Chapter 81 - Death

The operations went smooth as always. As usual, she was highly praised by the doctors whom she assisted.

It was already nine in the evening, there was no more surgery to be done so she decided to have dinner at the cafeteria with Diana.

When she returned back to the surgery department, she heard Head Nurse Jing's high-pitched voice, "Where is she? Isn't she back yet? Better pick her up at the cafeteria!"

She saw a male nurse who is just new to the department rush towards her direction but when he saw her, he suddenly shouts out, "She's here!"

Her forehead creased, it turns out that they have been waiting for her. When she left the station for dinner it was utterly peaceful and quiet but now it turns into chaos. She wondered, did something happen when she was having dinner?

"Great! Come here. We will be having an emergency operation. The patient is on its way. You will be assisting Dr. Aaron. Get ready and prepare." Head nurse Jing said in an urgent tone.

"Oh... Okay. What's the case?" J nonchalantly replied.

It was the new nurse who said, "Gunshot wound."

With that J walked towards the OR theater and put on the surgical gown then waited for the patient to arrive.

J and Dr. Aaron along with another nurse and the anesthesiologist were waiting inside the OR theater when they heard hurried footsteps outside the OR theater and the sounds of the wheel of the stretcher making its way inside.

The door burst open, Head nurse leads the stretcher with a patient inside. J's eyes widened as she didn't expect the situation to be this severe. The gunshot wound turns out to be multiple gunshot wounds and is a massive trauma. The patient is a male, he is now wearing a surgical gown. An IV drip is hooked to his left hand. The patient is intubated, while a female nurse is beside him pumping an ambo bag connected to a tube in his mouth to keep the patient alive.

The patient is already pale indicating that he had lost a lot of blood. The patient was now transferred to the operating table and is now hooked to the mechanical ventilator to assist him in his breathing.

While preparing the patient head nurse Jing discussed the situation of the patient. The patient suffered eighteen gunshot wounds, two on the neck, eight in the chest and stomach while the rest were in the arms and thigh. The patient had lost lots of blood and is now having a pneumothorax, a condition where there is an abnormal collection of air between in the space between the lungs and the chest wall.

When J heard what head nurse Jing said she went blank. There is a great possibility of the patient not surviving this operation. But then J snaps out of it, Dr. Aaron is a talented surgeon. They will make sure that they will send the patient out of the surgical department alive.

But as time goes by, the situation is getting worse. They haven't taken out all of the bullets in the patient's chest, the patient has lost a lot of blood already.

After two hours the atmosphere in the OR theater is tensed and gloomy. Dr. Aaron, as well as the other nurses, had long been gone except for J who is slumped on the floor of the corner of the OR Theater with her back on the wall. Her eyes fixated on the empty operating table.