all day and it would be impossible to keep up without all of y'all helping" Dr Wright said as she walked into the break room, sticking a bottle of water into the fridge.
I took my face out of my phone long enough to plaster a fake smile on my face "No problem. I'd rather be working 10 plus hours instead of sitting around watching fireworks and eating food fresh off the grill"
She laughed at the sarcasm in my voice meanwhile I stuck another plain lays chip in my mouth. The door to the break room opened and Aliyah, another nurse and friend of mine, walked in holding two folders
"Dr Wright, now I already have 3 patients to check on and y'all just gave me 2 more?"
"What?" She walked over to Aliyah and looked at the two folders
"Some 8 year old with food poisoning and a gunshot wound victim that just got outta surgery. You can't see if somebody else can get one of these?"
As soon as Aliyah said that I let out a sigh and just like I expected, Dr Wright looked over at me. I sat my chips down and slapped my hand on the table as I stood up
"Fine. Just know you owe me"
Aliyah smiled while handing me a folder "thank you so much kota. Now I gotta cook you dinner one day"
"Eww no" I responded with my face frowned up then looked in the folder, keeping the frown on my face as I looked at Aliyah again "wait no! Why I gotta get the gunshot wound? Let's switch"
"Too late" she quickly replied "like I said, I owe you"
I rolled my eyes as Aliyah hurried out of the room. I looked at the folder again and saw that he was in room 334
"How long has he been outta surgery?" I asked Dr Wright. She looked at the folder again
"Mr Gaulden... about an hour. He just need his vitals checked and see if he's still feeling any pain. We already gave him some pain reliever but you know sometimes they might need something stronger"
"Sounds cool to me" I nodded while closing the folder. As I was about to walk out of the break room Dr Wright stopped me
"Dakota, before you go in there ima warn you"
"What?"
"Mr Gaulden's not an easy one"
"Whatchu mean by that?"
She laughed a little "you'll see"
"Dr Wright, we gotta 'nother gunshot victim coming in" one of the EMS workers warned as he jogged into the break room. Dr Wright sighed and shook her head
"It's the 4th of July. What did I expect?"
She then jogged out of the break room and I looked at the folder again.. room 334
"Lord bless me cause I don't have time tonight" I lowly prayed while walking out of the break room.
All over the hospital there was so much commotion going on but like Dr Wright said, what did we expect. It's the 4th of July. People with food poisoning, burn victims from fireworks or something involving the grill, people being shot and even simple things like scratches from a fight at a cookout. I calmly made my way through everybody as I went to the elevator, luckily snagging one to myself. I hurried and closed the door going to the third floor. Once the doors opened it was yet again busy between the nurses running around and visitors coming to see a loved one. I walked through the people and headed over to the nurse hub in the middle.
