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All Time Love
Story written on October 7, 2012 by kins40.
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Bette wanted to call, one last time that day, to check on her smallest patient, up on the paediatric floor.
As she travelled the lengthy stretches of the quiet and orderly corridors, on her way to her destination, she cast her mind back on her experience with the tiny six-week old baby boy.
Surgery to her was exhilarating and fun. It was her life, nothing or no one had come close to matching the pleasure, work, brought to her and as much as she was amazed and grateful for the willingness of people to turn their bodies over to her, it always resided in the back of her mind that it was a dangerous thing to do. Granted the patient took all the risk, but harming anyone in her eyes was worse than harming herself.
The potential to do dramatic good with surgery, meant facing with daily regularity the ugly grinning ogre of her fears, at the same time however, never allowing him to take centre stage in her professional life at the risk of paralysing her abilities, but neither dismissing his presence altogether and rendering her dangerous or at the very least careless.
So when the case of this very poorly little boy had presented itself, all her fears had come at once.
There will always be something completely wrong about a tiny baby on a big operating table in a huge OR.
She pictured how she had been able to cover his entire little body with her two hands. All the machinery, the instruments, the drapes, the surrounding team seemed terrifyingly outsized. It was like playing dolls with the staggering difference that it was very real and the stakes were very high.
The surgery had gone like a dream, though. The simple repair of the stomach muscle, quick and trauma-free, which meant that, at long last, the little boy would stop vomiting, keep his food down, start gaining weight again and ultimately revert back to being the perfect baby in his parents’ eyes.
But when the phone had rang in the middle of the night, with talks of her tiny patient with a sky-rocketing fever and a rigid abdomen, Bette had had barely the strength to squeeze her reply to the calling nurse, through her constricted throat, uttering against the strangling resistance, a shaky, "I’ll be right there."
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great story PPS
It IS an emergency if ICU called…so….Maybe we should be rewarded w/a evening post…since it’s an emergency and all! Just saying.
Really like this story.
😁 K you know I love you, right? However, you seem (knowingly or not) to test the boundaries of that love with your cliffhangers 😰 seriously. I still love and am grateful to you and the talent that you continue to share with us 😘
K, ditto with what Talaula said, but the cliffhangers…ugh…I will sit and wait here patiently with an update.
I love the way you skillfully weave the backstory with the current one.
I’m so loving this story..Pps!
😊👍👍👍Thanks Kins for the update!! :-) and … 😓not so thank you for the cliffy :-/ … ;-) you know, with the rate of this kind of hanging, Bette would not only get an emergency call from ICU! As some of the readers might have hyperventilated or heart attack due to the way the chapters are ended!! … Lol.. Though I am sure some of them will willingly have those attacks if only dr Porter 😍 would really handling them with care 😝 PPVS and please oh please… Spare us from the ending like this!? 😰 “…it’s Tina…” Oya, I hope dr Lerner will hold the ethic and not harming the patient.. Though this patient had caused her to be left alone in the restaurant and maybe one of the reason Bette never reply anything whenever she told her she loves her 😳
Wonderful update. OMG, you did it again, you keep inflicting us with that damned jodi, I’m beginning to believe that you do like her after all. As soon as the door slams in her face for the final time will be much too long for me to have had her countenance in this story. She personifies “evil” to me and I just wish she would go away permanently. The story is absolutely wonderful. Thank you for posting.
Now that the ice has been broken, lets see if we can fall into a comfortable routine :PI fall deeper in love with this story after each update. I hope Tina is okay though it seems even in her current state, she still gives Jodi a run for her money. Poor woman never stands a chance no matter the scenario. I’m so excited for the next chapter !
Of all people you had to let Jodie disrupt the perfect dream..and then you end it all with a call from ICU and a cliff – bad, very bad. But thank you nonetheless for an amazing story.
Thanks for the update. I love all the comments about your writing of so many cliffhangers. It means that you are hitting home with all of them. Kudos! I just read along for the ride of a wonderful story coming from your creativity. Thanks!
Man……you’re killing me here!……but great update cuz i had so many question that had been answered.. …hey?..if you’d been a real doc…think you are awesome.
Who said we’re waiting “patiently?!” ;-) Keep up with these cliffies and I’m gonna have to sip something besides tea while I wait for the next one. :-)
I finally caught up. I’ve been gone for several weeks and I’ve been reading like crazy to catch up. You know I always love your story kins, I can barely wait for your update
Hope Tina will be ok
I so love this story already. Thank you
Cliffhanger, tough job, complex relationships, past, present … all the ingredients are there for a very good story. And your beautiful writing!
I love your writing,great story,thank you.PPS
I’m on the edge of my seat….please post soon. The more this story unfolds the more anxious I am to get the answers as to why Tina left and how she ended up in a life threatening car accident. I’m sure you’ll add more questions to my list as the story continues. That’s one of the reasons your stories are so enjoyable….very complex.
Finally catching up. I miss you’re writing when you’re away, but I never realize how much I’ve missed reading your stories until you post something new. This is all kinds of awesomeness Kins, and now that I know you’re back I’ll be on the look out for MORE! .. PS, I see that you’re back to your bad ole cliff hanging ways ;) xx – iHH.