Chapter 35 Silvy Another long night at work. I should be used to it after doing it for so many years but tonight is dragging and I'm exhausted. Not to mention my feet and back are killing me. I can hear my bathtub calling me from here. I am fantasizing about a bubble bath, a bag of cereal and a cup of chamomile tea. My fantasies used to be about shirtless sweaty men with six-pack abs and tattoos. Okay, mainly Goof. And still do sometimes when I can't have the real thing. Now at six months pregnant it is bubble baths. I expect I will have sexy men's fantasies again. Just not tonight. The shift is normal so far. Well normal for the emergency room. We had a few cases of food poisoning. One broken arm from falling off a ladder. A kid with an allergic reaction to a bee sting. Not a major reaction thank the heavens, just a bad rash and a welt around the sting site. Poor guy had never been bitten before so his parents didn't know. I just finished stitching up my patient. Yes, I do that. This leaves the doctors open for more serious cases. Anyway, I will be glad when I can get this guy out of here. He gives me the creeps. In my gut, I feel he is on something. What? I don't know. He has been jittery since he came in. Constantly bouncing on the bed and looking around. Scratching at sores on his arms. He said he cut his hand trying to cut a chicken but I'm not buying it. Even if he washed his hands I should have found something in his cut but I didn't. And the cut was too perfect to be an accident so it leads me to believe he is drug seeking. I can't say anything. I just have to do my job and sent him on his way. I wrap his hand and tell him to sit tight while I get his discharge papers. Megan is flirting with one of the interns when I get back to the desk. Great. When I sit down to type out my patient's instructions and prescriptions Megan asks "That the last patient?" "Yea," I told her. " Good, I'm going to take my break," she said. Megan doesn't wait for my answer just walks off. The intern is on her heels. Fucking great. Her idea of a break is having a quickie in the storage room. How do I know she is in the storage room? That is her favorite place to hook up. I have walked in there a few times to get something to find a used condom on the floor. I made the mistake of walking in on her once and saw her giving one of the lab techs a blow job. Now I listen at the door before I open it and yell when I do. I grab the papers I need off the printer, open the curtain, and go to my patient. "Alright Mr. Kendall, I have your care instructions for your stitches. I also have a prescription for an antibiotic for you." I told him as I handed him a pen to sign. "What about pain meds? " he asked as he signed the last paper. He was officially not my problem. I just needed to get him out the door." You can take ibuprofen for pain and swelling," I said. Mr. Kendall gets up off the bed yelling "This is bullshit. I'm in pain. Ibuprofen ain't gonna cut it. I need something stronger." I knew it." I'm afraid I can't give you anything stronger," I say calmly. Even though on the inside I'm shaking. Things like this can turn bad quickly." Then get that sorry-as octor back in here to give me something," he screams. "I'm sorry but the doctor is unavailable right now. If you have any issues you can call your doctor in the morning or come back in the morning." I said. And then he will be someone else problem. I hope security hears him yelling and gets their asses in here. Chapter Comments 2 Write Comments SHARE 1/1