Love in Paediatrics Book 1: Love in Paediatrics Hospital Series, #1

By Michael Hutchinson

Love in Paediatrics is about two medical professionals discovering love and healing after their years of hardship and suffering and through God's intervention, guidance and love, they meet and together they heal each other and themselves while finding love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Hutchinson
• Release date: Jun 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393794783

Michael Hutchinson

Pastor Michael Hutchinson, resides in Port Elizabeth, South Africa and at the start of the South African Covid-19 lockdown, after spending many hours spiritually communicating with God, together they started creating books with hidden and visible messages of healing from the Almighty for others. Due to the lockdown, and with Michael's back slowly getting worse since the accident in 2018, on top that his is a chronic Asthmatic, he with his family chose to self-isolate in precaution of possible infections and this also resulted in no income as their work from home business suffered dramatic lose of income due to their client's in isolation in the lockdown.

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Michael Hutchinson

2020 Copyright to MC Hutchinson and the Hutchinson Family Trust

Acknowledgments

I wish to acknowledge and thank my wife, Sheroda for her help in investigating locations and assisting with other research and my friends for their support in proofreading this book and suppling their valued critiques.

I would like to thank Greenacres Hospital for allow me to protrade their hospital in this book is as a real location and most descriptions are real.

All places mentioned in this book are real while the story involving them is fictional.

But most of all I want to thank God for His guidance and influence in the writing of this book, as it was Him who provided me with the stories.

Declaration

All persons and stories on the characters are also purely fictional. This novel’s story and characters are fictitious. Certain long-standing institutions, shops, premises, agencies, and public offices are mentioned, but the characters involved are wholly imaginary. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental, except where mentioned.

Copyright

Certain long-standing institutions, hospitals, shops, premises, agencies, cities, suburbs and public offices that are mentioned are true and real, but the characters involved are wholly imaginary. This book is a pure fiction work, and any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental, except where mentioned

All cities, towns, suburbs mentioned are real wither in South Africa or elsewhere.

Cover Illustration Copyright © 2020 Hutchinson Family Trust

Cover design © 2020 Hutchinson Family Trust

Book design, stories and production © 2020 Hutchinson Family Trust

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Book Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eigthteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter One

Nurse Simmons! Nurse Simmons to OR2. Nurse Simmons to OR2 STAT came an announcement over the radio/PA system of the hospital. Jessica Simmons, 34, who is the Paediatric Critical Care’s Advance Nurse Practitioner at Greenacres Hospital in Port Elizabeth, South Africa; was sitting in the hospital dining area of the coffee shop enjoying her long-overdue break when she heard this announcement. Jessica quickly looked at her pager which should have sounded and saw the pager unit was dead. ‘Drat – bloody batteries again!’ she mentally shouted to herself. As no cellphones were not allowed in many departments and wards, she didn’t have hers’ with her as she just slipped out for a quick very late lunch break to get something to eat and drink, to recharge her body’s fuel.

She quickly shoved the last of the sandwich she was eating, and after tossing the food container away, she grabbed her coffee-to-go and raced to the stairs next to the lifts, she slipping past an elderly couple – shouting ‘Sorry!’ she raced onwards, bypassing the lifts and ran down one flight to the theatres, there she met up with the theatre head sister and after washing her hands, she dons the surgical gown with gloves and mask. Then after been directed to OR2 and leaving her items in the care the Theater’s head Sister, she entered the Operating Room Number Two and after reporting Nurse Simmons as requested – who called me?

Dr Jason Thomas was busy stitching up his patient after 6 hours surgery to a young 6-year-old boy - who was undergoing an emergency hip and pelvis repair after he was in a hit and run incident by a mini-bus Taxi earlier that morning. Dr Thomas, 41 visiting from Cape Town was actually visiting Port Elizabeth to come to conduct a free surgery to a ‘Make-a-Wish’ recipient and hearing about this patient severe injuries, he stepped in to assist Dr Gow who was one of the Hospital’s senior Orthopedics Surgeon. Earlier Dr Thomas and Dr Gow were in a middle of pre-consult for the life-changing operation to the ‘Make-a-Wish’ patient when Dr Gow got a call about this little boy and Dr Thomas offered to follow while to touring the hospital and him in action; he ended up assisting Dr Gow as this boy had multiple fractures and injuries.

Nurse Simmons, called out the doctor at the patient’s right shoulder, and Jessica recognized the voice as Dr Gow. She walked over to him while noticing another doctor was assisting and wondered who this was. She saw extreme precision in the way he was doing the stitches and knew this was a very experienced doctor. Nurse Simmons, I need you to take over the care of this young boy. Mark Hammonds, age 6, hit and run early this morning by a taxi. Fractures to the right shoulder, humorous, and ulnar with extensive fracture to the left hip and pelvis. I want him under sedation for at least four days. Melanie Dr Gow’s Theater Sister Melanie Greens, will give you the details and hand the patient over to your special care. With Jessica nodding, she headed over to Melanie where she was standing making notes in the patient’s chart and as she approached, she heard Jason, I am almost done here. I see you are finished. Why don’t you go have a break or go over so long to see Misty and I will join you shortly. I really do appreciate your help; he wouldn’t have survived without your help.

Jessica froze when she heard Misty’s name, the currently privately famous patient of the paediatrics department, the ‘Make-a-Wish’ recipient who was waiting for the Legendary World renown Pediatric Neuro-Orthopedics Surgeon Dr Jason Thomas, who was due any day now to come see her after volunteering to come to perform a very dangerous spinal repair to, hopefully, give little 13-year-old Misty use of her body after a freak swimming accident caused multiple spinal injuries, resulting in complete paralyzes of three-quarters of her body. She looked at the second doctor, now knowing it was Dr Thomas and was mesmerized by his delicate surgical manner. She could see he truly cared for the patients while his skill was beyond anything she had ever seen. Then he looked up to her and with their eyes locking onto each other, she was frozen and drawn to these gorgeous blue eyes.

Jessica called Melanie and breaking the trance, she hurried over to Melanie who she could see was smiling from her eyes. I see another person has fallen for Dr Thomas’ masked-face-mysteriously-divine blue-eyes she whispered, and Jessica blushed under her mask. Then Melanie was all business and proceeded with the handing over of the patient. While they were busy, Dr Thomas left and shortly afterwards Dr Gow followed after stopping to chat to Melanie and with his face now unmasked, he smiles of thanks to Jessica and left the theatre to wash and change. With Jessica now in charge, she conducted her own set of checks and after satisfied she granted the orderlies permission to wheel the patient to PICU where he will stay for 1-2 days then move to into a normal room in Pediatrics Ward. With Jessica following, they wheeled the sleeping patient to the lift and arriving on the floor, they exited and entered the Pediatrics ICU Ward where they were met with the waiting Sister-in-Charge of PICU and a team of nurses. While the nurses transferred and then hooked little Mark Hammonds up to their monitors, oxygen and other units. Jessica stood at the foot of the bed and reported the case file to the PICU Sister with the nurses listening too.

While the PICO Sister-in-Charge was the head of PICU. Jessica, who was in charge of Mark’s care and other than the patient’s surgeon or another doctor intervenes, she was the primary carer for him as she was the Paediatric Critical Care’s Advanced Nurse Practitioner, she was ranked as a ‘Junior Doctor’ in the Nursing Department and can prescribe medication when needed. After satisfied with Mark, she left to go check on her other patients in Pediatrics. She was just entering the ward when someone ‘ran her over’ causing her to crash to the wall and then collapse on the floor. Yelping in pain as her left arm collided with the guard rail on the wall, she felt a snap in her lower arm and on the floor with her eyes shut, she was panting agony.

Oh Shit! Oh God! a male voice exclaimed as it came closer to her, lighting touching her right shoulder, it shouted Some help here! Wheelchair STAT! and a nurse down the passage see the man kneeling at Jessica, raced to grab the wheelchair parked at the side of the nurses' station and with the Paediatrics Sister-in-Charge, they raced towards them. Crap. I am so sorry, I slipped on the wet floor and crashed into you.

Jessica, still panting in pain, she opened her eyes and froze as her eyes merged with the gorgeously blue eyes, sinfully handsome face before her. Then after a bit, just as the Sister and nurse arrived, her with her heart thumping hard and loudly at this ‘god’ kneeling before her, her lungs screamed for air and she inhaled sharply, jolting her arm and causing her to yelp again in pain. In a space of a few minutes, Jessica trying not to look at him, she told them where the pain was and after helping her into the wheelchair and been administered some morphine for pain, Dr Thomas and the Paediatrics Nurse wheeled her to XRAY. Ten minutes later, with the Hospital Administrator arriving as it was a staff member injured, they reviewed the Xray and say Jessica’s ulnar was snapped off in the middle and would require an internal fixator (rod buried into the bone marrow to hold it securely together). With Jessica drowsy from the medication, they rushed her the just vacant operating room and with Dr Thomas volunteering, he went to wash while the theatre staff stripped their patient now sedated, covered,