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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2008 17:33:24 GMT -5
“I’m here,” Tobias mumbled blinking. His head felt heavy and the strong combination of all the perfume made his eyes water. The pain was still there, but he couldn’t feel it much, and not knowing whether that was a good thing or not, he said nothing.
The ambulance arrived quickly and the EMTs worked fast, unloading the gurney and paddles. “Where is he?” One of them asked, while the captain called for the women to step aside. The rain had slowed, though still managed to soak everyone who exceeded the awning’s boundaries.
The captain looked down at Tobias, who could barely keep his eyes open, and then to Caroline. “How old is this guy? You know him?”
The gurney was collapsed and the captain asked Caroline to step aside so that the team could do their job and so that he could ask her questions. “He’s not breathing!” One of them shouted, and they hoisted him up into the ambulance so that rainwater wouldn’t interfere with the paddles. They did everything in a manor of seconds, and the captain was asking Caroline questions while trying to get her in the back so that they could take him to the hospital.
"He stinks of tobacco," mumbled one of them as she turned on the paddles. "How much does he smoke?"
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Post by Tempest on Jul 14, 2008 17:48:07 GMT -5
Caroline shakily answered all the questions she was able to answer and tried to move her body to obey the instructions the EMTs were giving her.
As she climbed into the back of the ambulance, she heard that last question and said simply, "Two an hour, he says... he used to smoke more."
She sat down in the back of the ambulance, forgetting about her date with Hector later, forgetting that she wasn't supposed to think of Tobias so possessively, forgetting everthing but the fact that Tobias was having a heart attack and that she needed to be with him at this moment.
Still, she managed to get a little angry. It kept her from crying an dried up the tears in her eyes.
F****** idiot! Tobias, what the HELL?!?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2008 17:59:57 GMT -5
The female EMT tittered her tongue as she rubbed the paddles together. The Captain ripped open both Tobias’s white button-down shirt and his black undershirt. They lubricated his chest and the metal paddles. They slipped some rubber between his teeth. “Clear!” said the female and she hit him with full force.
Tobias’s torso jumped and collapsed shaking the gurney. They waited, watching the monitor. The woman was about to hit him again but with a beep and the green line darting upward on the screen meant that he was stable. They removed the rubber peace and put a breathing mask over his nose and mouth.
The Captain took out a clipboard. “Okay, just a few more questions…Don’t worry, miss, he’s stable now.” The Captain looked from Tobias to Caroline and back again. He had never seen a heart attack victim so young before and it got him thinking about his own kids. “Lets see…a smoker. How old, how tall, what age, what weight? He looks a little thin…Does he drink? What are his eating habits? Does he stress easily? By the looks of those white hairs at his temples… Any past, present or current drug use? Does he have family, spouse, children of his own that should be contacted? Answer as many as you can.”
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Post by Tempest on Jul 14, 2008 18:12:57 GMT -5
Caroline breathed a sigh of relief, but she still didn't like seeing Tobias like this. "Errr... he's twenty-four.... six four, six five, I think... and I don't know his weight... if it helps, he just put it on- it was only maybe a month and a half ago that he was underweight." She felt so awful about not knowing the other information... but then again, she wasn't his doctor or his girlfriend, so she shouldn't be expected to know.
"Ummm... he's an irishman... I don't know about his drinking habits as of late... He probably still drinks some... and I guess he gets stressed sometimes... I don't know. Yes, past drug use. Yes, he has family to contact... no spouse, though. Only... I don't have their phone numbers or anything..."
And now the crying occurred. Bloody hell- the man was stable, dammit! She burst into tears and hid her face in her hands.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2008 23:55:49 GMT -5
All Tobias could think about was how he was not ready to die. S many times he had wished death upon himself and now that he was slipping back and forth, he was not ready. He no longer wanted it. He had a reason to live…he had his daughter…he had his family back home. He wanted to be right with the world before he left it, not some big depressed oaf that couldn’t do a single thing without disappointing someone.
It hurt when the paddles pushed life back into him, more than it should have. He felt his insides twist and pull as collapsed against the gurney. He heard a woman’s voice say that he was stable. He heard Caroline crying, and he was happy that it was her next to him and not some stranger, or worse, no one at all.
No he was not ready to die.
||Ooc: Well, there we have the closing statement. This board is finished!||
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Post by Tempest on Jul 15, 2008 5:11:53 GMT -5
||Alrighty! Next time I see Seren, I'm just going to ask if we can tie up that loose end after the fact. I'm beginning to lose track of what I wanted to do.||
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