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Molly, the other nurse, scrubs atthat smells like alcohol, and Sara takes my left arm and wraps a blood pressure cuff around it
Holy crap, they’re coles
“It’s just going to be a little stick, okay?” she asks, but she gives me zero time to respond
No countdown No warning No ti wasted today at this ame
Without preamble, Molly shoves a sharp needle into my arm, and the pain is so instant, so intense, I damn near levitate off the dentist chair
“Holy flapjacks!” The words shoot fromout in pain
Is she starting my IV with a shiv?
“Sorry about that I’ll be done in…” I’ like in a jiff, but instead, it trails off into nothingness Panic sets in immediately
“You’ll be done in…?” Soon? For the love of everything, tell me you’ll be done soon
“Hmm…” Molly mutters to herself while she fiddles around with the needle that’s still in my arm
To the left, to the left To the right, to the right
If I didn’t know better, I’d think she was trying to reenact the Electric Slide with a needle dancing around inside s, but at least then there’s alcohol!
Jiain
“Sara,” Molly whispers,like a third wheel at ery date, I decide to just shut
“Yeah?” Sara responds
“Does this look right?”
“Uh…” Sara pauses “Yeah, I think so?”
I think so? Holy shit
“I guess I’ll just hook it up to the fluids to see,” Molly responds, and I feel a s and pull on my arm
“Oh my God,” Sara says a little too loud, and my eyes pop open “I think you put it in her artery instead of her vein”
Wait…what?
I glance down atuntil it reaches the bag of fluids hanging above le episode of Grey’s Anato blood transfusion, IV tubing shouldn’t have blood inside it Nor should it be filling the IV fluid bag
The room turns to chaos in a matter of seconds
“Shit,” Sara mumbles and quickly yanks the IV out of my arm and holds pressure The blood-stained IV fluid shoots out of the tubing and onto the floor, and Molly scraauze pads and God only knohat else
Circus music plays inside my head, and blood loss aids in the hallucination of an elephant or two on my chest