The Choice

Chapter 13

As the ambulance arrived and the paramedic,. Lucy opened its doors. There was a boy whose condition was..........
Neal just looked at me to say something.
But I did not know what to say.
We lifted the boy in the gurney. The boy's mother came and told us sobbing,
" Please save him. He is my only hope.."

I smile and said, " Ma'am we'll try our best."

We rushed the boy to the OR.
"I will have to go and inform Dr.Mediucus, Neal to take the boy and get the OR ready."

I rushed to Dr.Medicus
"Chief, the trauma is that a boy has committed suicide. Okay?"

The Chief replied, " You sure you want to do this?"
I nodded.

I rushed to the OR. I met Neal, he was scrubbing in.
He asked me, " What's the point of booking an OR or even during a surgery. He is dead. And I know that and I know that even you know."

"Well the time will tell you that why are we even trying to save a lost cause."

He said," Okay."
And we went inside the OR and saw the monitor on the left sid of his gurnery.
There was no pulse, no sinus and no V-tac.
I took the clamp and checked the area between his ulna and carpals.
Where he had sliced away his most important nerves.

"Push a 0.6cc of dopamine and start the crash cart and get the v- fib. Neal start manual intubation."

The nurse got me the v-fib and the crash cart.
I took up the debrifillator
"Charge to 150....... Clear."
I shocked his heart.
And I looked at the monitor there was still the blank beeping in the monitor.
"Charge to 200........ Clear."
Still no pulse.
"Charge to 300........ Clear."
Still there was no pulse.

"Time of death 11:56."

There was nothing more I could do I handed the debrifillator to the nurse.The other nurse took my overcoat and I threw the gloves in the bin
"Come along Neal,you have to tell his parents."

He replied,"Me tell his parents?"

" Yeah any problem."
He shooked his head indicating that he was saying no.

We walked in silence till we reached the mother
Neal spoke up," I am sorry for you loss, Dr. Grey did everything she could but I am so sorry."

The mother bursted into tears.
I went up to her and hugged her.
She hugged me back and then let go after a few minutes.
And asked, " Where should I sign so that I can take away his body?"

" Umm you would have to wait for sometime his body is now in the morgue they will clean the blood and give you the body and till then you can go to the reception amd ask for Sierra tell her that your son was my patient, Dr. Grey."

She nodded and and walked away to the reception.
We started walking to the OR where Sia and Jake where taking up Tania Stillwater for the surgery and the Neal spoke,
" This is the reason why you tried to save the lost cause, so that when you went to the parents to tell them the bad news you yourself can believe the line that ' I have tried everything in my power to save him' and also to keep our sanity."

"Yes you are righ Neal."

We walked till the OR and I started scrubbing in if something went wrong then I would had to take over.

When Dr. Webber came and told,
"Don't worry I will observe them but you are called in for the psych evaluation."

My mouth grimaced, " Okay will go Dr. Webber. All the best to all the four of you. Don't fight and do it together okay?"

All of them said, " Okay."

When Dr.Webber said,
" Wow the interns called you Medusa and now they actually admire you."

I smiled and started walking towards the Psych floor.