Recovering From Trauma Chapter 11

Medical:
Beverly looks at her wife’s x-rays to see how bad the damage was. She couldn’t believe the damage to the body armor when she saw it. Whoever squeezed her wife’s leg, had some strength to them.

Wendy watches her wife as she looks at the x-ray of her leg. The nurse had given her a shot for the pain.

“Well, how bad is it?”

“I’m going to need to rebuild your femur, sweetie. Whoever you fought, broke your upper leg and the pieces are digging into the muscles and tendons.” Beverly puts the X-ray down and looks at her wife.

“How long will I be out of service?” Wendy knew she didn’t like this news.

“For the first month, you’ll have to use crutches. After that, you’ll have desk duty until fully healed.”

Wendy hated desk duty. She looked at her wife and said, “Are you sure there’s nothing else that can be done?”

“Sweetie, I know you hate paperwork, but you’ll have to stay off it until your leg is fully healed.”

“This sucks.”

“I know, but there isn’t a fast way to heal broken bones. I’m scheduling your surgery for later in the day.” Beverly inputs the information into her pad.

Wendy watches as her wife enters information into the medical pad. As far as she knew, they managed to capture two of the intruders.

“Now, I wish I could stay and talk with you, but I have other patients to attend to.” Beverly leans in and places a kiss on Wendy’s forehead.

Wendy watches as her wife walks out of the private room. She lies back in bed and enjoys the medication flowing throughout her system. She knew sooner or later the surgeon performing the surgery would arrive quickly.

Dr. Quinn checks on the other patients who have come in with injuries. The security personnel had put up a fight against the intruders. True, the intruders did manage to cripple them, but repair teams were already at work fixing everything.

Dr. Quinn and a few other doctors tended to the injured. There were at least eight security personnel who got injured during the attempted invasion. As for the intruders, they were being detained in a specially designed cell.

Their wounds were being treated, but they were being watched. The security people also took DNA samples to see who they were and what had been done to them. Also, to add to the database Ms. Blake was building superpowered beings.

“Owe! Owe! Owe!” Felica limps to medical as one of the nurses helps her along.

Casey tries to take it slow for Felica. She knew Felica had been hurt fighting the intruders.

“Is the person you fought in bad shape?” Casey knew Felica was one hell of a fighter.

“Yeah, after I managed to get his damn helmet off.” Felica couldn’t believe how hard it was to get the helmet off.

“Well, from the reports that are coming in. Some of them don’t even look human anymore.” Casey escorts Felica over to one of the medical beds.

She helps Felica remove her body armor and the skin-tight suit Felica normally wears underneath the armor. When Casey and Felica remove her
body suit, they spot a huge bruise that covers the whole upper part of Felica’s thigh. The center of the bruise was darker than the outer areas of the bruise.

“I can’t believe one touch to your leg did this.” Casey grabs the portable X-ray scanner and scans Felica’s leg.

Casey looked at the scan and noticed there was a slight hairline crack. It went completely across the femur.

“Damn, I can’t believe the damage one touch did to you.” Casey couldn’t believe how one touch could do this much damage through body armor and a specially designed combat suit.

“You have a hairline crack on your femur, Felica. You’ll need to stay off your leg for a while.”

“Can you give me something for the pain?” Felica could feel her leg pulsating from the pain.

“Sure.” Casey injects a numbing agent into Felica’s leg.

“How long will that last?” Felica normally didn’t like taking pain pills or anything that dulled her senses.

“I’m going to prescribe a mild pain reliever for you.” Casey taps into the prescription.

“I’ll pick it up on my way back to my quarters.” Felica was about to hop down from the medical bed.

Casey stops Felica from hopping down off the medical bed.

“You’re not going to be walking from here, Felica. Let me get you a wheelchair and have you escorted back to your quarters.” Casey steps out of the room.

Felica gathers up all her stuff and waits for Casey to return. She couldn’t feel any pain in her leg. Which was nice, because she was feeling tired and all she wanted to do was lay down in her bed.

After a few minutes, a younger nurse Felica hasn’t met yet comes in with a wheelchair. She helps Felica into a chair and with all of Felica’s gear.

“Home James.” A smile appears on Felica’s face.

“My name is April, not James.”

“Sorry April. It was meant as a joke.” Felica leans back to look at April.

“Oh!” April starts pushing the wheelchair.



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