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❝Why do I always end up destroying everything I've ever loved?❞
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|| The Death of a Bachelor || Panic! At the Disco ||
【ɗιαƖσgυє cσƖσя:#EE3B3B ♙ тнσυgнт cσƖσя #FFCCCC】
|| The Death of a Bachelor || Panic! At the Disco ||
Echo's surgery took a bit longer than expected. Her shunt was infected and tied around a large blood vessel. He needed to untangle it, with Ellen's help, the two working to remove the infected shunt and replace it with a shiny new one. They then had to reconnect the thinning blood vessels to a better flow, the Moia Moia having wrecked havoc after being unchecked for so long. Aside from those unforeseen complications, everything went as planned. They closed Echo up, Shiro alerting them of something. "Blood pressure and O2 are dropping," she squeaked behind the sterile mask, her hand holding Echo's. "That's not good, push some-" the heart rate monitor began to beep as it rose. "Dammit, she's septic. When we removed the old shunt, it must have been holding off the infection." Sepsis was a deadly blood infection, if left untreated, it would kill. "Push some penicillin, we're gonna have to move her to the ICU until the infection clears." Wei began to wipe down Echo's chest, putting in a midline so that they could administer medication quickly.
"I'll take her up," Ellen offered. Wei nodded in appreciation. "I can stay with Echo," Shiro said, her tail swishing. Echo was like her child, she wanted to be with her. She thought of every demon baby she had raised as her child, a motherly instinct the little demon had gained. "I need you," Ellen replied with a shake of the head, "we can just get her nurse to come." Elliot saw them in the hall, on his way up to the rehab ward. "How did it go?" He asked, seeing that Echo was still asleep, still intubated. "Not well, there were a lot of nasty surprises in there." Ellen shook her head, she wore her normal, expressionless face. "We're taking her up to the ICU for round the clock care until the infection clears." Elliot nodded, Oliver scowling, "weak," he muttered as they rolled past him.
As soon as Doll and Melody heard, they dropped what they were doing to come. Melody, on her way back from a mission and Doll coming from a meeting. Both of their husbands were hot on their heels, Chis holding Doll's pinkie with his, attempting to reassure his wife. They entered the ICU after cloaking up, a nurse already there to take care of setting up the machines that were currently sustaining their baby sister. "What happened?" Doll demanded, wanting to know why Echo was here and not in the recovery ward. "Echo is currently in septic shock, we've managed to stabilize her, but it's in her best interest to have as little visitors as possible right now. Wei is going to keep her asleep until the sepsis is cleared and the infection begins to resolve itself." Ellen's words, while not unkind, were strict.
"Hello, I was called to take care of things here?" Terra stood in the doorway, wearing a nurse's uniform. Her human worked with the human patients while she worked with the demon ones. Shiro and the nurse assisting her stepped aside, Terra's expression dropping when she saw who she would be taking care of. "Echo-" her breath hitched in her throat. Melody glared, there was still bad blood between the sister's and the girlfriend from Echo's previous life. "Why is it her?" Doll asked, tossing her perfectly manicured hair over her shoulder. "Because we needed a nurse and Terra was assigned to it, it's business. Now all of you out."